by Miranda Galbraith | Apr 14, 2016 | Teen Zone |
The Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in sixteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on the Thursday of National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year.
Readers ages twelve to eighteen will vote online between August 15 and Teen Read Week™ (October 9-15, 2016) here on the Teens’ Top Ten site. The winners will be announced the week after Teen Read Week.
View a list of the nominees with annotations here. (PDF)
How many have you read?
by Miranda Galbraith | Apr 11, 2016 | Teen Parties |
Come celebrate with us on Friday, April 15 starting at 7:00 pm in the Community Room. We’ll have food, fun and prizes! Bring your friends! All kids ages 12 through 18 are welcome.
by Rebekah Layton | Mar 11, 2016 | Blog |
In today’s world, odds are you know at least a few words in a language other than English, whether you picked up a few things from Dora the Explorer or you’re fluently bilingual—maybe English isn’t even your first language.
Did you know the Madison Library District owns a variety of materials in foreign languages? From classic and contemporary literature to films, at least 20 languages are represented, including Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, and Taiwanese. We have both translations of popular works, like the Harry Potter series and What to Expect When You’re Expecting, and classics in their original languages, like The Adventures of Pinocchio and Don Quixote.
Until now, these books have been incorporated into our junior, young adult, and general non-fiction collections. With three different places to look for a book in a foreign language, it was hard to tell what we had to offer. Many people may not have realized we have foreign language books at all.
In an effort to make it easier for our patrons to search and browse all the foreign language books we have available, the books are being relabeled and will be shelved together in one place. In recent weeks, visitors to the children’s section may have noticed that the junior audiobooks and DVDs have migrated to the shelves between the Community Room and the Activity Room. Over the next few weeks, our foreign language collection will be moving into the vacated space on the north wall next to the junior non-fiction. The move will happen in batches as we finish recataloging. The books will be organized by language first, then subdivided into fiction and non-fiction and by age group, mirroring the filing of books in our other collections.
The foreign language DVDs will remain in the general DVD collection. Instructional materials such as dictionaries, grammar guides, and lessons on audiobook will remain in the 400 section of the junior, young adult, and general non-fiction collections.
To browse all of our offerings in a given language in our catalog, do a subject search using the phrasing “Spanish language materials” or “German language materials,” inserting the language of your choice. This will display all books and movies available in that language. Our newest materials can be found under the New Titles tab in the online catalog.
As we build up this special collection, we would like to hear from our patrons which languages they are most interested in having us obtain or expand. Visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/Madisonlib.org to vote for or to suggest a language, or come into the library to cast your ballot.
by Vivian Milius | Feb 20, 2016 | Tween Scene, Tween STEAM |
Tweens ages 9 – 11 will cover a light-switch plate with their own design using washi tape on Thursday, February 25th at 4:00 in the Activity Room. All materials will be provided by the library. Go to this link to see an example: http://washitapecrafts.com/2013/06/easy-washi-tape-switch-plates/
by Betsy Cutts | Feb 16, 2016 | Teen Zone |
A fairy tale might be the first story that you remember hearing as a child. That story might also be different from the stories that children are hearing today. Fairy tales are constantly changing as they are being retold and the stories that you might hear today are very different from when they were first written down, but as long as the story is similar it is still called a fairy tale.
Would it surprise you to know that the princess in Sleeping Beauty isn’t named Aurora? In Charles Perrault’s telling of The Sleeping Beauty, the princess remained nameless for the story. Grimm’s version does give the princess a name, but it isn’t Aurora, it’s Rosamund. The name Aurora that is used in the Disney cartoon came from the daughter of the nameless princess.
Then, would it surprise you that the princess was not raised by fairies, but by her own parents? The princess was blessed by the fairies in BOTH stories, but then she was raised by her own parents.
These stories have been evolving for centuries and have recently become a very popular genre for young adults called Fractured Fairy Tales. That is when the familiar story is changed by altering the storyline, the characters, or even by combining several stories that are not usually put together.
Fairy tales are in the non-fiction section of the library under the call numbers NF 398.2, J 398.2, and in the fiction section by author.
Some authors to look for are Donna Jo Napoli, Shannon Hale, Jessica Day George, Robin McKinley, Marissa Meyer, Alex Flinn and many others.
by Vivian Milius | Feb 9, 2016 | Staff Picks |
“Snowed Inn” by Kate Palmer, as enjoyed by librarian Vivian Milius
Snowed Inn by Kate Palmer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Three years have lapsed since Jayne watched Forrest board a plane and step out of her life. Imagine her chagrin when he steps through the door of the family ranch restaurant she runs offering to help with the holiday community fundraiser. She lays down some ground rules if they are going to work together.
Romance, mystery, and a good dose of western ambiance make for a quick and satisfying read.
