Lab Links
Useful Websites
- Interactive Poetry from ETTC. Create poetry by filling in the blanks.
- Moving Stories Watch Animated stories such as Anansi and the Pot of Beans and A Tale of Two Frogs Available free from August House. Titles change.
- Kids Space from the Internet Public Library Free. Features Reference, Science Fair help, Author Pages, Story Hour, U.S. Presidents, Arts & Crafts, Games, and much more.
- KidsAstronomy.com
- American Memory Primary source materials from the Library of Congress in many forms: documents, photographs, films, maps, audio files, and more.
- Today in History from the Library of Congress.
- On This Day Highlights in history from the New York Times learning network.
- LIFE magazine historical photo image archive hosted by Google
http://images.google.com/hosted/life
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December
Winter Celebrations
Which do you celebrate?
Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, Saint Nicholas Day, St. Lucia Festival, Yule, Boxing Day, Diwali, Hogmanay, Dongzhi Festival, Eid al-Adha, Midwinter Day, Bodhi Day, Samhain, Los Posadas, the Twelve Days of Christmas
Books about Winter Festivals
- Celebrations: Festivals, Carnivals, and Feast Days from Around the World by Anabel Kindersley (394.26 KIN)
- Festivals by Meryl Doney (394.2 DOR)
Books about Winter
- Animals in Winter by Helen Bancroft (591.56 BAN)
- Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson (E WIL)
- The Mitten and The Hat 2 books by Jan Brett (E BRE)
- Winter Poems selected by Barbara Rogasky; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (811.008 ROG)
- Footprints in the Snow by Cynthia Benjamin; illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers. (ER BEN)
- Henry and Mudge in the Sparkle Days by Cynthia Rylant; illustrated by Sucie Stevenson. (ER RYL)
- Poppleton in Winter by Cynthia Rylant; illustrated by Mark Teague. (ER RYL)
- Brian's Winter by Gary Paulson (FIC PAU) Companion book to: Hatchet and The River. Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
Books about Hanukkah (Chanukah)
- The Tie Man's Miracle by Steven Schnur
- The Story of Hannukkah by Amy Ehrlich; paintings by Ori Sherman (394.268 EHR)
- The Hanukkah Story by Morrison David Bial; pictures by Stephen Kraft (394.268 BIA)
- Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric A. Kimmel; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (E KIM)
- Gramdma's Latkes by Malka Drucker ; illustrated by Eve Chwast. (E DRU)
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Books about Hanukkah and Christmas
- Elijah's Angel: a Story for Chanukah and Christmas by Michael J. Rosen; illustrated by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson. (E ROS) Based on a true story of Elijah Pierce (1892-1984), a lay minister, barber, and woodcarver from Columbus, Ohio. When Christmas and Hannukkah occur at the same time, Elijah, an African American barber, gives Michael, a Jewish boy a gift of a carved guardian angel. Michael doesn't know what to do since the Christmas angel is a "graven image," forbidden in Michael's home.
- The Trees of the Dancing Goats by Patricia Polacco. (E POL) During a scarlet-fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle.
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Books about Christmas
- Brian Wildersmith's The Twelve Days of Christmas (E WIL)
- The Night Before Christmas A.K.A. A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement C. Moore (811 MOO)
- Christmas in the Big House; Christmas in the Quarters by Pat McKissack; illustrated by John Thompson. (975.03 MCK)
- Tree of Cranes by Allen Say (E SAY)
- Madeline's Christmas by Ludwig Bemelmans (E BEM)
- Going Home by Eve Bunting (E BUN)
- Country Angel Christmas by Tomie dePaola. (E DEP)
- An Early American Christmas by Tomie dePaola (E DEP)
- A Green Christmas by Theodora Kroeber; Illustrated by John Larrecq (E KRO)
- An Ellis Island Christmas by Maxinne Rhea Leighton; illustrated by Dennis Nolan (E LEI)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss. (E SEU)
- The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (E VAN)
- Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish; pictures by Lynn Sweat. (ER PAR)
- Mr. Putter and Tabby Bake the Cake by Cynthia Rylant; illustrated by Arthur Howard. (ER RYL)
- Christmas Stories (includes A Christmas Carol) by Charles Dickens (FIC DIC)
- The Coat-hanger Christmas Tree by Eleanor Estes; Illustrated by Susanne Suba (FIC EST)
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson; pictures by Judith Gwyn Brown. (FIC ROB)
- The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie de Paola (E DEP)
Books about Kwanzaa
- African-American Holidays by Fith Winchester (394.2 WIN)
- Seven Candles for Kwanzaa by Andrea Davis Pinkney; pictures by Brian Pinkney. (394.26 PIN)
- My First Kwanzaa by Deborah M. Newton Chocolate; illustrated by Cal Massey (394.238 CHO)
- Big Bob and the Winter Holiday Potato by Daniel Manus Pinkwater; illustrated by Jill Pinkwater. (ER PIN)
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