Media Madness

New Audio-Visual for November

First of all, I would like to thank each and every one of you for your patience while we installed our new carpeting!  We cleaned, dusted and rearranged a few areas – we hope you enjoy the fresh look!

With the fall of gas prices, many families will be taking road trips to the houses of relatives for the long Veterans’ Day weekend and Thanksgiving. Here are a few family-friendly books on compact discs to enjoy on the road.

The 2008 Newbery Award for the best in children’s literature went to Laura Amy Schlitz’s Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village. The author, a school librarian, wrote these twenty-two monologues for the twenty-two children who all wanted the starring role in their medieval play! Characters in this unique village include Nelly the Sniggler, Taggot, Drogo, Petronella and Jacob Ben Salomon. Read by a full cast, this is a wonderful way to introduce an old way of life.

Elijah of Buxton, written by Christopher Paul Curtis is a Newbery Honor Book. Elijah is the first-born child in a town of former runaway slaves in Canada. He knows nothing of the injustices his family faced growing up in slavery until he helps out a friend in a dangerous journey over the border in America.

Do you think you are extra smart? Do you enjoy brain-teasers? Trenton Lee Stewart’s The Mysterious Benedict Society begins with an intriguing ad to precocious students: “Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?” Four kids are then selected to go undercover on a secret mission where there are no rules for a very strange game.

The Calder Game by author Blue Balliet revolves around young Calder Pillay and his unusual connection to an Alexander Calder sculpture. The plot thickens when both Calder and the sculpture disappear. Calder’s friends from home come to England to help find him and a mystery unfolds!  Blue Balliet also wrote Chasing Vermeer.

These are only a few of the new titles to be found at the Henrietta Public Library. As always come in and check us out!

Nancy R. Maxwell, Audio-Visual Librarian