 Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. Go back. Sorry, that's my fault. All right, good morning again, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event or a webinar, a webcast, online show. Take anything you want. Okay, whatever terminology you like. We are here live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. Every week the shows are recorded and posted to our website, and I'll show you that afterwards, where you can find those shows on the site. We post the recording of the show to our YouTube account, and any presentations like this one that you see here will be included as well, slides, presentations, documents, and any websites that are mentioned sometimes during the shows. We include as well in our recordings. The show, both the live show and our recordings are free and open to anyone to watch, so please do share with your colleagues, friends, neighbors, family, anybody you think might be interested in any of our topics. They are welcome to watch our live show or to watch recordings afterwards. We do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live. Book reviews, mini-training sessions, interviews, web tours of new software and products available. Our only criteria is that it is something library-related. So something libraries are doing, something they could be doing, actual projects and programs and things going on. Sometimes things a little bit out of the box. You might wonder what's this on the show for, but always comes back around to libraries, so trust us. You'll get it by the time we're done. We do have guest speakers that come in sometimes. We also have an Encompass Library Commission staff that do presentations, and that's what we have this morning. To my left here is Sally Snyder, who is here at the Encompass Library Commission. She is our coordinator of children and young adult library services. That's a mouthful. It is a mouthful, but it is what it is. She has an office full of kids and teen books, which is very much coveted by many of us here who like to read those kind of books ourselves. I'm sure some things go, get loaned out from Sally. And what she has for this morning is her annual session on books for the upcoming summer reading program that's coming up this summer. Build a Better Row. So I'll just hand over to you to explain what the new theme is and what's going on with it. And also we should mention the list. There will be a handout available that you're going to send out of. Right. When the recording is done, we'll have a link included with where the list of all of these titles are. Is there something up right now that you said you added to it? There's one up now that was my summer reading program list at conference last October, and I've added titles since then. But if you want to go and look at that one to get a lot of the way there, then it's on our handouts page. If you go to our home page and type in the word handouts in the search box, the top thing that comes up is handouts. And so far they're all my handouts. Nobody else is using that page. I don't know why, but it's okay. Let's see if we can call it up. Can I see? All right. I'm going to try this way. A little bit of experimenting. Yeah. Escape out of the slides for a second. We'll do it this way. Escape. There we go. There we go. All right. That's how we want it now on our website. There we go. Our website is NLC for Nebraska Library Commission. NLC.Nebraska.gov. I don't know why it's there. Back up. Life is interesting. There we go. Now we're backing up. One more time. Okay. We'll do like this. All right. There it is. You just have an H. Go ahead and type H. The first thing that comes up is handouts. Oh, I see. There we go. And Nebraska Library Commission handouts. And there they are. These are all my handouts, like I was saying. So you see there, SRP, Build a Better World. And that is my handout from the conference, like it says there. Now, after today, sometime today, we'll have an updated one. Because there might be some more titles. It will say, I'm going to have a live presentation or something. Okay. So you can start with this one if you want to go grab it and take notes or whatever and follow along. You can get that. Otherwise afterwards you have the full list with additional titles. So hopefully that's helpful. All right. Back to this slide. Okay. All right. Well, for Build a Better World, I was, my brain was thinking of things like construction, which is one of the first topics that brought us this slogan, construction, anything from kids building blocks to actual construction of buildings with different types of equipment. But also, what else is a better world when people help each other, caring about people, just painting something on the side of a building so that it's beautiful instead of just concrete? That's a better world. So a lot of different titles in here trying to think of those types of topics. I like a lot of these topics for summer reading have been, they're not, they have multiple meanings, I guess, so that you don't have to just think building as in construction building, but what do you do to clean water to help the environment, help other people. And so you can look at it like last year. Was last year the heroes one? Or probably years ago there was one about heroes. And last year they did superheroes, but then they did like the police and the firemen and others. Other heroes in your community. Thinking about it different ways, yeah. So the books that I'm going to talk about are ones that I ran across. We receive a number of books from publishers here at the commission, books from preschools through young adult age, and they're from a number of publishers but not everybody, and of course no one sends me all of their titles because I don't think they can afford that. And