What’s in Newsletters?

This month, let’s take a look at the Newsletters link on the webpage which is found under the Books and Materials tab. This place is full of terrific reading suggestions for all ages. In three steps customers can subscribe to over twenty types of newsletters.

For practical use at your customer service desk, take a look at the entries above the main title “Good Reads in your Inbox”. Click on each of them, Good Reads, Bestseller & Award List, NYT Bestsellers, Authors A to Z, and Book of the Day. I especially like the Bestseller and Awards list, which are extensive and Authors A to Z. You can even use Authors A to Z to get some good biographical information on particular authors. Another excellent feature is a direct link to our catalog for most of the titles.

Look at everything at least three times and remember to add this to your monthly reports and training logs.

How to get there:

Click on Books & Materials on the orange tab.

Look to your left to find Newsletters. Click on it to get to the registration and information page.

Shortcut: http://www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/bookletter/addnluser.html?sid=6701

For practice, under authors A to Z, look for Rhea Perlman in the Ps and open her autobiography.

The following, plus much more, in the Best Seller and Awards Lists supports Strategic Goals:

Goal 1: Young children (birth through age five) will have the resources and opportunities they need to start school ready to learn to read, to write, and to listen.

Goal 2: Children (age six through twelve) will enjoy materials and programs that stimulate their imaginations and provide pleasurable reading, viewing, and listening experiences.

 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards                 Caldecott Medal
Children's Choice Book Award                        Cooperative Children's Book Center
Coretta Scott King Award                                Orbis Pictus Award
Red House Children's Book Award                 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
Schneider Family Book Award             Scott O'Dell Award
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award                          E. B. White Read Aloud Award
Ezra Jack Keats Award                                    The Giverny Award Golden Kite Award Fiction                              Golden Kite Award Non-Fiction
Jane Addams Children's Book Awa                 Golden Kite Award Picture Book TextGolden Kite Award Picture Book Illustration Mark Twain Award
Mildred L. Batchelder Award                          NCTE Award for Poetry for Children
Newbery Medal                                               Children's Chapter Books
Children's Picture Books

Goal 3: Adults will enjoy materials and programs that stimulate their imaginations andprovide pleasurable reading, viewing, and listening experiences.

Goal 4: Teens (age thirteen through seventeen) will have materials and programs thatrespond to their current interests and provide pleasurable reading, viewing, and listening experiences.

Award Lists for Teens

ALA Top Ten Young Adult Books National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Great Graphic Novels
Printz Awards
Schneider Family Book Award

Alex Award Winners

Margaret A. Edwards Award Winners

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

Teen Summer Reading Booklist

Teen Scene