Genre 1-Review of Caldecott award medal book
1.Bibliography: Selznick, Brian. The invention of Hugo Cabret. New York: Scholastic Press, 2007. ISBN 0439813786
2. Plot Summary: The invention of Hugo Cabret is a look into the survival of Hugo. As he is dealing with the loss of his father and disappearance of his uncle, he is left as the sole time-keeper at a train station in Paris. Throughout the story, we see Hugo’s obsession with obtaining parts rebuild the automaton, a machine found by his father that is made with cogs and gears and has the appearance of a man. After his father’s death, Hugo makes it his mission to finish what his father could not. During a meeting with a mysterious man who owns a toy store and his goddaughter, Isabelle, Hugo discovers that his ability mechanical ability and parts from the toy store are the keys to finishing the automaton.
3. Critical Analysis: Brian Selznick uses the element of time throughout the novel in both the writing and the illustrations. The theme of the novel is that Hugo must find what he needs before he runs out of time, always mindful of the chance of being discovered. As the story progresses, we see that Hugo’s character goes through many complications and conflicts. Hugo is left to his own devices to maintain the clocks without alerting the station manager. In this combination of a picture book and novel, we see a connection between the skill of working with clocks, known as horology, and the world of magic. Many magicians were very accomplished at repairing broken toys or machines . The awarding winning illustrations are done in black and white, and are filled with details that depict the city as dark and mysterious. Many of the pictures actually make the reader feel as though they are looking through the angle of a camera. This is tie-in to the toy maker, who was an actual film maker in 1890’s to the 1920’s. George Melies was an accomplished magician as well. He is credited with creating the world’s first science fiction movie, A Trip to the Moon.
4. Awards:
2008 Caldecott Medal
National Book Award Finalist
A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2007
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2007
2007 Quill Award Winner
2007 Borders Original Voices Finalist
2007 #1 Best Book for Kids from Barnes and Noble
Parenting Magazine "Mom–Tested Book of the Year"
Miami Herald Best Kids Book of 2007>
Rocky Mountain News Best Book of 2007
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2007
Kansas City Star Top 100 Books of 2007
Columbus Dispatch Best Book of 2007
Los Angeles Times Favorite Children's Book of 2007
Kidsreads.com Best Book of 2007
5. Connections:
The following books can be used to extend the topics of films in the early 1900’s:
Smith, Kath. Let’s Make a Movie. ISBN - 10:1840891904
Brown, Don. Mack Made Movies. ISBN: 0761315381
The following books can be used to discuss concept of time and clocks:
Koscielniak, Bruce. About Time: A First Look at Time and Clocks. ISBN: 0618396683
McCaughrean, Geraldine. My Grandmother’s Clock. ISBN: 0618216952
Monday, February 1, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
New Semester -New class(LS5603)
This blog was originally used for Information Storage and Retrieval. This semester, this blog will be used for Children's Lit. I am very excited and looking forward to reading some great literature.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Database overall conclusion
Database overall conclusion-
I feel that my database is a valuable to those who have the task of purchasing materials for libraries, whether in the public sector or the academic setting. As a future librarian, I feel that this database will be helpful because the user is able to view the book cover as well as read a short review of the book, if it is available. I feel that my experience of searching on this database allowed me access to materials that I might never have found using a regular online card catalog. As a teacher, I feel that this database could be used by educators to find materials that could be purchased for their own library or to determine if the specific book is already part of the library. This database was fairly simple to navigate with practice and this could be shared with colleagues in the education setting or shared with students as a library skill.
I feel that my database is a valuable to those who have the task of purchasing materials for libraries, whether in the public sector or the academic setting. As a future librarian, I feel that this database will be helpful because the user is able to view the book cover as well as read a short review of the book, if it is available. I feel that my experience of searching on this database allowed me access to materials that I might never have found using a regular online card catalog. As a teacher, I feel that this database could be used by educators to find materials that could be purchased for their own library or to determine if the specific book is already part of the library. This database was fairly simple to navigate with practice and this could be shared with colleagues in the education setting or shared with students as a library skill.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
internet competency
Mightybook.com
http://www.mightybook.com/
This site is geared for helping children in the primary age group to enjoy reading.
There are different categories of activities, such as stories written by kids, art/music and puzzle page. To find this website, I type in library websites as my search query. Using Yahoo as my search engine, one of the results brought up was best websites for K-12. Since, I am a first grade teacher and I hope to be a primary level librarian someday, this caught my attention. This specific webpage listed different websites for math, reading and language arts, science and social studies. One of the topics under reading and language arts was Internet Public Library(Reading).
This listed different topic areas as well as resources. One of the resources listed was Mightybook.com. I feel that this could be a great resource for parents, grandparents and teachers. There were even activities for children as young as two.
http://www.mightybook.com/
This site is geared for helping children in the primary age group to enjoy reading.
There are different categories of activities, such as stories written by kids, art/music and puzzle page. To find this website, I type in library websites as my search query. Using Yahoo as my search engine, one of the results brought up was best websites for K-12. Since, I am a first grade teacher and I hope to be a primary level librarian someday, this caught my attention. This specific webpage listed different websites for math, reading and language arts, science and social studies. One of the topics under reading and language arts was Internet Public Library(Reading).