then I run across other titles at the public library and at the bookstore, and so these are things that I've run across. That doesn't mean it's completely comprehensive because there are titles out there that I didn't spot. So if your favorite book isn't on this list, I'm sorry. I didn't run into it. But we'll go ahead and get started and we're starting with... Oh, can I have the Gizmo? Go ahead. That should be able to go and use the Gizmo. Okay. We'll start with fiction picture books. There it goes. A bear loses his red scarf and it ultimately shelters or entertains a number of other animals, and it is found and lost again over and over. Ultimately, the scarf flutters by an open area around which all the animals are collected. They pounce as one on the scarf and tear it to pieces trying to grab it. The bear finds them all in the snow. He picks up the strength of yarn. He sits down and he begins to knit. Ashamed, the other animals also gather the yarn, help to knit, make a snack, and soon they are all worn together. It's definitely a better world when they share the labor and the results. Vincent van Gogh is ready to paint his house, maybe a nice white. But when he selects from the four types of white on his palette, the spider says, Stop! This is my house and I like red. So Vincent chooses from four reds on his palette, but the caterpillar likes yellow. And so it goes. Vincent is willing to make the animals happy and every one of the eight of them wants a different color. At the end, Vincent says, But actually, this is my house and I like all the colors. Spotches of different colors cover the house and everyone was happy. The last page showing the house at night is an homage to van Gogh and Arnold's nod to a starry night, which kids probably won't catch unless you show them the original painting. But quite fun. Brief text, bright colors and lots of action show the rescue squad helping a girl and her dog who are stranded on their sailboat, a helicopter and boat to the rescue. This is a companion boat to Fire Engine number nine, which I finally got to read the other day from the library and came back in and it also shows the Fire Engine helping people as well. This is the only book I found where a kid is an architect. So it's slightly older, but still lots of fun. Beginning at the age of two, Iggy was building things. His first construction used only diapers and glue and the kids will love the fact that the diapers have this yellow spot on all of them so you know they are used diapers. In second grade, however, his teacher forbid it and his heart sank. For one day, a class picnic on an island showcased Iggy's talent. There was a flood, the bridge got washed out and the only way for them to get back off the island is for Iggy to construct something for them. It's told in rhyming texts and readers will enjoy his various construction projects using pancakes, peaches and other items. I forgot to mention that I read from my piece of paper because Krista won't let me go for three hours which is about how long I'd really like to talk about all these books so this helps me stay on task and get things accomplished. The city neighborhood is drab, brown, gray and blah. A girl who loves to draw and paint thought maybe she should share her colorful art and she handed out papers to people in the neighborhood, taped some of them up on the sides of buildings. A touch of color, then a bit more until everyone is helping to paint colors on more walls, plant flowers and trees and play music. This is fiction based on a true story and there's more information and a few photos at the back of the book which really is wonderful that the neighborhood did that. This is a new one on the list. Drew wanders around the workshop noting the jobs that other tools do and then they ask him, what is your job? He is caught off guard until the sun picks him up taking him outside to the tree house where his job is to hold up the sign, home sweet home. He has a big smile on his face. A cumulative tale starting with a baby gorilla all fordorn who was awakened by a hippo going back through zebra, lion, croc, frog and more to the butterfly who landed next to the bee which made him buzz. But now it is a better world. The baby is happy and delighted with the butterfly and all the other animals are happy the baby is giggling. It's a beautiful morning. Mr. King loves flowers and he loves machines. When he spots a caterpillar munching on a flower he builds a tank-like machine to chase and catch it. What he doesn't realize is his machine is spewing smoke and crushing the flowers. When this is pointed out to him by the other animals he quickly finds a way to correct his mistake and make things better. So sometimes when we think we're helping the world we might actually be causing more trouble. Now look at the big picture. Now we're talking construction here. A magnificent structure is completed while the reader counts bricks in different ways. The repetitive two, four, six, followed by different versions of something, something, the bricks will soon have listeners joining in. There's different kinds of bricks, different sizes, shapes and how you count them and it's building a magnificent structure that they'll be fascinated by. You see different parts of it throughout the book. I found this book in the discount section of Target so you never know where you're going. I'm sure you can buy it on the internet because I checked a while back. It's recessed but when Pete runs outside the equipment is in terrible shape. Principal Nancy gives Pete permission to redo the playground as well as the old equipment to be recycled. In comes the new equipment and soon the cement mixer, backhoe and dump truck are hard at work. At completion it all falls down. But that gives Pete a better idea and