Archive for May, 2008
Mike Weber Photography
All those random nature and wildlife photos that pop up on this blog are Mike’s. As a professional photographer, he’s spent hours, even days, waiting for perfect shots. We’ve both hiked miles of rugged terrain, schlepping gear that weighs as much as WWF wrestlers. We’ve tiptoed barefoot over crusty snow (shhh!), crawled on our bellies [...]
First Book + eBay Foundation = Community Gives
First Book has teamed with the eBay Foundation, the charitable arm of eBay Inc., for Community Gives, an “online fundraising campaign designed to engage the eBay Community in supporting First Book’s mission to provide new books to the children who need them most.” First Book is one of three nonprofit organizations the eBay community has [...]
2008 Bookmark Challenge: The Last Day
Today is the last day to get bookmarks to participating shops for the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2008 Bookmark Challenge. Shop owners will be delivering the bookmarks to their libraries, schools, and literacy programs in time for Children’s Book Week next week. I will tally and post results here as shop owners provide [...]
National Library Legislative Day(s)
On May 13 & 14, librarians and library supporters will descend on Washington D. C. to advocate for libraries. Did you know that: U.S public library cardholders outnumber Amazon customers worldwide by 3 to 1. Reference librarians in the nation’s public and academic libraries answer more than 8 million questions weekly. Standing single file, the [...]
Challenge Update – Nordic Needle
During the 2007 Bookmark Challenge, stitchers and independent needlework shops donated 429 bookmarks to libraries, schools, and literacy programs. Nordic Needle collected 171 of those bookmarks. Naturally, I hope the program will grow and that we’ll top last year’s results this year. Well, as of May 1, Nordic Needle had collected–drum roll, please–396 bookmarks. Wa-hoo! [...]
Guest Blogger: Kat Rocha
Everyone, meet Kat Rocha. Kat, this is Everyone. Sorry, no pics of a cat close at hand, so here’s Cat’s-Best-Friend. Or something. Kat is a needlework designer and owner of Cross Eyed Kat. She’s designing a bookmark for the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy program next year. (Right, Kat?) No, really, I think it’s [...]
Weekend Book Quotes
What’s on my mp3 player? The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. –Daniel J. Boorstein The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. –Elizabeth [...]
Weekend Book Quotes
What’s on my nightstand? Archer’s Quest, by Linda Sue Park. The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. –Thomas Carlyle Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you [...]
Read Aloud America Book List 2008
Does reading aloud to children really make a difference in how well they do in school? Yes! According to the Children’s Literacy Initiative, “education experts agree that reading aloud at home is the single most important activity parents can do to help their children develop as readers … and that KIDS WHO READ SUCCEED.” We [...]
Bookmark Challenge Updates
Janet from The Cross Stitch Station in Miami, FL, reports that Royal Palm Chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild has taken up the Bookmark Challenge. Members are stitching bookmarks to add to the collection at The Cross Stitch Station. Thank you, Royal Palm guild members! From the Anchorage, AK, Bookmark Make-It-Take-It, April 13, 2008. Kendra [...]
