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January 27th

Wonderful wordless books

January 27, 2010 - 5:38pm — Mary K.

 Lion and the Mouse   By now I'm sure you've all heard that Jerry Pinkney's beautiful book The Lion and the Mouse is the recipient of this year's Caldecott Medal.  I was personally so taken with this book, that uses only pictures (and a few animal sounds) to retell the Aesop's fable of a Lion who lets a mouse go and how the mouse is able to return the favor.  Sharing wordless books, or nearly wordless books (like Jez Alborough's Hug

January 19th

Neighborhoods and Influence On Literacy

January 19, 2010 - 12:02pm — Priscilla Q.

Interesting article - notice how often there is a mention of the importance of access to libraries.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/entertainment/2443139/story.html

January 16th

CLEL Seeking Contract Drupal Developer

January 16, 2010 - 3:27pm — CLEL

The Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy seeks a web design and Drupal development firm to create a website of video vignettes on early literacy. CLEL is looking to add streaming video to our existing web presence. We would like to create an auxiliary site to integrate with our existing Drupal site at www.clel.org.

Please see the full job description for more information about the project and the submission process.

Proposals are due February 8, 2010.

January 7th

January 4th

Resolve to raise readers!

January 4, 2010 - 2:25pm — Mary K.

Happy New Year!  I hope everyone had a happy and safe holiday season.  Now that 2010 is upon us, I've been thinking about my goals for the new year, especially regarding early literacy and my library.  I think that my biggest goal for 2010 is to talk about early literacy everywhere, with everyone.  If we put that bug in the ear of just the right person, it might lead to some exciting things.  And speaking of exciting things, we've got some great stuff planned for CLEL this year, including producing the videos for our Road to Re



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