This listed different topic areas as well as resources. One of the resources listed was Mightybook.com. I feel that this could be a great resource for parents, grandparents and teachers. There were even activities for children as young as two.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Database evaluation-part 4
Part 4-Database Evaluation
Karla Phipps
LS 5013-21
Database-Book Index with reviews
Coverage-
My database covers books as well as the reviews of each book. The complete number of documents was not given. However, when I typed in the search statement, children’s literature, there were 3,124 hits. The database did have a timeline to limit search results, but each title had a date listed and each title was different in the time listing. Therefore, the dates were not uniform for every title.
Currency-
As I had stated before, the timeline allows the user to limit their search by a timeline. The specific timeline for this database was from 1922-2012. Using the same search statement, children’s literature, I was able to find books that were published in the 70’s and the 80’s, but I decided to narrow my search to the books published beginning in 1992. This is the year that I became a teacher. After narrowing my search by the timeline, children’s literature received 2488 hits.
I found it very interesting that several of the books that were not yet available for purchase were already on the index. These works in progress were already indexed.
Predictability-
I feel that this database did perform as expected. I completed several searches with the subject child and literature. I was not able to use the keywords because this database does not offer that as a field choice.
(su) child and literature-20,487 hits (basic search)
(su)child andliterature-11, 137 (advanced search)
These were both quite high and I feel that the predictability is high. After this, I tried a different field,
(rv) review and annotation.
(rv)child and literature-5030 hits
Most of the books listed in this group were geared for the upper elementary and middle school age group. These books seemed to deal with very mature topics.
I then tried the field choice of title(ti).
(ti)child and literature-1,446 hits
The majority in this group were books that would be read at the primary level or were educational texts for parents and educators.
Several of the book titles were duplicated throughout each search.
Retrievability-
Using the descriptor term, children’s literature, this database produced 3,616 hits. Using the subject field choice, the search statement produced 3,124 hits. Finally, the field of title was used and it received 1,145 hits. The number of relevant documents are not known for this system, however the results for each of the search statements have shown productive results.
Usability-This database is very user friendly and easy to use. The field choices are in a drop down format. Once the results are given, the user can sort by popularity, relevance, data descending and data ascending, just to name a few. At any point that a user needs to begin again, he or she can reset the searching options and begin again. The results can be narrowed by a timeline or by subject. A section of research starters is given to extend the search query .
Karla Phipps
LS 5013-21
Database-Book Index with reviews
Coverage-
My database covers books as well as the reviews of each book. The complete number of documents was not given. However, when I typed in the search statement, children’s literature, there were 3,124 hits. The database did have a timeline to limit search results, but each title had a date listed and each title was different in the time listing. Therefore, the dates were not uniform for every title.
Currency-
As I had stated before, the timeline allows the user to limit their search by a timeline. The specific timeline for this database was from 1922-2012. Using the same search statement, children’s literature, I was able to find books that were published in the 70’s and the 80’s, but I decided to narrow my search to the books published beginning in 1992. This is the year that I became a teacher. After narrowing my search by the timeline, children’s literature received 2488 hits.
I found it very interesting that several of the books that were not yet available for purchase were already on the index. These works in progress were already indexed.
Predictability-
I feel that this database did perform as expected. I completed several searches with the subject child and literature. I was not able to use the keywords because this database does not offer that as a field choice.
(su) child and literature-20,487 hits (basic search)
(su)child andliterature-11, 137 (advanced search)
These were both quite high and I feel that the predictability is high. After this, I tried a different field,
(rv) review and annotation.
(rv)child and literature-5030 hits
Most of the books listed in this group were geared for the upper elementary and middle school age group. These books seemed to deal with very mature topics.
I then tried the field choice of title(ti).
(ti)child and literature-1,446 hits
The majority in this group were books that would be read at the primary level or were educational texts for parents and educators.
Several of the book titles were duplicated throughout each search.
Retrievability-
Using the descriptor term, children’s literature, this database produced 3,616 hits. Using the subject field choice, the search statement produced 3,124 hits. Finally, the field of title was used and it received 1,145 hits. The number of relevant documents are not known for this system, however the results for each of the search statements have shown productive results.
Usability-This database is very user friendly and easy to use. The field choices are in a drop down format. Once the results are given, the user can sort by popularity, relevance, data descending and data ascending, just to name a few. At any point that a user needs to begin again, he or she can reset the searching options and begin again. The results can be narrowed by a timeline or by subject. A section of research starters is given to extend the search query .
research visual competency
I feel that this picture is a great example of why teachers, librarians and parents all work for the same goal- to instill the love of reading in a child. Each of us started out as this child and because someone took the time to work with us, we know want to share that with others.
Retrieved November 16,2009 from Free-clipart-pictures.net
http://www.free-clipart-pictures.net/child_clipart.html
Monday, November 9, 2009
Multimedia competency
I chose this specific image because it is my favorite children's book. I have read this book at least 25 times. Each time I read it, I am reminded why I love children's literature and I always try to instill that love in my students each year that I read it. I still cry each time I read the chapter when Charlotte dies and Wilbur takes the egg sac home so that he can take care of Charlotte's children.
Charlotte's Web,Spotlight on the popular children's book.(2007)
Retrieved on November 9, 2009 from InfoPlease Web site:
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/charlottes-web.html
After searching through many images from the book Charlotte's Web and reading the terms of use and copyright policies, this specific site allowed for a visitor to download one (1) single copy of the copyrighted material for the visitor's personal, non-commercial use only.
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