Children's Corner

Story Time and Toddler Time

Toddler Times, which are designed for the aged 2 and under crowd, will be held on Tuesdays at 10:10am for 20 minutes.

Story Times are 30-minute programs for 3 to 5 year olds and will be held on Fridays at 11:00am.

Conducted by library staff and volunteers, these fun-filled sessions are free and open to the public. We combine stories, dance, flannel-boards, puppets, fingerplays and more to encourage a love of books and learning. Little ones must be accompanied by a caregiver. For more information, please call 755-7169.

Youth Advisory Board Information

Q: What is a Youth Advisory Board?

A: A panel of young adults who help choose library materials, participate in programs, and help plan fun programs!!

Q: Why should YOU be on the Youth Advisory Board?

1. A chance for you to become more involved in the community.
2. Meet other people your own age.
3. Help the Library choose books you want to read!
4. Plan crafts and activities that interests you.

Please call or email Stephanie Harrell (755-7169, ext 4 or s.harrell@northloganlibrary.org) if you're interested!

2008 Award Winners

2008 Newbery Medal Winner

The 2008 Newbery Medal winner is Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (author) and Robert Byrd (illustrator)

Thirteenth-century England springs to life using 21 dramatic individual narratives that introduce young inhabitants of village and manor; from Hugo, the lord's nephew, to Nelly, the sniggler. Schlitz's elegant monologues and dialogues draw back the curtain on the period, revealing character and relationships, hinting at stories untold. Explanatory interludes add information and round out this historical and theatrical presentation. (Descriptions from ALA website.)

2008 Newbery Honor Books
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

In Elijah of Buxton, Elijah is the first free-born child in Buxton, a Canadian community of escaped slaves, in 1860. With masterful storytelling, vibrant humor, and poignant insight into the realities of slavery and the meaning of freedom, Curtis takes readers on a journey that transforms a “fra-gile” 11-year-old boy into a courageous hero.

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

In The Wednesday Wars, seventh-grader, Holling Hoodhood, is convinced his teacher hates him. Through their Wednesday afternoon Shakespeare sessions she helps him cope with events both wildly funny and deadly serious. “To thine own self be true” is just one of the life lessons he learns.

Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam)

Feathers tells the story of how a new boy's arrival in a sixth-grade classroom helps Frannie recognize the barriers that separate people, and the importance of hope as a bridge. Transcendent imagery and lyrical prose deftly capture a girl learning to navigate the world through words.

2008 Caldecott Medal Winner

The 2008 Caldecott Medal winner is The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick 

This marks the first time a children's novel (rather than a picture book) has ever won the Caldecott Medal! As soon as you pick this book up you'll see why.

From an opening shot of the full moon setting over an awakening Paris in 1931, this tale casts a new light on the picture book form. Hugo is a young orphan secretly living in the walls of a train station where he labors to complete a mysterious invention left by his father. In a work of more than 500 pages, the suspenseful text and wordless double-page spreads narrate the tale in turns. Neither words nor pictures alone tell this story, which is filled with cinematic intrigue. Black & white pencil illustrations evoke the flickering images of the silent films to which the book pays homage.

2008 Caldecott Honor Books
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad  by  Ellen Levine (author) and Kadir Nelson (illustrator)

Inspired by an antique lithograph, Kadir Nelson has created dramatically luminous illustrations that portray Henry “Box” Brown's ingenious design to ship himself in a box from slavery to freedom.

First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Laura Vaccaro Seeger's innovative concept book on transformations, First the Egg uses strategically placed die-cuts to provide an astonishing visual explication of the word “then.” Her richly textured brushstrokes creatively reveal the process of metamorphosis for young readers.

The Wall: Growing up behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, a graphic memoir of Sís's youth in Prague, brilliantly weds artistic and design choices to content: tight little panels with officious lines and red punctuation; full-bleed line-and-watercolor spreads of nightmares and dreams; color and absence of color.

Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems

Willems sets the stage for one of the most dramatic double-paged spreads in picture-book history in Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity. Masterful photo collages take Trixie and her daddy through their now-familiar Brooklyn neighborhood to the Pre-K class where Trixie discovers that her beloved Knuffle Bunny is not “so one-of-a-kind anymore.”

2008 Coretta Scott King Award

Honors a black author and a black illustrator for an outstanding, inspirational, and educational contribution to literature for children and young people.

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

2008 Coretta Scott King Honor Books

Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammed Ali by Charles R. Smith, Jr,

November Blues by Sharon M. Draper,

Let it Shine by Ashley Bryan

The Secret Olivia Told Me by N. Joy (author) and Nancy Devard (illustrator)

2008 Michael J. Printz Award

Honors literary excellence in books for young adults

The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

2008 Michael J. Printz Honor Books

Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox

One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clark

Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins

Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill