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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Hi gang,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Over 30 librarians, educators and children’s book enthusiasts from all over Oregon and Southwestern Washington met on Saturday December 14<sup>th</sup> to participate in the first-ever Oregon
Library Association’s <a href="http://www.olaweb.org/csd">Children’s Services Division</a>
<b>Mock Geisel Workshop</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">The event included:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>An overview of the <a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/geiselaward">
ALA Geisel Award</a> Committee experience courtesy of 2014 Geisel Committee member Janet Weber<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>An introduction to the Geisel Award Criteria by 2012 Geisel Committee member Jackie Partch<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>A presentation on what makes a beginning reader high quality from a reading instruction perspective by reading specialist
<a href="http://www.pdxreadingspecialist.com/">Barbara Steinberg</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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After meeting in groups to discuss a selection of beginning reader titles published in 2013, participants reassembled to vote on the 2014 CSD Mock Geisel Award!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Mock Geisel Award:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15944573-a-big-guy-took-my-ball?from_search=true">A Big Guy Took My Ball</a></span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">
by Mo Willems. Hyperion Books for Children, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Mock Geisel Honor Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14758779-penny-and-her-marble?from_search=true">Penny and Her Marble</a></span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">
by Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow Books, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Participants left with a broader understanding of beginning readers and a greater appreciation for a book award that (while only in its ninth year) deserves to stand tall next to any other!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">The full list of titles the group looked at included:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><i>Have You Seen My New Blue Socks?</i></b> by Eve Bunting (illus. by Sergio Ruzzier). Clarion Books, 2013.<br>
<b><i>Monkey & Robot</i></b> by Peter Catalanotto. Athenuem Books for Young Readers, 2013.<b><i><br>
Penny and Her Marble</i></b> by Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow Books, 2013.<br>
<b><i>Max & Milo Go to Sleep!</i></b> by Heather Long (illus. by Ethan Long). Aladdin, 2013.
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<b><i>The Watermelon Seed</i></b> by Greg Pizzoli. Disney Hyperion Books, 2013.<br>
<b><i>Robot, Go Bot!</i></b> by Dana Meachen Rau (illus. by Wook Jin Jung). Random House, 2013.<br>
<b><i>Bear and Bee</i></b> by Sergio Ruzzier. Disney Hyperion Books, 2013.<br>
<b><i>Monkey and Elephant Get Better </i></b>by Carole Lexa Schaefer (illus. by Galia Bernstein). Candlewick Press, 2013.<br>
<b><i>Letting Go</i></b> by Janet Morgan Stoeke. Dial Books for Young Readers, 2013.<br>
<b><i>A Big Guy Took My Ball</i></b> by Mo Willems. Hyperion Books for Children, 2013.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Take care!<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Rick Samuelson, Youth Services Librarian<br>
Washington County Cooperative Library Services<br>
111 NE Lincoln, MS 58A<br>
Hillsboro, OR 97124<br>
(503) 648-9785 5#<br>
ricks@wccls.org <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"The clever men at Oxford<br>
Know all that there is to be knowed.<br>
But they none of them know one half as much<br>
As intelligent Mr Toad!"<br>
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">-Kenneth Grahame,
<i>The Wind in the Willows</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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