December 2007

JANET L. ROBINSON CURRICULUM RESOURCE CENTER

This is a terrific season to read!

A new display of over 116 books has been set up in the J.L.R. Curriculum Resource Center to provide the perfect literary accompaniment to this season for young readers. The fiction includes classics and new holiday stories while the non-fiction has everything from polar bear facts to how to celebrate Divali. How about reading How Grinch Who Stole Christmas in Latin this year? Did you know that the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is held every year to commemorate the rush of teams with serum to Nome, Alaska in 1925 to combat an outbreak of diphtheria? The Great Serum Race tells this story with wonderful illustrations by a man who has actually completed the race twice! The Stolen Sun is a beautiful Native Alaskan story about Raven and a brave little boy who rescued his people from total ice and darkness.

Why not introduce a young reader to a new winter book soon?

In doing so, we will surely enjoy our visit to the simplicity and joys of childhood, again…..