Lemoncello is Howe-Manning MCBA Winner!

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein ran away with 4th and 5th grade votes to be this year's choice for the MCBA award.  Grade 6 students chose 2nd place winner Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate came in third. All votes have been sent to Salem State University.  We anxiously await the announcement of the statewide winner!

Leprechauns in the Library!

A few little leprechauns visited the library this week!  Howe-Manning preschool students, all adorned in green and ear to ear Irish smiles, paraded up to the library for a St. Patrick's Day story. 

Howe-Manning Celebrates Read Across America!

The Howe-Manning Library hosted a school wide Book Swap and "Book Tasting" this month to celebrate Read Across America week. Students had a great time sharing books with their peers and sampling books from our delectable menu.  The special of the week was Series Fiction with a sprinkling of Expository Nonfiction.  The students were very happy with their menu selections; and the added bonus of seeing a spike in circulation after such an event made me very happy!:)

2016 Caldecott and Newbery Winner Announced

Howe-Manning students anxiously awaited the announcement of the very prestigious Caldecott and Newbery Award winners.  Mrs. Jones's fourth grade class was lucky enough to view the announcment LIVE! VERY exciting!

The winner of the 2016 Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book for children went to...

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

 by Lindsay Mattick; illustrated by Sophie Blackall

The winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to children's literature went to...

Last Stop on Market Street

 by Matt de la Pena; illustrated by Christian Robinson

Also....
A 2016 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children’s Book of 2015
A Wall Street Journal Best Children’s Book of 2015

And the winner is....

Students had a great time evaluating picture books for this year's Howe-Mannicott Award. The winner of this year's Howe-Mannicott Award for best picture book went to...

Wolfie the Bunny

Written by Ame Dyckman; Illustrated by Zachariah OHora

 

Ringing in the New Year with the ALA Youth Media Awards

The Youth Media Awards will be announced on the morning of January 11th during ALA's midwinter conference!  This is always an exciting time of year for Howe-Manning students!  We build up to the event with our own Mock Caldecott appropriately called the Howe-Mannicott award.  Students examine several books published in 2015 and, based on several criteria, try to predict the Caldecott and Newbery winners.  So...who will win the 2016 Caldecott Medal awarded for the most distinguished illustrations in a children's picture book? There are some great contenders this year.  Here are a few.  Click on the book covers for more information!

Here are a few contenders for the John Newbery Medal awarded to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Database of the Month: Gale's Research in Context

Gale recently expanded its suite of databases to include a resource designed just for middle school students in Grades 6-8. This is a great authoritative, cross-disciplinary, and curriculum aligned research tool.

Categories cover the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. history, sports, world history, geography, literature, science, and social issues.

Engaging reference, periodical, and multimedia content includes books, images, biographies, audio, video, magazines, newspapers, creative works, primary sources, and more!

This database is offered free of charge to member libraries of the Massachusetts Library System and may be accessed from the Howe-Manning website on my specialist web page.