soon they have an extra wonderful playground. Some kids will enjoy all the hard work and end result. Edgar loves to build tall, beautiful structures from leftover food. His friend Toby loves to eat leftover food. This causes some disharmony. Edgar leaves to find a place where his work will be appreciated and not eaten. But alas, mice everywhere he visits do eat his creations. When he returns home, Toby has a gift for him and Edgar realizes Toby appreciates his architecture dreams even as he eats them. Mom sends her two daughters outside to enjoy the day. The older daughter is trying to read but the younger one wants her to play. Finally the younger daughter tells her sister, fine, I have a secret tree house and you're not invited. She tells her sister all the wonderful things her tree house has that the sister can't use. Then when the younger admits she made it up the older says, maybe we just need to build it and they begin to draw up their plans. The neighborhood members don't interact and they pretty much keep to themselves but one day Jake starts a change. He thinks about his neighbor who probably cannot climb a tree and picks a basket of mulberries for her. A chain reaction has begun. She bakes a pie and gives it to another neighbor and a brighter, happier neighborhood where people greet and help each other and no one really knows how it started. It includes a repetitive phrase, had a thought he or she hadn't had before which comes throughout the story as they think of their neighbors and thinking they might mean something. I'm just not getting this to work. There we go. Adam and his parents have moved to a city far away from where he grew up. He misses his home. Everything here is different and gray. He draws colorful pictures of animals from his home to remember and when you see his pictures you'll realize that he's from Africa. Soon he meets some children and in school his teacher gives him some seeds from the school garden. He and his friends plant and plant. Now the city is colorful and friends are everywhere. Freddie and Fricho play together at each other's houses and each house has its own set of rules but one day the other house is available to them so they meet in the park and they decide to build a clump house in a tree. They gather supplies and they work hard to build it. They had to fight because they had too much stuff for it but then they had the same idea, build it bigger. Finally it was done and they agreed there would be no rules. They invited neighbors to come to the open house and everyone thought it was great and there were no rules. But their guests were rather free with their hard work jumping on the bed with dirty feet throwing med pies at each other even blowing a nose on the curtains. They find a clever way to get their guests to leave and then they decide they do need one rule. Freddie and Fricho rule. It's a good story about respect for others' properties and why we all need a few rules. A demonstration of build a better world by creating different things combining some basic shapes. Leaders or listeners can then use their imagination to create other things with the shapes. So you'd be in good shape if you got some different designs from what's used in the book and let the kids play with them to make different things. Let's see what they can come up with. I love this one. Real cowboys make a difference. They care for the cats and cattle, watch over the herd, ask for help, take turns and are good to the earth. And yes, they do ride hard and they do other things you think of but they are very caring people too which I really thought was fun to come through. The fix it man, this is great. If you need some Rube Goldberg ideas, this book has it in the front end papers and the back end papers have two different designs. A young boy has built some Rube Goldberg type mechanical processes in his home but he can also repair many things using his variety of tools. Some planning goes into finding a way to limit exposure to his younger sister's dirty diapers. This is his big project now. Rhyming text tells of his attempts, failures and maybe success. A simple story of a new German class who longs for a friend to join for lunch and play with her outside. Soon nearby animals join her because she's sitting outside eating and then some students do too. The next new student who's from outer space is quickly welcomed into the group. Rube text lets the artwork tell the story in soft colors. It promotes sharing and welcoming others without being preachy or didactic. Every day Sophie and Grandpa play a game when she gets home from school. Grandpa will say he had something, the item changes each time, but now it is gone and Sophie must find it for him. The reader can look for it too. This is a lovely story. The girl and her grandpa make the world a better place for each other through their game and their love for each other. There was one I could not find, but some other intrepid librarian found it for me, but otherwise I couldn't find that. Kind of like a weird Waldo thing, finding that funny item thing. This book is about community building and supporting each other. There are three different farms going different foods and then they collect them up and bring them to the market. You have on the farm the first part of the book and then at the market where they sell the things. One of the ladies gathers the different items she needs from the different farmers and then she sells the meal that she has cooked for everybody. If you are looking for community building this is a good choice. There are a couple of other books later on that do that too. This is hilarious. He has his farm dog handbook because he will let you know if you are a new farm dog there are some things you need to know. He has it figured out. His handbook tells