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Rob Reid is a Lecturer for the Foundations of Education Department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. His specialty is children's literature, literature for adolescents, and storytelling. He is the author of four ALA Editions books: Cool Story Programs for the School Age Crowd, Something Funny Happened at the Library, Family Storytime, and Children's Jukebox, as well as articles for LibrarySparks, The Shy Librarian, School Library Journal, and the Children’s Literature Network. Rob has previously served as a youth services and special needs consultant for the Indianhead Federated Library System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and as a children's librarian for the Eau Claire Public Library and the Pueblo (CO) Library District. He received his master's degree in library science from the University of Minnesota and his bachelor's degree in English and Speech/Theater Education from Bemidji State University in northern Minnesota. In addition to teaching and writing, Rob visits schools and libraries as a children's humorist. He also travels across the country and Canada speaking to library and school organizations about children’s programming and making literature come alive for children. Rob was recently elected to the 2006 Newbery Award Committee and named as the 2004 Wisconsin Library Association’s Librarian of the Year. |
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Something Musical Happened at the Library In this book, I show ways to incorporate music in story programs. I match specific picture books with a specific song, have several story program lesson plans, and huge annotated bibliographies of children’s picture books that feature music and dance. |
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Children's Jukebox, Second Edition This book is a subject index of children’s recorded music featuring songs from nearly 550 children’s recordings. Need a song featuring bears? How about friendship? Songs sung in Russian? I also have a recommended must-have Core Collection of 46 children’s recordings and a list of my favorite original children’s songs. My all-time favorite children’s song is “Walk a Mile,” written by Jan Nigro of the group Vitamin L. |
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Storytime Slam: 15 Lesson Plans for These 15 lesson plans use a combination of reading aloud, storytelling, poetry/wordplay and musical/movement activities to get young children excited about books. Each lesson plan is designed as a 30-minute program that includes a few picture books and activities designed for heavy audience participation. You’ll find programs such as B is for Bulldozer, Just Ducky, No Jumping on the Bed!, Pets, Royalty and many more. Lists of back-up picture books offer flexibility within each program. |
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Cool Story Programs for the School-Age Crowd What kid wouldn’t love literary explorations of the stinky, creepy, and dirty? Throw in rats, witches, aliens, and underwear, and it’s irresistible. Yet few story times are designed for elementary school children, who are intent on separating themselves from younger siblings. Why aren’t there more events for these kids? It’s not a lack of great material insists librarian-humorist Reid, who builds upon his earlier ALA bestseller, Something Funny Happened at the Library (ALA Editions, 2002), to offer 18 new wacky and offbeat programs, guaranteed to delight this discerning younger audience. Each plan opens with a thumbnail overview, then draws on unusual combinations of poetry, picture books, chapter book excerpts, and short stories. The mix varies by theme, but all the programs touch the concerns, interests, and humor (Think: Captain Underpants) for this age group. Audience involvement includes wordplay, reader’s theater, dramatics, writing, music, sports, or crafts. Reid also illustrates how to tweak programs to appeal to younger (or older) audiences. Plans for fun story programs encompass: Catching Some Zzzzz's, A-1 Stories, Big and Bad in Four Separate Flavors, and Cool School, Alien School, and Don't Wanna Go to School! Designed to inspire public children’s librarians, school media staff, classroom teachers, and anyone who wants to help literature come alive for kids in grades K–4, Cool Story Programs is a proven, adaptable resource, and a must-have for libraries serving kids. |
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Something Funny Happened at the Library: This is how storyteller, librarian, and all-around jokester Rob Reid opens his delightful new book, Something Funny Happened at the Library. Wouldn't it be great if kids came home from the library holding their sides, eager to pass on the funny things they heard in the library that day? According to Reid, getting the attention of young people is to make them laugh. From easy-to-win-over preschoolers to unimpressed teens, this book will serve as your personal humor coach for even the toughest audiences out there. Being funny can be intimidating, but with tricks of the trade on how to warm up an audience, choose age-appropriate material, use facial and vocal expressions to lure them in, and select props, you're on your way to the comedy club. Young children won't be able to hold in their giggles after such programs as "The World's Worst Ice Cream Store," and intermediate age school kids will love to take part in book theme parties in honor of Captain Underpants or such special celebrations as "Boo Ha Ha." Even those middle and high school students, once convinced to participate in "Comedy Club" (a program that combines reading and "stand-up") or "Spoonerisms" (a wordplay game), will be rolling in the aisles. To enrich all of these programs, Reid also features the funniest ideas for readers' theater, how to host a lively library tour, and even rap songs that extol the virtues of reading and the library! An annotated bibliography lists more than 300 of the funniest books available, sorted by category and age, including picture books, fractured fairy tales, folklore, and the funniest children's authors and illustrators. A complete resource for getting children and young adults snickering and having fun in the stacks with innovative programming that uses humor, Something Funny helps you to connect with children and young adults and, along the way, make the library the hippest place in town! |
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Wave Goodbye Characters perform motor activities and exercise the entire body as they celebrate all the ways to wave goodbye by using elbows, lips, hair, and finally hands. Awards |
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Children's Jukebox Selects the best of contemporary recorded children’s songs and offers lively and entertaining ideas for their use in children’s programming. Approximately 2,400 children’s songs organized under some fifty popular themes. Each entry contains a song summary, age/grade levels, distributor information, and tested tips. Includes these valuable extras: Core Collection of 20 Top Recordings, Songs Featuring Sound Effects, and Select List of Children’s Music Videos. |
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