Wow! The conversations about our jobs have been fast and
furious this week. I've been having a blast reading and digesting
them all.
For a quick lull, I wanted to remind people who live in driving
distance of New Jersey that my all-new 23rd Annual "Winners!"
Conference is coming up in 3 short weeks. (Every year, in mid-May,
as my husband and I drive past The Pines on Rt. 27 in Edison, he says,
"Look, Jude, The Pines!--only 50 more weeks until next year's Winners!"
And somehow, that year slides by so fast, I don't know where it disappears.)
As Bud Caldwell says in Christopher Paul Curtis's Bud Not Buddy,
"Here we go again!"
Need a break from worrying about your jobs? "Winners!" is a one-day
networking extravaganza, a book vacation spa sabbatical day
where we librarians and teachers and other children's book lovers
fool around with the 100+ best and most astonishing children's books
of the past year, grades K-6, and explore utterly practical and fun ways
to use them with the people for whom they were intended--actual kids.
We'll laugh a lot, breathe deeply, eat a fabulous lunch
(with the most wonderful desserts--start dieting now . . .),
and recharge our professional batteries.
This year we'll consider: Lucky's scrotum problems, a bad bunny
who needs to learn to love, a kid who picks up a strange camera
at the Jersey shore, a girl who gets in big trouble for giving
a haircut to her friend, a mouse who saves the day at her
teacher's wedding, how to learn to walk, what to do when a lion
stays for library story hour, and how 4 young lads with annoying
personalities saved the day when they grew up. We'll tell stories,
put on a play, sing songs, look at creative ways children have
looked at literature this year, find out why a factory job is not
as fun as working with kids, go on a lion hunt, learn what the word
"galaxy" means in Greek, see what happened the day the Martians
invaded New Jersey, and meet Elvis Pigsley and some other Animal Idols.
The gorgeous brand new 250-page Winners Handbook is finished
and at the printers (whew!). And now I'm packing up all my books
and handouts and putting my notes together for my favorite week
of the whole year. If you are desperately in need of a day to unwind
and remember why you got in this business in the first place--
because you love kids and the books they read--we'll be whooping it up
in Voorhees on May 1, Whippany on May 2, and in Edison
(right down the road from my house!) on May 3 and 4.
To find out more, it's all on the Libraries Unlimited website:
<www.LU.com/winners>. (And please tell your teachers so they can come, too.)
Wahoo! I can't wait!
Judy Freeman
Children's Literature Consultant
"Wild About Books" columnist, School Library Media Activities Monthly
Author of the all new Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3
(Libraries Unlimited, 2006; www.LU.com)
65 North Sixth Avenue
Highland Park, NJ 08904
732-572-5634 / BKWSSF@aol.com
www.JudyReadsBooks.com
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