farm dogs what hard work there is for them to do and what other animals' jobs are so the dogs don't do those jobs. He explains how farm dogs may really, really want to lie in the mud or sit on the hens' nests, but that is not your job. If you do follow temptation he teaches them how to get biscuits but if you are in the hen house and you shouldn't be and there is a ruckus then you have the fox up on the hill walking by because you made a deal earlier with the fox. The farmer gives you three biscuits and you give one to the fox so you got this going for you. It's great fun and it's a good chance to talk about what farm dogs really do and what other animals do. Otis is a popular character and I don't remember what number but there are several books out about him. The tractor dashes to the barn when he realizes it is burning. He rescues the kittens but then the four breaks under him and he is trapped. The farm animals and later the firemen come to his rescue. Sandy Wallach from Lincoln City Library had this book on her list and this book is the only one she thought of build a better world. What about our world? I didn't think of a single book that had to do with our world so I missed that topic completely. Otis is on our world that as the authors celebrate the many sounds of animals from throughout different habitats three pages at the back of the book give a bit more information about the animals. In the 1950's Ella May and her cousin Charlotte fill a need for their African American community. When Ella May needed new shoes she was not allowed to try on any at the store. Her mother traced the outline of her foot on a piece of paper and that is what they used to select a new pair. They collect new shoes bring them and offer them for sale for 10 cents plus a pair of shoes that way they can continue their project. It's smart, they focus on a solution to this unfair situation and to make things better for their community. There is a brief explanation of the Jim Crow laws at the back of the book and this is a Golden Soar picture book nominee for 2017-2018 for those of you in Nebraska. The house that Zach built this variation of the house that Jack built has Zach with blocks building this yard while the fly, cat, dog and others become involved as a determined cat continues to chase the fly. When the boy sees the mess made by the cat he cleans it up and they all admire the house he has built under the tree with blocks. Kids will enjoy the mess as being made and they also would have been willing to clean it up. I love this one too, this is so fun. Miles heavily starts down the road to take a birthday cake to his friend little bird. Along the way one animal after another asks to trade for a piece of the cake. When he gets to little bird's house there is no cake left. No worries, they walk back the same way trading again for the ingredients for a new cake. Everyone gets something they need though it might not be what you were expecting and that's what I really like about it. When you think the cow is going to want this thing but instead wants that thing it's a lot of fun. A family moves to a different home that needs fixing. Dad and a young boy and girl who go with him for the hardware store. As they find the items their father needs each is lined up on the opposite page with its name. Lots of items are in their cart but when they bring it home mom asks where are the picture hangers? The one thing they went to the store for. She has to be all the time. It's a fun look at tools and their uses and they line up with their names on the page so you remember what they think. Looking forward. This was first published in England. Bert and Ethel each have a large cardboard box and they use them every day while playing outside. They are pirates or astronauts or something else and they are big friends. One day Shue drags up a big box on the top of the hill and asks to play with them. Ethel agrees but Bert does not and he leaves with his box. Bert avoids them until one day they have to come out. They have built a huge box on wheels and it is their new imagination generator bringing the three of them together. Looking at this picture there's just no way they're going to have any trouble or get hurt at all with their imagination. It's just fun. Doesn't that look like fun? This is great fun too. The new cement truck it's its first day on the job. It gets the white powder, mixes in a little water and goes to the job site but he did not get cement. He got flour that makes a cake. He tries again he gets a different white powder but it is not cement. He makes frosting because he got sugar in here. Finally the third time he gets it right and he makes a big cement building but then a little joke at the end he goes one more time to another place he gets some more white stuff it's soap to wash off all the other trucks. Great fun. He has the word flour or sugar above so kids who can read those words will know who's at the wrong place. The author needs to write a story but he has no ideas so he takes his dog Wednesday for a walk along the way they run into people they know people they don't know other animals and his friend tells him I wouldn't worry about it ideas are all around. I say ideas can make the world a better place. In another book by the same author Sam Sanamama gives three dandelion blossoms to a little bird who wants them for her sad friend. He then falls asleep and wakes up to a snowy world worried about the bird in the snow he walks off to find her but finds a mouse instead they find the bird just in time by noticing some out of place dandelions in the snow. Bird and mouse are friends and now all three are friends and they find a cage to weed out the snow. Helping others and making friends equals a better world. This is hilarious too. Every day usually