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Suggested Readings:

Raising a Reader: A Mother’s Tale of Desperation and Delight

By: Jennie Nash


"Raising a Reader is for every parent who ever worried about a child's reading, who compared one child with another, who charted, prodded, prompted, and coaxed words into little mouths and minds. For any parent -- timid, pushy, or frightened--who has a child entering school and literary, this is the book for you.”

--Jim Trelease, author of The Read Aloud Handbook



How to talk so Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk

By: Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish



"Practical, sensible, lucid the approaches Faber and Mazlish lay out are so logical you wonder why you read them with such a burst of discovery." -- Family Journal


"The parenting bible." -- Boston Globe




Access PA - Access PA provides a wide variety of databases for adults and children, including EBSCO Animals, Booksource, NoveList, Facts For Learning, Searchasaurus, SIRS Discoverer and more! This service can be accessed from your public library home page and by using your Pennsylvania public library card.

Public Library Home Pages and the Links to the Access PA log-in pages:

FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA :
http://libwww.library.phila.gov - library site
http://www.powerlibrary.net/Remote/Remote.asp?ID=Philadelphia - database link

MONTGOMERY COUNTY LIBRARIES : http://www.mclinc.org - library site
http://www.powerlibrary.net/Remote/Remote.asp?ID=MCLINC - database link

BUCKS COUNTY LIBRARIES :
http://www.buckslib.org/ - library site
http://www.powerlibrary.net/Remote/Remote.asp?ID=BucksCounty - database link

IF YOU LIVE IN A DIFFERENT COUNTY FIND YOUR LIBRARY HERE:
http://www.publiclibraries.com/pennsylvania.htm

Literature Links

Newbery Award Winning Books

Caldecott Award Winning Books

Coretta Scott King Award Winning Books

The American Library Association's ALSC Notable Books for Children

Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) List of Award Winning Books

Booklist Editors' Choice

The American Library Association's List of Authors and Illustrators

The American Library's Assocation's List of Favorite Children's Stories

Search Directories and Search Engines

Google - http://www.google.com.com/

Vivisimo - http://vivisimo.com/

American Library Association's Great Web Sites For Kids!  http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm

Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org

Librarians' Index to the Internet: http://lii.org


General Links

Great Websites for Kids: http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm - Recommended sites compiled by the American Library Association on a wide variety of topics such as Animals, History, Math, Science, Literature, the Arts, Geography and more.

USA Gov: http://www.usa.gov/- The United States Government's Official Web Portal

Catholic Saints and Angels: http://www.catholic.org/saints/ - Largest collection of saints and angels information

Patron Saints Index - http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/patron02.htm

Montessori Links

American Montessori Society: http://www.amshq.org

The Montessori Foundation: http://www.montessori.org


Links for Educators and Parents

The Educators' Reference Desk: http://www.eduref.org - Links, lesson plans, and the ERIC database

The Learning Page: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu - Sponsored by the Library of Congress, this site offers lesson plans, access to American Memories, and more

The Children's Literature Web Guide: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html - Recommended books, links to authors, award-winners and more

Resources For Children and Parents: http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/forchildren/childrenfamilies.htm - Information and links compiled by the Association for Library Service to Children, a divisoin of the American Library Association

Net Smartz - http://www.netsmartz.org/- tips for parents and educators on cyber safety

Questions for the librarian? Send an email to Miss Craige at scraige@norfon.org.


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