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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">CLEL—Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy—has just announced the winners of the 2018 CLEL Bell Picture Book Awards for Early Literacy! To find out more about
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt"><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">February 5, 2018</span></u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
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We are happy to announce the 2018 CLEL Bell Picture Book Awards for Early Literacy! </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The five winning books consist of one title in each of five categories selected from a </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.clel.org/previous-nominations"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">shortlist</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> of
25 titles. Each category represents an early literacy practice: Read, Write, Sing, Talk, and Play. The books, in their content, theme, or design, support caregivers’ interaction with their children through these five early literacy practices. Research has
shown that engaging children in these practices builds language skills and prepares children to become successful readers.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Please visit the </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.clel.org/bell-awards-winners"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">2018
CLEL Bell Winners page</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> to view and download activity sheets with bibliographic information, an annotation, and ideas for extending each winning book with children.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white">The 2018 Bell Award Winners</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">READ: The Library Book</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">by Tom Chapin and Michael Mark, illustrated by Chuck Goenink</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017 ISBN 13: 978-1481460927</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">A rainy day entices a girl to the library. Sitting in her favorite chair she is soon surrounded by her literary friends including Winnie the Pooh, Madeline, Pinnocchio and more. After a fun visit to
the library, she checks out her favorite book to take home and read. This book models a child’s love of reading and how it can be enhanced by a trip to the library.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">WRITE: Little Plane Learns to Write by Stephen Savage</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Roaring Brook Press, 2017 ISBN-13: <span style="background:white"> </span>978-1626724365</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Little Plane loves flight school where he and the other planes are learning to write in the sky. His arcs and dives are excellent, but he can’t seem to get the hang of loopity-loops. Finally, tracing
the round shape of the moon inspires Little Plane to write the perfect loopity-loops. Drawing circles, arcs, and lines helps children learn to form letters.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">SING: Motor Goose by Rebecca Colby, illustrated by Jef Kaminsky</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Feiwel and Friends, 2017 ISBN 13: 978-1250101938</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Motor Goose is a compilation of classic nursery rhymes that have been rewritten with a transportation theme. Each page is a song centered on a different vehicle but set to familiar
tunes such as Mary Had a Little Lamb and Itsy Bitsy Spider. This book models the importance of singing with children, whether it be classic nursery rhymes or modern children’s classics.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">TALK: Say Zoop! by Herve Tullet</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Chronicle Books, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1452164731</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Say Zoop! encourages children and caregivers to interact with the pages of the book by landing their fingers on different colored dots and making sounds that the book describes for
each dot. Making silly noises helps children practice the different sounds in words which will help them in acquiring language. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">PLAY: Things to Do with Dad <span style="background:white">by Sam Zuppardi</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Candlewick, 2017 ISBN 13: 978-0763681463</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">A boy and his dad start the day making pancakes together, but dad’s looming to-do list puts a damper on their shared fun. The boy alters the list, inventing imaginative ways he and
his dad can complete the chores together. This book models a variety of ways that adults and kids can playfully interact to</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> accomplish daily to-dos.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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