around noon Troll tries to catch the Oliver and eat him. Every day Oliver was too fast and agile and he always got away. One day Troll did not jump out to try and catch him. Oliver was very cautious on the way home but he decided Troll had given up and he began to mix the ingredients for a cake. Then Troll jumped out of the cupboard and gulped down Oliver but he tasted terrible so he spit him out again. Luckily the timer dinged the cake. It turns out Trolls love cake so Oliver and Troll enjoy the cake and then they share it with all the other Trolls. It's clever. It does have one half-case showing Troll jumping out of the cupboard otherwise it's a standard book. The front cover is a cut out there where the boys walk by to open space when we open the books. These are just issues that might be a problem for library books. It's a whole lot of fun. Jack has built an exceptional tree house by the sea. Using the familiar rhyme the author adapted somewhat to highlight the tree house. Jack has lots of contraptions and lots of animal friends and kids will love discovering all the special touches he has put on his tree house. It reminds me of the tree house in Swiss Family Robinson movie which I always thought was wonderful as a kid. I wanted that house. The water princess Joji Badel, a supermodel who lived in Burkina Faso in Africa with this fictional story by Susan Verde of a girl and her mother spending the whole of every day getting water for their family. The girl dreams of clean water near her village and maybe someday it will happen. And Joji Badel, I'm not sure how to say her name has been doing that for communities in Africa. Definitely didactic but parents may appreciate this book and it will be helpful to you if you are teaching good manners to your story time crowd. A girl first demands a fish. I want a fish. And the gentleman says please say please and I'll grant any wish. The girl learns slowly through a ball some food, a kite and a cat then she politely asks for a giant and the gentleman tries to explain how unpredictable a giant can be. No problem says the girl I'm going to teach him to ask politely. So kind of fun. Some nonfiction with a picture book through several different programs for kids to help others are highlighted in this photo essay. Photos dominate the pages with enough text to convey the activity from knitting hats and scarves from tearing litter from a stretch of road to helping train service dogs. So I think it's great to show them what kids are doing in other communities and maybe they'll come up with an idea for their own community. The artist and her pets find odd items on the beach which she uses to create interesting and unusual sculptures for her garden and it shows some photos in the back of the book this is all illustration until you get to the back where the photos are the actual art and her actual artwork. And that guy smiling in the background he's in the photos. It's fun. Plastic bags were commonly commonly used in Numjao, Gambia but when they broke people just dropped them on the ground. They kept piling up and soon they were a breeding spot for mosquitoes to feed them and they made the countryside look ugly. As a two a young woman began to wonder what could be done with them she begins to pick them up, wash them and hang them on the line. Her sister is crocheting and as a two asks to learn soon she and some friends are crocheting purses from the strips of the bags and selling them at the market. This includes an author's note and a glossary at the back of the book. Seeing a problem and finding a solution to it definitely makes the world a better place. And this is also a picture book nominee for 2017 and 18 so another one. Five friends explore and discover their community and the things that make it special. So this is another book about community building and being a part of the community and supporting each other. Some beginning readers, Elephant and Monkey. This is the fifth and final book in the series which makes me sad. Things were too quiet so when Monkey's cousin asks them to babysit and he runs an errand, they say yes. Neither of them has ever babysat before and the children keep them hopping but Monkey makes reasonable rules as the day goes along. Danger appears during nap time with three riff-riff wildcats hoping for a monkey snack. The series closes with Monkey and Elephant agreeing to stay friends forever. And this is the last Elephant and Piggy book. It's really hard to have two lasts in a row. Everything is... It's another Elephant book series, I guess. Piggy realizes how lucky she is and decides to thank everyone who's important to her. Gerald tells us she is going to forget somebody, it's a bad idea. Piggy thinks many, many characters from their books. She even thinks the pigeon for not giving up. And still Gerald says she will forget someone important. Finally Piggy says, oops, and thinks Gerald. But that is not who he meant. Our reader he says and the book closes with the thanks and that they could not be who they are without you. The reader. Now you may be aware that there is a new series as you were just saying. It's called Elephant and Piggy Love to Read or something like that. So the story in the books are not by Mo Willems, they're not Elephant and Piggy stories, but at the beginning of the book and at the end of the book Elephant and Piggy are talking about looking forward to reading it and saying, I love to read. It wasn't just a fun book. It's a great way to continue to get into these guys can say, oh they like this book, so I'll read it too. I'm going to read that too. It's a great idea. Some early chapter books. The Princess in Black. There's four books about her now. This is book three. Princess Magnolia and her unicorn fringle pants are on their way to have brunch