{"id":11742,"date":"2013-04-15T01:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T06:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=11742"},"modified":"2013-04-12T16:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T21:28:46","slug":"kidding-around-in-the-library-with-childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/11742","title":{"rendered":"Kidding Around in the Library with Children’s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

In celebration of the Week of the Young Child<\/a>\u2122, Andersen Library sends an extra shout out to the UW-Whitewater Children\u2019s Center staff<\/a>\u00a0and intern students who nurture our littlest UW-W community members. They are our local heroes, cultivating early reading habits in many ways, one of those by making the special trek to Andersen Library with their classes for story times and free reading. Have you read a little one a book lately? If you\u2019re like me, you have favorites from \u201cback when\u201d that you can\u2019t wait to share again and again.\u00a0Cat in the Hat <\/em>is one of my earliest reading memories. Does\u00a0Andersen Library\u00a0have a copy? Sure does<\/a>!\u00a0Are there other books like it if I wanted to pull together a collection of similarly themed books for a reading corner, a teaching unit, or just for fun? And who is this Pete the Cat<\/a>\u00a0character that I keep hearing about?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Let\u2019s find out by using NoveList K-8<\/a><\/strong>, the kid sibling of NoveList and also a Badgerlink resource available to all Wisconsin residents. I can search for Stop that Ball!<\/em> by title, and find recommendations for read-alikes. I also notice that I can browse books that share qualities of\u00a0Cat in the Hat<\/em>\u00a0such as \u201cstories in rhyme<\/a>.\u201d I might\u00a0browse through\u00a0the genres\u00a0to\u00a0\u201cchildren\u2019s poetry<\/a>\u201d and find just the one for\u00a0an aspiring reader or just the right collection for celebrating Poetry Month. NoveList K-8 also includes many picture book extenders to help build your story time activities. These are great time savers!<\/p>\n

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Children\u2019s Literature <\/span>Comprehensive\u00a0 Database<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0*(CLCD) is another excellent resource for pointing parents, teachers and adults to books to use for specific interest and reading levels, and includes full-text reviews from 27 sources of reviews including Madison’s\u00a0Cooperative Children’s Book Center. CLCD is getting ready to roll out a new interface and new services<\/a>*. Besides finding 7 full-text reviews for Splat the Cat<\/em>, you will find themed book lists<\/a>* which are added monthly. Also new\u00a0to CCLD will be\u00a0a live WorldCat connection; look for Splat the Cat<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in the new interface<\/a>*,\u00a0click the WorldCat tab,\u00a0and\u00a0when the new site is fully functional\u00a0you will be able to\u00a0see whether Andersen Library has the book without performing a separate HALCat search. Isn’t that just the cat’s meow?<\/p>\n

As always, if you\u2019d like assistance with finding additional materials, please ask a librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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*When the new CCLD site becomes active, the links to the beta site will no longer be funtional, so you will need to use the link from the\u00a0library’s\u00a0A-Z Databases<\/a>\u00a0listing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In celebration of the Week of the Young Child\u2122, Andersen Library sends an extra shout out to the UW-Whitewater Children\u2019s Center staff\u00a0and intern students who nurture our littlest UW-W community members. They are our local heroes, cultivating early reading habits … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,1065],"tags":[13961,41287,941,119],"class_list":["post-11742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-featured-resource","tag-book-reviews","tag-childrens-literature","tag-childrens-books","tag-databases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11742"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11749,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11742\/revisions\/11749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}