Books

Newbery Winner Jean Craighead George Dies at 92

Carol Castellano of the National Organization of Parents of Blind Children, http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Parents_and_Teachers.asp , has written Getting Ready for College Begins in Third Grade: Working Toward an Independent Future for Your Blind/VI Child, Information

House of Night is a series by mother/daughter writing team, PC Cast and Kristin Cast. It is a very popular series about sixteen year old Zoey, who gets marked by a vampire and gets sent to the House of Night boarding school for vampires.

Sharon Rawlins at the New Jersey State Library asked me to pass along the following information, so here goes. While it doesn't look like these are books in either large print or audio, you still may know a group or organization that would benefit.

So, here it goes:

BREAKING NEWS!

YA Library UK, a Website for and about teen librarians in the UK, quoted me in it's recent article about large print books for teens.

I pointed out how important it was to have large print books in a library, and how important it is to let people know those bo

I often find that the public, and public libraries, don't realize exactly what TBBC offers.

Since TBBC is like a public library, like public libraries we do not carry textbooks.

However, we frequently get questions about textbooks.

While many picture books and easy readers are available as downloadable audiobooks from BARD at https://nlsbard.loc.gov, not all those books are also available pre-loaded on a cartridge for TBBC to send out through the mail.

It’s not too late to sign up for the New Jersey State Library’s Talking Book & Braille Center summer reading program!

To sign up:

Call 609-530-3251 or email us at tbbcyouth@njstatelib.org

All we need is your name, address, phone number and age.

Let us know what books you want us to send out to you for the summer.

Then -- READ!

Do you have our new Digital Talking Book Player? If not, call the library at 800-792-8322! We have Digital Talking Books on cartridge that we can send you. Or, if you have access to the Internet and a blank thumbdrive, you can download books to a thumbdrive and listen to them on your new Digital Talking Book Player.

School Library Journal (a magazine for teachers and librarians at www.schoollibraryjournal.com) is holding a purely for fun "battle of the kids books." Sixteen books are selected.

Mary Burkey is a teacher, librarian, and audiobook expert. She writes about anything and everything audiobook connected at Audiobooker at the Booklist Online website, at http://audiobooker.booklistonline.com/ Mary just wrote a great article about free audiobooks, including NLS books.

This Digital Talking Book cartridge is shown from the front and the back, with rulers to indicate size. This Digital Talking Book cartridge contains two books by Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars and The Sands of Mars. It is DB63024. If you want to get this in Recorded Cassette, the number stays the same -- it is RC63024. Only the letters in front of the number change.

The new talking book cartridges have begun to arrive!

Here are the cases (pictured at right).

They are blue and similar in design to the old cassette cases. One big difference is that these are slimmer than the cassette cases.