with Princess Kneeswort when they are summoned to respond to an emergency. The Princess in Black and her pony Blackie that monsters have escaped from Monsterland but they are cute little bunnies and she doesn't see them as monsters until it is almost too late because they are eating everything. Protecting the Kingdom from Monsters is the Princess in Black's duty which she takes quite seriously. But then she does get to take a vacation. Tired from many battles with monsters from Monsterland, the Princess in Black is glad to take a vacation. The Princess in Black who looks a lot like Duff the Goat Boy promises to protect the goats while she's gone. However, when she relaxes on the beach a sea monster rises out of the ocean and threatens the people on the beach including Princess Kneeswort. So the Princess in Black has to get into action again. This is the 33rd book about horrible Harry. There's more have come after this one. The wooden area just outside the fence around the school yard is where Harry has a secret hideout. The other classmates learn this when Harry sees a for sale sign on the property. They campaign for the school to buy it. It will be a great place for science students. There's a little stream and a little pond there. The class is exuberant when it is announced that the school is going to buy the land and keep the wood in streams for science. I think that would be wonderful if every community could have that as a result of a situation like this. So we know how hard it is to make ends meet for school systems and city budgets. Love this book. I just go buy this one. Put it in the collection. William and Ralphie Ratso try to be as tough as their father. They lost their mother a while back and so every day when he goes to work their father will tell them, we have to be strong, we have to be tough. Whenever they try to be tough at school or at the apartment building they accidentally end up being helpful. Thinking that being nice and helpful is for softies bullying or tricking others. They are surprised that their father was proud of them for being helpful and that he wants to be more like they are. It's humorous and thoughtful. It's their interpretation of what their dad was saying about being tough and being strong and what he really meant and how every time they tried to bully somebody they ended up helping and it was just really fun. And it's a quick read. Lots of illustrations in a short number of pages. The Life of Ty. This is book 2. Second grader Ty Perry's teacher announces that their new project is to do one random act of kindness and give a recitation about it on Friday. Ty asks her how an intentional act of kindness can be random. Sounds like a kid we everybody knows. And that is when she changes the assignment to a non-random act of kindness. By Thursday evening Ty is stressed. Lots has happened that week but no act of kindness he thinks. And talking with his older sister about his week they come to the conclusion that Ty has done several acts of kindness since he is a kind person and being kind is being Ty. And I think that's true that sometimes you don't recognize in yourself the things that are a part of who you are. Something you do as a habit can be that doesn't have to be something you think about. Right. This is Detective Gordon book 2. Detective Gordon and police assistant Buffy are on a new case. They're sad. Investigating separately they each learn that someone is being a bully. Teasing and saying mean and nasty things about others in the forest. But all run away when they're asked for a description. It takes quite a bit of detective work but finally Buffy discovers who the culprit is and why. A sensitive look at allowing others to be who they are and not judge while keeping the rules in the forest. And that's a tricky road to the line. And you can see the tin of cakes that Detective Gordon slapped because they have a tin of cakes for breakfast, lunch, mid-afternoon, afternoon. And he greatly enjoys his cakes. Fiction for grades. Well, it's... Oops, I'm sorry. Let me see if I can back up. Anyway, sorry. I forgot to say this is about the time I remember to say that I put them in categories like this but I know that some kids have used a reader of books older than his grade level and so are some other kids and some kids are reading lower than their grade level but enjoying reading and that's the point. Please help them enjoy reading because they'll catch up if they keep reading. Okay, a little lecture's over now. A container ship thinks in a terrible storm and the only crate to make it to safety on the island held a robot. Ross Wolfap exited her crate and began to learn. The animals living on the island think she is a monster but after she adopts a baby ghost they begin to see that she is no danger. She helps the animals and they help her. Predator and prayer not ignored but there are some peaceful times between the animals too. Nature can be harsh and can be lovely. I look at survival for animals and a robot and some anthropomorphizing as well. And follow-up book is coming out this year. The wild robot escapes I think is the title if I remember right. Rena 12 and her younger brother Luke 7 and their parents moved from New York to Maine during the summer. The change is quite a shock for the kids especially after their parents volunteer them to help the elderly business follow-up. Have you ever had your parents volunteer you to help them? Everybody has. This involves shoveling manure learning to handle the unruly calzora so over time they both learn quite a bit and make some friends. Zora is still unruly though. The title of this is Grayling's song it doesn't show up very well in the picture there. Grayling's mother a wise woman almost to which turns into a tree one morning and her grimoire her book