2008 Kids - Call for Ideas

Artist: Harry Bliss, an award-winning cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine, grew up in a family of successful painters and illustrators. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and illustration at The University of the Arts (BFA) and Syracuse University (MA). He is the illustrator of several best-selling children’s books including A Fine, Fine School (2001) by Sharon Creech, Diary of a Worm (2003) and Diary of a Spider (HarperCollins, 2005), both by Doreen Cronin. Mr. Bliss lives in Vermont.

2008 theme: Catch the Reading Bug

Chapters 1 & 2 Planning and Promoting

Chapter 3 Backyard Safari

Put on your straw pith helmet and and grab your collecting jar or net.
Possible programs/topics to cover:

Mosquitoes
Bug collecting, bugs as pets-also safari as in looking for bugs
Bug identification "What's That Bug?"
Ponds and polliwogs, frogs, toads, water bugs, fly fishing
Underground: worms, composting, Dig It!
Keep a backyard Nature Journal: Tracking Bugs.

Chapter 4 A Bug's Life

Science-y chapter. Make life-cycles, etc. fun
Possible programs/topics to cover:

Metamorphosis
Insect and pond ecology
beneficial bugs
attracting bugs
bug identification
state insects
insect camouflage
life cycles of butterflies
ladybugs, etc.

Chapter 5 Ants in My Pants and other creepy crawly critters.

Possible programs/topics to cover:

Ants
spiders
Picnic in the park
spider and other insect folklore (Ananse
Arachne
scarab beetles)
Spider Man
other crawling bugs

Chapter 6 What's That Fluttering?

Possible programs/topics to cover:

Flying Bugs. Dragonflies
House Flies
Butterflies
Fireflies
Ladybugs, etc.

Chapter 7 The Good, The Bad and the (B)ugly

Possible programs/topics to cover:

Gross bugs, edible bugs, scary bugs, killer bugs, bugs under the microsope, giant bugs, stink bugs, cockroaches. Also possibly what entomologists do. Also viruses as bugs?. Crime stopping bugs?
Insect (Horror) Film Festival with bug-tasting before hand.? Or YA
Crime fighting insects tie in with some of the insect detective books or chapter in Donna M. Jackson's The Bug Scientists.
Bugs and Crime-Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective and others

Chapter 8 Adult programs/Family Literacy Chapter

Possible ideas:

Create a butterfly garden, go on a field trip (insect hunting)
Catch the Reading Bug about__________
Nightime

California Summer Reading Program

The California Summer Reading Program is a project of the California Library Association supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) is the sponsoring organization for the 2007 Summer Library Program. Artwork is for use by CSLP members only. Copyright 2006-2007 by Highsmith Inc. All rights reserved. No images may be reproduced without written permission.



About Home Contact Us Calendar & Workshops Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 2007 Kids 2007 Teens 2007 Adults CLA Workshop Materials PR Media 2007 Order Form 2008 Teens 2009 Theme 2010 Theme 2006 "Paws, Claws, Scales & Tales" 2005 "Dragons Dreams & Daring Deeds"		Artist: Harry Bliss, an award-winning cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine, grew up in a family of successful painters and illustrators. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and illustration at The University of the Arts (BFA) and Syracuse University (MA). He is the illustrator of several best-selling children’s books including A Fine, Fine School (2001) by Sharon Creech, Diary of a Worm (2003) and Diary of a Spider (HarperCollins, 2005), both by Doreen Cronin. Mr. Bliss lives in Vermont. 2008 theme: Catch the Reading Bug Chapters 1 & 2 Planning and Promoting Chapter 3 Backyard Safari Put on your straw pith helmet and and grab your collecting jar or net. Possible programs/topics to cover: Mosquitoes Bug collecting, bugs as pets-also safari as in looking for bugs Bug identification "What's That Bug?" Ponds and polliwogs, frogs, toads, water bugs, fly fishing Underground: worms, composting, Dig It! Keep a backyard Nature Journal: Tracking Bugs. Chapter 4 A Bug's Life Science-y chapter. Make life-cycles, etc. fun Possible programs/topics to cover: Metamorphosis Insect and pond ecology beneficial bugs attracting bugs bug identification state insects insect camouflage life cycles of butterflies ladybugs, etc. Chapter 5 Ants in My Pants and other creepy crawly critters. Possible programs/topics to cover: Ants spiders Picnic in the park spider and other insect folklore (Ananse Arachne scarab beetles) Spider Man other crawling bugs Chapter 6 What's That Fluttering? Possible programs/topics to cover: Flying Bugs. Dragonflies House Flies Butterflies Fireflies Ladybugs, etc. Chapter 7 The Good, The Bad and the (B)ugly Possible programs/topics to cover: Gross bugs, edible bugs, scary bugs, killer bugs, bugs under the microsope, giant bugs, stink bugs, cockroaches. Also possibly what entomologists do. Also viruses as bugs?. Crime stopping bugs? Insect (Horror) Film Festival with bug-tasting before hand.? Or YA Crime fighting insects tie in with some of the insect detective books or chapter in Donna M. Jackson's The Bug Scientists. Bugs and Crime-Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective and others Chapter 8 Adult programs/Family Literacy Chapter Possible ideas: Create a butterfly garden, go on a field trip (insect hunting) Catch the Reading Bug about__________ Nightime
California Summer Reading Program The California Summer Reading Program is a project of the California Library Association supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) is the sponsoring organization for the 2007 Summer Library Program. Artwork is for use by CSLP members only. Copyright 2006-2007 by Highsmith Inc. All rights reserved. No images may be reproduced without written permission.