Kids Click

Now is your chance to vote! Each year preschool through kindergarten age children vote to select the winner of the Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award. The nominees are chosen because they are excellent read aloud books. Copies of each nominee are on display at your library. Every child that reads or listens to at least 5 of the 10 nominees may vote. Every child that votes is eligible to win a book to keep for their very own. Don’t forget that you can reserve the nominees online by using the online library catalog on our website: www.youranswerplace.org .

We will be having many special programs highlighting the Building Block nominees and also using them at many of our outreach visits. Every child that listens to at least 5 of the 10 nominees may vote. Check out my blogroll for the link to our Children’s Programs and to the Building Block Award site for more information. Here is a list of the nominees:

Building Block Nominees                                                                  

2007 Nominess

Starry Safari byLinda Ashman

Move Over, Rover by Karen Beaumont

A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom

Dooby Dooby Moo by Doreen Cronin & Betsy Lewin

Wiggle by Doreen Cronin

Cha-Cha Chimps by Julia Durango

Snowball Fight! by Jimmy Fallon

Looking for a Moose by Phyllis Root

Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems

Sakes Alive!; a Cattle Drive by Karma Wilson

It’s true! The library is going to the birds! Well, maybe the Bird Sanctuary is coming to the library. Check out the exciting programs presented by the World Bird Sanctuary at three of our libraries. You’ll learn lots about birds through songs, touchables and live birds. Wings for Tots will be held at the Spencer Road Branch Library on Monday, September 24 at 11:00 a.m. and at the Corporate Parkway Library on Monday, September 24 at 1:00 p.m. The Wild Bird Sanctuary Sing a Long will be at the Kisker Road Branch Library on Thursday, September 27 at 11:00 a.m. The programs are recommended for Preschool – Grade 3 and of course families are welcome. For more information on how to register for these feathery flings go to our webpage, www.youranswerplace.org and click on the Library Programs button. While you are there, check out all of our special programs that we will be having this fall; magicians, films, favorite book characters and lots more that I will be highlighting soon.