Exploring Dewey: 200s

The 200s are about divine mysteries of the world, mythology, ancient stories about creation and the gods, along with different religions.

Title: What I Believe by Alan Brown and Andrew Langley

Call Number: 291 BROW

Introduces Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Shinto, and Taoism through the eyes of young members of those faiths.

Title: Judaism by Cath Senker

Call Number: 296 SENK

All about Judaism's religious signs, symbols, and stories. 

Title: Celebrating Ramadan by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith

Call Number: 297.62

The book talks about one family celebrates the Islamic holiday of Ramadan.

Concept Books: Opposites

Up! Tall! And High! by Ethan Long

Which bird is the the tallest?  Who can fly the highest?  Along the same vein as Mo Willem's Elephant and Piggie stories, Up! Tall! And High! is full of sarcasm that will delight readers of all ages.

Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner

While I know many Wisconsinites would not want to talk about what lives under the snow right now, this book is great to inform kids about winter!  This book would be perfect to illustrate the concept of hibernation and deciding what animals do and do not hibernate.

A Garden of Opposites by Nancy Davis

With it finally being Spring, this garden illustrates opposites that a child would find in the garden.  There is a big and little bug, a short and long snake, and an open and closed flower.  

Big Bear, Little Bear by Susan Amerikaner

Based on the movie Brave, by Disney, Big Bear, Little Bear uses illustrations from the movie for this more complex easy reader.  

Summer Reading Program

Our theme for summer reading is Dig into Reading!

• Reading logs start June 6th.  Kids who complete 6 reading logs by the end of the program will receive a free book!
• Weekly programs are on Thursdays, July 11- August 8.  Programs run from 9:30 am-11:00 am at the Lion's Hall.
• Our final program will be Thursday August 15 at Lake Eau Claire at 9:30 am.
• This program is limited to children ages 3-11.  More information on the teen program coming soon!
• Contact the Augusta Public Library for more information: aulib[at]augustalibrary[dot]org OR 715-286-2070.

Happy Reading!

Exploring Dewey: 100s

The 100s section are for books about philosophy and psychology.  These books help people think about feelings.

Title: Ghosts by Jacqueline Gorman

Call Number: 133.1 GORM

Introduces ghosts, describing what people believe about them and examples of sightings of different ghosts.

Title: Everyone Feels Sad Sometimes by Marcie Aboff

Call Number: 152.4  ABOF

The book talks about how we all experience feelings; particularly sadness.  It gives examples when kids would feel sad and what they might do to fix it.

Title: Friends by Leon Read

Call Number: 177.62 READ

The book talks about what kids do with their friends.

Concept Books: Numbers

Zero the Hero by Joan Holub is about Zero, who the other numbers think is nothing, zip, zilch, zero.  When the other numbers get in trouble though, Zero comes to save the day!

The peas are back, in 1-2-3 Peas! by Keith Baker!  This time, instead of the alphabet, we are counting to one hundred with the peas!

Ten Little Caterpillars by Bill Martin Jr. follows several caterpillars as they wriggle up flower stems where something amazing happens.

Hootenanny!  A Festive Counting Book by Kimberly Ainsworth features as set of owls that are working their way to the top of the oak tree for a party on Saturday night!  Those owls sure know how to dance!

One Foot, Two Feet by Peter Maloney and Felicia Zekauskas is a great book to introduce counting and plural nouns that are spelled differently from their singular versions.  Example: octopus to octopi; die to dice.

Exploring Dewey: 000s

The zero-hundreds section (000s) is for general books.  Encyclopedias have too much information to be put into just one subject.  Books that do not have their own section are also placed here, like computers or UFOs.  

Title: The Search for Vile Things by Jane Hammerslough

Call Number: 001.94 HAMM

This book explores some of the most horrible things on Earth! 

Title: Book by Karen Brookfield.

Call Number: 002 BROO

Text and photographs trace the history of the book and the written word.  There is so much detail in this book.  The history of handwriting is explored along with the history of children's books.  

Title: Computers by Charlotte Guillain
Call Number: 004.23 GUIL
If you like computers, read this book to experience different types of careers that revolve around the use of them.  A person could become a forensic scientist, a robot designer, or a video game designer.

Title: One Million Things: a Visual Encyclopedia by Julie Ferris
Call Number: 030 ONE
Loads of topics, hundreds of pictures, one million things to explore.  Find facts about anything; shells, the skeleton, color, meteorites, earthquakes, weather, and history.  

Concept Books: Colors

Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin is a really cute coloring book.  The monsters love colors, and they want to create new colors!  This book would be great to read aloud to children because of all the rhyming and great choices.

Ruby, Violet, Lime by Jane Brocket talks about the different shades of colors.  It also talks about how to create black, brown, and metallic colors.  The photographs are amazing, and highly detailed.

Exploring Dewey: Introduction

Exploring the Dewey Decimal System

Melvil Dewey 1851-1931

The Dewey Decimal System was invented by Melvil Dewey in 1876.  

All non-fiction books are put into groups; from the zero hundreds to the 900s.  Each book is assigned a call number, which relates to where the book is found in the library.

The Dewey Decimal Rap

Each Friday I will be posting a summary of each section, along with highlighting some some books from  Augusta's children's department.

Concept Books: Alphabet

ABCs of Baseball by Peter Golenbock is perfect for those that love baseball.  This book includes pages of facts, figures, lists, and background to make for a really fascinating read.  The author also includes many entries for each letter, which makes it pretty unique for an alphabet book.

Who loves alliteration?  If you do, this book is for you!  Angry Aardvark to Zealous Zebra by Scott Thomas is full of hilarious alliteration.  For example, for V: "a Vain vampire Viewing a vacant Vault".

Not the normal alphabet book, A to Z Sign with Me by Dawn Babb Prochovnic, teaches children how to sign the alphabet.  American Sign Language uses handshapes to create words.  

Sink or Float

**Note: This is our last Storytime for this session!  Storytime will be back in the fall, but don't despair!  Summer Reading is almost here!  Look for more details soon!** 

THE PLAN

Playtime
We put together our Dr. Seuss puzzle today for Playtime.

Two Little Hands
We stretched out our limbs and shook out our wiggles before doing our rhyme.  See this post for our Two Little Hands rhyme

Beginning Song

See this post for our Beginning Song.

All About Today

Friday's weather was cold and snowy.  Snow!  In May!!  

Read & Listen:

We read M. Christina Butler's One Rainy Day for our Read & Listen.  The kids were really engrossed with this book.  They wanted to know what was going to happen to Mole and the Mouse family.  The kids were also really fascinated by how the umbrella was sparkly in the book.

Learning Time:

Little Hedgehog and Mole float in the river using the umbrella, so I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to talk about sinking and floating.  I filled a very large Tupperware container with water and I gathered some items: a paper plate, some balls, crayons, rocks, and buttons.  I had the kids guess to see if they thought if an item was going to sink or float.  Leslie also showed the kids how to pick up an ice cube using a piece of string and salt.  Another trick that she used was putting a napkin in a cup, turning the cup upside down, and putting it in the water.  The kids were amazed to find that the napkin was still perfectly dry!

Overall, this activity was really good for the kids.  It allowed them to experiment and make hypothesizes about what would sink or float.