6/22/2023 0 Comments Images of library books![]() I love how the main character shows a love of reading AND a good habit of putting his book in the same place every night. Debbie Ridpath Ohi has created printable activity pages that you can download here. What could be happening? Not only does Spencer solve the mystery, he also finds a way to solve the problem of the missing books AND establish a library for his new squirrel friends. She wrote and illustrated Where Are My Books?, and I love this picture book for library orientation! Spencer enjoys reading a book every night at bedtime and putting it back in its place, but suddenly books are missing, with tiny gifts in their place. I hope you already know and love the work of illustrator Debbie Ridpath Ohi. Where Are My Books? by Debbie Ridpath Ohi After sharing Jake’s adventures, you can read the page at the end which reviews book care with pictures. Jake pays for the book, the librarian smiles and lets him check out more books. ![]() Poor Jake’s library book has jelly drips, mouse licks, and dog chews. Let them join you in the “woof, woof,” “meow, meow” “squeak, squeak,” oh, gross” and “oh, no,” and you’re already building a community of readers. This story is based on the cumulative folk tale, The House That Jack Built, with repetition and animal sounds to engage your young library learners. The Book That Jake Borrowed by Susan Kralovansky I have included Amazon affiliate links, which means that if you purchase through the link, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. These are my eight favorite library orientation picture books. I prefer to start the school year with brief instructions about how we take care of our library books, with more time spent enjoying a really fun story together. But I realized that I was putting students on the defensive before we even had a chance to build a relationship. I used to begin the school year with lots of rules about how to treat books and when to return them. When I think about how I want to start the school year with students, especially in the challenging fall of 2020, I think about this quote from Brené Brown in Dare to Lead: “What we can do, and what we are ethically called to do, is create a space in our schools and classrooms where all students can walk in and, for that day or hour, take off the crushing weight of their armor, hang it on a rack, and open their heart to truly being seen.” I believe the library should be a safe and happy place where our students can lay down their protective armor and connect, heart to heart. These are images of hope, as much as of disaster, and they speak to the idea that the things most fundamental to a culture-in this case, its codified knowledge-have not been lost.Hi, friends! My favorite part of Library Orientation is sharing great picture books to get the school year off to the very best start! Let’s talk about eight recent titles that your students will love to share with you! In many of these photos, we can easily envision someone coming along to set things right. We hope that the libraries' caretakers are safe, and, in the buildings where only the books, not the shelves, have tumbled, we reassure ourselves that they are. But the images also allow us to glimpse the destruction in a relatively benign environment-books are not people. Books shaken to the floor provide a good visual measurement of the power of the quake: we can easily visualize how the rows looked before, how nice and tidy they were, and we can imagine the sort of force needed to dislodge them. I think it has to do with what is not shown in the pictures more than with what is. Why libraries?, I wondered, as I scrolled through the images. Twitter has been flooded with pictures of local branches and university stacks, and you can view many of them on the Web site ( here’s a link to the Google-translated page). Among the many things the Japanese people are mourning this week are their libraries.
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