Maine Student Book Awards

Earlier this school year we introduced our fourth graders to the Maine Student Book Award program. 40 books are selected each year by a committee that reads hundreds of recommended books, and 4th-8th graders from all over the state of Maine are encouraged to read these 40 books and then vote on their favorites. The voting at CRES will take place in March, and the winners are announced in April. Here is a slide show of the titles that we have available at CRES. The entire collection is also available at the Camden and Rockport Public Libraries.

New Interactive Chickadee Book Award web page

A reminder that the CRES Library Web Page has many interesting resource links, such as Tumblebooks - an entire library of free, animated picture books (which is only free for you if you enter Tumblebooks from the CRES library web page link), and more.

Just added to the webpage - a link to a Glogster page that features all ten of this year's Chickadee Book Award books. Each of the ten books are represented on the web page by a picture of the book's cover, and for each book there are links to videos, photos and other web pages that go along with the book, or allow you to meet the author or illustrator.

Go to http://www.fivetowns.net/cres/library/index.html , and click on the link for the 2012-2013 Chickadee Books.