A season for all stories.

A season for all stories. Benton, Gail and Waichulaitis, Trisha Low-cost, high-interestprogramming: seasonal events for preschoolers. New York New York, state, United StatesNew York,Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of : Neal-SchumanPublishers, 2005. 265p + CD-ROM US$65.00 soft cover ISBN ISBNabbr.International Standard Book NumberISBNInternational Standard Book NumberISBNn abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m1555705022(available from DA Information Services See Information Systems. ) This title targets library staff who promote literature topreschoolers, either in the public library sphere or within schools andpreschools. For each of four themes (Teddy Bear Picnic, Winterfest,Spring Fling Spring Fling can refer to: Spring Fling (Carnival), an annual celebration held every year at the University of Pennsylvania Spring Fling, 6teen episode Spring Fling, Zoey 101 episode and Halloween) there is a brief description, publicitytemplates, certificates for participants, bookmarks, activity recordingcards, signage templates, stories/songs and a list of easy, inexpensiveactivities with supporting templates for photocopying (or copying andmodifying from the CD-ROM). The format for three themes is a large-scaleevent with a range of 10 activity stations, while the Halloweencelebration is in the form of a costume parade with treats. Some of the Teddy Bear Picnic activities/stories seem to have verylittle connection to teddy bears or picnics, but then the scope for funat a picnic can be interpreted widely. Two activities are explained,followed by five stories with suggestions for actions, props or audienceparticipation. Then the activity instructions are renewed for theremaining eight activities. None of the stories is acknowledged, so itis assumed that they are original. It is not clear how these stories areto be integrated into the management of the whole event. Winterfest andSpring Fling are similarly organised. The Halloween section offers fivesupported stories before it gets down to the detail of the parade. Thelack of integration of the stories into the overall framework of theevent and the curious organisation of some of the information would seemto be an editorial oversight. The CD-ROM offers the templates forreproduction of activities and support material as well as eight audiotracks which could be used wherever the stories are used. These sametemplates can be photocopied from the book as designed if nocustomisation is required. One serious drawback to this book is the contradictory copyrightstatement. The book invites the copying of the ready-to-use material,yet the copyright statement indicates that reproduction in whole or partwithout written permission of the publisher is forbidden. For busylibrarians on the run, this substantially reduces its usefulness. The events described are quite large in scale, but if the format isdeconstructed then there is a great deal of very useful everydaymaterial in this book. For the customary story times in a public librarythese activities are perfect. There may need to be some input in thechoice of literature to make a cohesive unit, but that would not bedifficult. Similarly, the teachers of early childhood could use allthese simple activities, stories and songs to good effect throughintegrating them into programs of suitable literature for their classes. For Australians and New Zealanders the large section on Winterfestlacks some environmental relevance with its focus on snowmen, ice,snowballs and snowflakes snowflakessmall patches of gray or white hair acquired after birth. Skin color is unchanged. See also achromotrichia, vitiligo. , but with some explanation this could still beuseful. Heather Fisher, New England New England,name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. Girls School