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My Preschool Graduation
by Selina Banerjee
"Back Matter Do you remember what it was like to be a preschooler? Do you remember the joys, the stress, and the friends? In My Preschool Graduation, narrator Selina Banerjee walks through the halls of her preschool in anticipation to her big day—graduation. Join her on her journey through her preschool life as she experiences the happiness and joy that accompany any young preschooler in My Preschool Graduation. Author Bio Sucharita SenBanerjee is the mother and Pallab Banerjee is the father of Selina Banerjee, who is now in first grade. Selina graduated from preschool on June 16, 2006 from Longwood Medical Area Child Care Center, Boston, at the age of 5 years and 9 months. The true story of her preparation and performance at the graduation ceremony has been described in this book. " |
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STORY
OF THE MONTH
Moriko
Shinju's Mottainai Grandma has sold more than 400,000 copies,
reminding Japanese about the tradition of "mottainai,"
or not being wasteful. She wrote the book because her 4-year-old
son didn't understand why it was so important to finish
his food. |
"Mottainai
Grandma" is the picture book which was published in
Japan 2004.
(
Mottainai Baasan / Japanese title) Mottainai is the thoughtful
Japanese word with love and compassion to think of the gift
from the nature or someone who made the product. The word
closest to Mottainai in English is "What a waste!",
"Do not waste!" or the situation a thing is being
wasted or being used without good care and consideration.
This word was introduced as Eco-friendly word by Hon.Prof.Maathai
at UN. ..Here comes Mottainai Grandma... Are you sure you
are not doing anything mottainai? |
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Association
for Library Service to Children recommended the following books
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/summerreading/recsummerreading/recommendedreading.htm
Caldecott
award winning book: 
The
2007 Caldecott Medal winner is Flotsam by David Wiesner
Flotsam
is a cinematic unfolding of discovery. A vintage camera washed
up on the beach provides a young boy with a surprising view of
fantastical images from the bottom of the sea. From fish-eye to
lens-eye, readers see a frame-by-frame narrative of lush marinescapes
ebbing and flowing from the real to the surreal.
Telling tales through imagery is what storytellers have
done through the ages. Wiesners wordless tale resonates
with visual images that tell his story with clever wit and lively
humor, said Caldecott Medal Committee Chair Janice Del Negro.
Gone
Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet is a black-and-white iconic
alphabet that is sophisticated enough to intrigue and captivate
readers of any age. A contemporary interpretation of an illuminated
alphabet melds animals and letters into 26 unique and elegant
graphic images
David
McLimans has won numerous awards for his editorial
illustration, including an Award of Excellence from the Society
of Newspaper Designers and a Certificate of Excellence from Print
Magazine.
His recent book Gone Wild: an Endangered Animal Alphabet was selected
for the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book List and
has been awarded a Caldecott Honor Medal.
His work has appeared in many national publications including
The Washington Post, AIGA, Time, The New York Times, The Progressive,
The Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's. He lives and works in Madison
Wisconsin.
CHECK
OUT HIS WEB SITE! I think many children would love his work. In
some ways it is so childlike |
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Mary
Lee has some wonderful songs we played on the air. Her
CD Whale Watching rocks! |

Have
you ever helped anyone? This delightful story is about
helping one another. It is written by Cheryl Block of
Block Publishing |

Rainbow
Web by Cheryl Block is an interesting story of a little
spider and how he decides to make a rainbow web. But,
once he changes his web's color, his survival is in danger.
There is a valuable lesson here for children. And Cheryl
Block illustrates it very clearly. |
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Hour with Miss Judy

This
story is a perfect one for a child around six years
old. It has drama, beauty and a sense of innocence a
child can feel.
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When
my girls were small, we loved this story. Through the
years it has stayed with us. It
is just one of those stories you don't forget about because
it is so human a story.
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"Love
is all you need!" Miss
Judy
"When
you know you are loved,
you
can't help but be a
Happy
Chappy!" |
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"Love
is all you need!" Miss
Judy
"When
you know you are loved,
you
can't help but be a
Happy
Chappy!" |
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"Love
is all you need!" Miss
Judy
"When
you know you are loved,
you
can't help but be a
Happy
Chappy!" |
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"Love
is all you need!" Miss
Judy
"When
you know you are loved,
you
can't help but be a
Happy
Chappy!" |
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"Love
is all you need!" Miss
Judy
"When
you know you are loved,
you
can't help but be a
Happy
Chappy!" |
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"Love
is all you need!" Miss
Judy
"When
you know you are loved,
you
can't help but be a
Happy
Chappy!" |
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A
first-grade author
Six-year-old
Selina Banerjee loves to swim, practice karate, and sing
in her Indian classical voice class. Add writing a book
to that list.
In the grown-up world of publishing, Selina is one of
its younger authors, having sold her first book, "My
Preschool Graduation," a behind-the-scenes look at
an event that took place a year ago at the Longwood Medical
Area Child Care Center. Tate Publishing bought the 22-page
manuscript last month and will publish it this summer
as an illustrated children's book.
So what does little Miss Banerjee think of all this? |
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Where
did my love for storytime come from?
"I decided to create
this radio program because I believe we have lost a significant
amount of contact with our children. The childhood obesity
issue, to me, reveals this one point vividly. No matter
what the cause of childhood obesity is, the point is our
children are not being considered as part of the family
or the community. Staying up late and watching TV on school
nights, becoming couch potatoes, dropping our of school
early, all these are signs that our children are viewing
'other' more often than viewing 'we'. They have lost themselves
in TV, video games, drugs, etc. In other words in "other"
rather than in "we."
What
can we do to promote 'we'? My answer for myself is simply
read to children. I remember as a homeschooling mom I
would read children's books or tell my girls stories of
my youth at their bedtime. Because I spent so much of
my young life with my grandmother during the summer months
in Canada, it seemed I had lots to tell. My grandmother
had nine children. She was always in her garden or in
the kitchen. When I was staying with her for prolonged
periods of time, she and I would design a vegetable garden
for the summer. I would tend to the beans, corn on the
cob and tomatoes while she readied her mason jars for
the harvest.
"Each
night she would put me to bed then lie down beside me
and tell me stories of her youth and her vegetable garden.
She would tell me about her blueberries being as big as
her thumb and her tomatoes as red as a Christmas dress.
She would tell me about the bees dancing in her garden
telling one another where the nectared flowers are. She
would always say they moved as carefully as deer through
a forest. She would tell me how the vegetables sucked
in the sun's energy during the day and made starches and
sugars at night while we were sleeping. She would always
make me think there was a 'we' ; there was nature and
me.
I
don't know exactly what it was about these private stories,
but I do know they had magic in them.They swooped me up
into a warm world where there was a 'we' waiting to be
felt, absorbed, and embraced. I thank my grandmother (picture
of grandma above) for the hundreds of hours of story telling
that are priceless." Judy Wilken MS
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