Library/Media 

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Southbury Public Library

Books and the Library

• Nutmeg Children's Book Award
• Caledcott and Newbery Awards
• Dewey Decimal System - Learn about Mr. Dewey and the Dewey Decimal System the fun way!  Created by 5th and 6th graders in Jonesboro, AR.
• Picturing Books - a great website that tells all about picture books.
• An Animated History of Books
• RobertSabuda.com - The Manufacturing of a Pop-Up Book -- check out how pop-up books are made.

Media Literacy 101  from Cable in the Classroom

Cyberlibraries: Digital Collections of Electronic Books, Journals, and Reference Works

• The Internet Public Library - Hosted by the University of Michigan's School of Information, the IPL boasts over 20,000 books from famous authors such as Chaucer, Edgar Allen Poe, and Jane Austen.  All texts are available online, free of charge, and are searchable by title, author, and subject.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet - This searchable subject directory contains annotated descriptions of nearly 10,000 Internet resources. 
• LibrarySpot - Offers links to numerous online libraries, reference materials, periodicals, and quotations. 
• Bartleby.com:  Great Books Online - Includes several information and reference tools.

Wright Brothers

• First in Flight - from the Discovery Channel
• The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age - from the National Air & Space Museum
• Milestones of Flight - from the National Air & Space Museum
• How Things Fly - An exhibit from the National Air & Space Museum
• History of Flight - from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Making Puppets

• Puppets!  Puppets! Puppets!  -  Directions for making a simple sock puppet.
• Puppetry Workshop Construction Page - Directions for making sock, glove, box head, string, shadow, felt head, and junk puppets.

Evaluating Web Pages

• The Quality Information Checklist - a checklist to help you determine the quality and usefulness of information on the internet.
• The Jackalope Conspiracy - What do you think?
• Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus - An octopus in a tree?!?!?!

Try evaluating these:

• Frog Dance
• Michele's Frog Page
• Exploratorium:  Frogs

• Booktalks Quick and Simple
• SUNLINK Weed of the Month
• Story Arts Online
• Connecticut State Library Children's and Youth Services Page

Last Updated: Thursday, January 17, 2008 14:32:19 -0500