I love quilts. My grandmother was a quilt maker. She made quilts for family and friends. When I was a baby my grandmother made a quilt for me. It is a beautiful flower garden. This pattern has six sided patches and edged with pale pink cloth. It is a beautiful reminder of my grandmother who died many years ago.
I also included in my storytimes my love of quilts. For second grade I read
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco. For an activity the second graders made a quilt collage cutting out pictures from catalogs. The quilt is a nine square with each square being 2". I made 2" templates from oaktag. Awhile ago I have limited space in the library to show the students work so I would make a "clothesline" with yarn and taped it to the shelves. Then, I would hang the quilts with small clothespins. It was a great activity. I would collect catalogs from Oriental Trading, Colorful Images, Upstart, and Demco. When we moved to a big beautiful library I also did the same story time but made the "clotheslines" and quilts on our large bulletin board.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Here is our Book Club selections for November through February Book Selections.
I also added our other books for consideration in the future.
November through February Book Selections Plus More
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time,
Christopher Boone is a fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a great deal about math and very little about human beings. When he finds his neighbor’s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his world upside down. 240p.
www.readinggroupguides.com/.../curious_incident_dog1.asp
December Selection- Norma
Pearlman, Ann, The Christmas Cookie Club, Twelve closest girlfriends gather in the evening with batches of beautifully wrapped homemade cookies. Everyone has to bring a dessert. http://books.simonandschuster.com/Christmas-Cookie-Club/Ann-Pearlman/9781439158845/reading_group_guide - 55k - 274p.
January-Ellen
Hiassen, Carl, Skinny Dip, Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who does t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he’s found a way doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner into the night-dark Atlantic. Unfortunately for Chaz, his wife doesn’t die in the fall. 512p.ary
February -Kris
Lupton, Rosamund, Sister, When her mom calls to tell her that Tess, her younger sister, is missing, Bee returns home to London on the first flight. She expects to find Tess and give her the usual lecture, the bossy big sister scolding her flighty baby sister for taking off without letting anyone know her plans. 366p. www.rosamundlupton.com Check under Sister and go Reading Group Questions.
Pilcher, Rosamund, Winter Solstice, Elfrida Phipps's untroubled life in a Hampshire village is cut to shreds when members of her neighbor's family die in a car crash, but, in a way this tragedy redeems her life. The warmth of this English domestic novel is reinforced by its closely delineated characters. Even Horace, the faithful dog, comes alive for us. 512p.
Simonson, Helen, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Retired British Army Officer Major Ernest Pettigrew has learned that his only brother has died. The doorbell rings Mrs. Ali, Pakistani shopkeeper has come to the door to collect the newspaper bill. She touched by his grief, she leads him into the living room and makes a cup of tea and offers him words of Comfort. A friendship blossoms. 384p.www.litlovers.com/.../13.../610-major-pettigrews-last-stand-simonson
Skloot, Rebecca, The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks, a poor Southern tobacco farmer, was buried in an unmarked grave sixty years ago. Yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medical research. Known to science as HeLa, the first "immortal" human cells grown in culture are still alive today, and have been bought and sold by the millions. Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to East Baltimore today, where Henrietta's family struggles with her legacy. 381p.www.gobigread.wisc.edu/Discussion-Toolkit/Questions2011.pdf
Patchett, Ann, State of Wonder, When her co-worker dies in the Amazon Marina Singh, a pharmaceutical researcher, retraces his step to find out what exactly happened.www.litlovers.com/reading guides
Verghese, Abraham, Cutting for Stone, This first novel involves the trials of a medical family caught up in the turmoil of Ethiopia. 560p. www.litlovers.com/reading guides
Goodwin, Daisy, The American Heiress, Cora Cash is a spirited heiress who travel to England at the turn of the 19th century to find a titled husband. 480p
Stone, Robert, A Flag for Sunrise, is an emotional, dramatic and philosophical novel about Americans drawn into a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. and philosophical novel about Americans drawn into a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. 448p.
Walls, Jeannette, The Glass Castle. This is Jeannette Walls’s award-winning memoir of resilience amid a deeply dysfunctional childhood. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want to responsibility of raising a family. 304p. www.litlovers.com/readingguides
Walls, Jeannette, Half Broke Horses, a True-Life Novel, Lily Casey Smith, this novel's feisty Texas protagonist, is a frontier teacher, a rancher, a rodeo rider, a poker player, and bootlegger.288p. www.litlovers.com/readingguides
Blum, Jenna, Those who Save Us A professor’s mother refuses to talk to her daughter about her life in Germany during WWII, even though the daughter is interviewing survivors and writing a book. 496p. ReadingGroupGuides.com
Mullen, Thomas, The Last Town on Earth Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced–the 1918 flu epidemic. 432p.
ReadingGroupGuides.com
Monroe, Mary Alice Time is a River Breast cancer survivor Mia Landan returns home to find her husband in bed with another woman. Still weak from the cancer treatments, and not ready to make decisions about her failed marriage, Mia asks Belle Carson, a fly-fishing guide and the head of Casting for Recovery, if she can stay in Belle’s isolated mountain cabin. 384p.books.simonschuster.com
Roberts, Shelia, Love in Bloom, A funny, inspiring women's fiction novel about three women who share neighboring plots in a community garden and change each other's lives forever. 366p. readinggroupguides.com
Roberts, Shelia, Small Change, "At their weekly craft group meeting, Rachel, Jessica and Tiffany admit they share a difficult secret: they're all struggling with major financial problems. 352p.ReadingGroupGuides
Strout, Elizabeth, Olive Kitteridge, Olive Kitteridge is the kind of woman you would duck across the street to avoid meeting. She's abrasive as sandpaper rubbed across a scab and unapologetically rude. Now retired, she taught seventh-grade math in the small Maine town of Crosby for years, earning a reputation as the mean teacher who leaves her students flustered and trembling. 304p. http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/13-fiction
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I also added our other books for consideration in the future.
