From: Nancy Silverrod <nsilverrod>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:25:55 -0700

I have some preference for books that were originally designed to be board books, but I agree that there are many that have made a successful transition in format. I've always been partial to Tana Hoban's Black on White, and White on Black.

 

Nancy Silverrod, Librarian

San Francisco Public Library

100 Larkin St.

San Francisco, CA 94102-4733

415-557-4417

nsilverrod at sfpl.org

 

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)

 

A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. -Chinese Proverb

-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of cathys at uproc.lib.mi.us Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 12:25 PM To: Megan Schliesman Cc: ccbc-net, Subscribers of Subject: [CCBC-Net] Get on Board!

 

Our book bins were full of board books. I wasn't going to order any more

for awhile because I, too, usually don't like the picture book to board

book transition. However, the last couple of years have brought an

explosion of wonderful, creative, funny, colorful, simple board books,

many of which work very well for our Book Babies program. I weeded many

old books to make room for the new. One thing I really appreciate about

the publishers of board books is how sturdy they make them. They hold up

quite well to hundreds of circs!

 

My personal favorite is Counting With Wayne Thiebaud by Susan Goldman

Rubin. I enjoy any new Rosemary Wells board books, especially Max books;

Rock-a-Bye Baby by Jeanette Winter; Kit Allen's clothing books (Sweater,

Galoshes, etc.); Annie Kubler's books, especially her songs and nursery

rhymes (Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, etc.); Elly van der Linden and Debbie

Lavrey's books (The Woolly Sheep, etc.); Karen Katz's colorful and busy

books; Emily Jenkins and Tomek Bogacki's Bea and HaHa books; Ba Ba Ha, Ha

by Zimm, and the Marshall Cavendish Board Buddies (Play Ball, etc.).

 

Cathy

 

Cathy Sullivan Seblonka

Youth Services Librarian

Peter White Public Library

217 N. Front St.

Marquette, MI 49855

906-226-4323

906-226-1783 fax

cathys at uproc.lib.mi.us

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