Literacy Through Extending the Summer Reading Program into the

School YearIncorporating the Diamond Books

and Simon Books into this Effort Part 1

Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP)

• Consortium of states working together to provide high-quality summer reading program materials for children at the lowest cost possible for their public libraries

• http://www.cslpreads.org

2012 Theme

• Dream Big• Early Literacy• Children’s Program• Teen Program• Adult Program

Arkansas Diamond Books 2012-2013

• The Hallelujah Flight by Phil Bildner

Dreaming Big has two men flying coast to coast and landing in New York on October 9, 1932.

Birtha, BeckyLucky Beans

• Marshall Loman's dad has lost his job. No money but lots of beans. Ma cooks them for supper every single night! Beans start looking better when Marshall sees the contest posted in the furniture store window. HOW MANY BEANS ARE IN THE JAR? WIN THIS BRAND NEW SEWING MACHINE! Ma needs that sewing machine-but how can Lomans possibly guess right? Then Marshall remembers something he learned in arithmetic class.

• DREAM BIG!

Brett, JanThe 3 Little Dassies

• The Dream Big here is when the 3 Little Dassies cross the desert to build their homes. This African version of the three little pigs' story began in 2007 when Jan and her husband Joe camped in Namibia in southern Africa and encountered dassies.

Hill, Laban CarrickDave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave

• Dream Big• Dave was a slave who

made thousands of pieces of beautiful pottery with poets written in his own hand. Many of his pieces have survived and are treasured today.

Klise, KateStand Tall, Ella Kate

• DREAM BIG

• Ella Kate's large size was the ticket to her freedom. While most women stayed at home, Ella Kate was able to be independent, earning her own money, and traveling to see the world!

Newman, MarkPolar Bears

Whose fur isn’t really white?•

Who usually gives birth to twins?•

Who’s the biggest bear in the world?• Really DREAM BIG!•

The Polar Bear!•

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Full of fascinating information, this book explores the world of the polar bear on land and under water. Get ready to be wooed by adorable baby cubs and impressed by majestic adult bears captured in stunning photographs by renowned wildlife photographer Mark Newman.

Orloff, Karen KaufmanI Wanna New Room

• Alex really DREAMS BIG. Do you remember I Wanna Iguana?

• Ever since their baby sister came along, Alex has been forced to share a room with his little brother, Ethan, and it's a nightmare. Ethan always breaks stuff, snores like a walrus, and sticks crayons up his nose. No hardworking, well-behaved, practically grown-up boy like Alex should have to put up with that!

• Writing letters to his mom convinced her to let him get his pet iguana, so Alex puts pencil to paper again, this time determined to get his own room. Though all of his powers of persuasion can't get his dad to expand the house, he does come through with a fun alternative-a tree house!

Reynolds, AaronBack of the Bus

• DREAM BIG • Rosa Parks’ act of

defiance told thru the eyes of a child.

Sherman, PatBen and the Emancipation

Proclamation• Benjamin Holmes, a young

slave apprenticed to a tailor in Charleston, South Carolina, practices reading every chance he gets, a skill that comes in handy when his employer leaves town and he is put in a slave prison where his fellow inmates listen as he reads aloud the news of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Stein, David EzraInterrupting Chicken

• DREAM BIG!• Awarded a 2011

Caldecott Honor!

A favorite joke inspires this charming tale, in which a little chicken’s habit of interrupting bedtime stories is gleefully turned on its head.

Watson, ReneeA Place Where Hurricanes Happen

• Children living on the same street in New Orleans tell their story of Katrina in free verse.

• Dream Big as their families put their lives back together.

Woodson, JacquelinePecan Pie Baby

• Gia’s DREAM BIG is for life to remain the same. Gia’s mother is having a baby leaving Gia upset that their happy lives are changing.