November through February Book Selections Plus More
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time,
Christopher Boone is a fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a great deal about math and very little about human beings. When he finds his neighbor’s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his world upside down. 240p.
www.readinggroupguides.com/.../curious_incident_dog1.asp
December Selection- Norma
Pearlman, Ann, The Christmas Cookie Club, Twelve closest girlfriends gather in the evening with batches of beautifully wrapped homemade cookies. Everyone has to bring a dessert. http://books.simonandschuster.com/Christmas-Cookie-Club/Ann-Pearlman/9781439158845/reading_group_guide - 55k - 274p.
January-Ellen
Hiassen, Carl, Skinny Dip, Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who does t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he’s found a way doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner into the night-dark Atlantic. Unfortunately for Chaz, his wife doesn’t die in the fall. 512p.ary
February -Kris
Lupton, Rosamund, Sister, When her mom calls to tell her that Tess, her younger sister, is missing, Bee returns home to London on the first flight. She expects to find Tess and give her the usual lecture, the bossy big sister scolding her flighty baby sister for taking off without letting anyone know her plans. 366p. www.rosamundlupton.com Check under Sister and go Reading Group Questions.
Pilcher, Rosamund, Winter Solstice, Elfrida Phipps's untroubled life in a Hampshire village is cut to shreds when members of her neighbor's family die in a car crash, but, in a way this tragedy redeems her life. The warmth of this English domestic novel is reinforced by its closely delineated characters. Even Horace, the faithful dog, comes alive for us. 512p.
Simonson, Helen, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Retired British Army Officer Major Ernest Pettigrew has learned that his only brother has died. The doorbell rings Mrs. Ali, Pakistani shopkeeper has come to the door to collect the newspaper bill. She touched by his grief, she leads him into the living room and makes a cup of tea and offers him words of Comfort. A friendship blossoms. 384p.www.litlovers.com/.../13.../610-major-pettigrews-last-stand-simonson
Skloot, Rebecca, The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks, a poor Southern tobacco farmer, was buried in an unmarked grave sixty years ago. Yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medical research. Known to science as HeLa, the first "immortal" human cells grown in culture are still alive today, and have been bought and sold by the millions. Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to East Baltimore today, where Henrietta's family struggles with her legacy. 381p.www.gobigread.wisc.edu/Discussion-Toolkit/Questions2011.pdf
Patchett, Ann, State of Wonder, When her co-worker dies in the Amazon Marina Singh, a pharmaceutical researcher, retraces his step to find out what exactly happened.www.litlovers.com/reading guides
Verghese, Abraham, Cutting for Stone, This first novel involves the trials of a medical family caught up in the turmoil of Ethiopia. 560p. www.litlovers.com/reading guides
Goodwin, Daisy, The American Heiress, Cora Cash is a spirited heiress who travel to England at the turn of the 19th century to find a titled husband. 480p
Stone, Robert, A Flag for Sunrise, is an emotional, dramatic and philosophical novel about Americans drawn into a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. and philosophical novel about Americans drawn into a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. 448p.
Walls, Jeannette, The Glass Castle. This is Jeannette Walls’s award-winning memoir of resilience amid a deeply dysfunctional childhood. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want to responsibility of raising a family. 304p. www.litlovers.com/readingguides
Walls, Jeannette, Half Broke Horses, a True-Life Novel, Lily Casey Smith, this novel's feisty Texas protagonist, is a frontier teacher, a rancher, a rodeo rider, a poker player, and bootlegger.288p. www.litlovers.com/readingguides
Blum, Jenna, Those who Save Us A professor’s mother refuses to talk to her daughter about her life in Germany during WWII, even though the daughter is interviewing survivors and writing a book. 496p. ReadingGroupGuides.com
Mullen, Thomas, The Last Town on Earth Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced–the 1918 flu epidemic. 432p.
ReadingGroupGuides.com
Monroe, Mary Alice Time is a River Breast cancer survivor Mia Landan returns home to find her husband in bed with another woman. Still weak from the cancer treatments, and not ready to make decisions about her failed marriage, Mia asks Belle Carson, a fly-fishing guide and the head of Casting for Recovery, if she can stay in Belle’s isolated mountain cabin. 384p.books.simonschuster.com
Roberts, Shelia, Love in Bloom, A funny, inspiring women's fiction novel about three women who share neighboring plots in a community garden and change each other's lives forever. 366p. readinggroupguides.com
Roberts, Shelia, Small Change, "At their weekly craft group meeting, Rachel, Jessica and Tiffany admit they share a difficult secret: they're all struggling with major financial problems. 352p.ReadingGroupGuides
Strout, Elizabeth, Olive Kitteridge, Olive Kitteridge is the kind of woman you would duck across the street to avoid meeting. She's abrasive as sandpaper rubbed across a scab and unapologetically rude. Now retired, she taught seventh-grade math in the small Maine town of Crosby for years, earning a reputation as the mean teacher who leaves her students flustered and trembling. 304p. http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/13-fiction
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