of spells is missing. Before musing her speech her mother sends her out into the world to retrieve the grimoire save her mother and many others of the same fate. During the book's song so she knows which way to go she encounters a few other people of magic who have made to avoid tree status so far but hesitant Grayling must find a way to save them all. Based on the true story from Columbia in this version while fishing on the Amazon Manuela and her father happened upon a manatee which has not been seen in the area for quite some time. Manuela thought it would be great to come home with a manatee meat but once they kill it and find its calf she is determined to protect them. The calf was wounded so Manuela and her cousin take it to their granny for healing. The girls care for it and put a plant together to convince the village to stop hunting manatees. This short book gives insight into the lives being lived along the Amazon and a need to save disappearing creatures. This is glossy one two three this is the fourth book because it started with the 13 story tree house then the next book was the 26th story then the 39 now we have the 52 story tree house. Andy and Terry live in a huge tree house they have every kind of fun thing on different levels this is a wacky silly story about how they need to find their publisher this office has been ransacked and he is missing so he will remind them when their next book is due in his office. Ninja snails, sentient vegetables, a flying Friday car the friend Jill who was in an enchanted sleep a hunger-colored caterpillar who eats everything including two steam rollers are only part of the story. More illustrations than text this 328 page book will appeal to readers of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and other titles with plenty of illustrations. These are always first published in Australia and I understand there's another one out at 13 and that would end up with 65. Ah okay. So this is the first one I read and it was hilarious. Allie is in sixth grade and she struggles to hide her shortcomings and she ends up in the principal's office far too often. When a substitute teacher comes in for teachers having a baby things begin to change. Allie, 12, believes she is slow and stupid she can't read it all and she must hide it but her new teacher recognizes her intelligence and believes she has dyslexia. His comment, if you judge a fish by how well it can climb a tree everyone will believe it is dull and stupid. Interesting characters including her older brother Travis who has the same problem but will bring the story to life. Humor and adventure and a bit of mystery Sophie Brown, 12 and her family must adjust to moving from the city to a run down farm they inherited from her great uncle Jim. She builds a better world for the quite unusual chickens and for her new friends she makes after they get there. The unusual chickens kind of repay her with unusual eggs so I'm kind of hoping there's a sequel to this because it was a lot of fun with those eggs. She wants these chickens and she's trying to get them away from the girl so you have to watch out for her. A dog rescues two children lost in the snow and he takes them to his owner's home. He's not there, her food and warmth. Told in free verse, the dog can talk with children and poets. That's how the story goes. It's touching and heartfelt. This is a short book told all in letters. The first letter is from the younger brother who was in England during World War II and the last letter in the book is also from the younger brother. All the rest of the letters are from the older brother writing back to his younger brother Charlie. Joe is now in England during World War II and he's helped Charlie, who's Tim, in Cleveland handle things at home. A bully and to recognize what a great brother he has. I do have to mention that the nasty bully in Joe's outfit is from Elkhorn, Nebraska. Sorry. I know bullies come from everywhere. I just thought I'd mention that he's in the boat. Buzz hates Friday the 13th. It has always brought him misery. This year though, he and his new friend Mary find that they must evade Loki and his minions, find the day gods, reunite them with their hidden ruins before Loki destroys the world. Oh, and they need to get the perpetual Saturday to end too. This is all complete in one title, which the plot sounds like a series of at least four books. No, this is all in this one, which I thought was great. Fighting fear is doing what is right, saving the world. Good family dynamics for Buzz, except this mom is missing in the Amazon. But Mary's family is falling apart. This short fictional story tells a family lost in a blizzard and the determined cattle dog who found them. This will engage children in a discussion while this is fiction and it's not based on a true story even though I really, really wanted it to be. Could a dog really figure this out? I think that would be a great discussion because the family gets caught in a quick, hard blizzard they can't see where they're going and they end up walking to make a depression so they can duck down out of the wind. And every once in a while, the father stands up and lets go a whistle. Well, the cattle dog can hear it. So he comes over to them but they won't follow the dog because they don't know where he's going. So the dog ends up rounding up the cattle, driving the cattle to where the people are, then driving the cattle back home again so the people can walk out follow the trail and get help. Could a dog figure that out? Yeah. I have you watched last season. I don't know. Wonderful story and with illustrations too. I love Hamster Princess. This is book two. Harriet the Hamster Princess adventure to deportment. In her search for more adventure, she encounters a fairy who sends her on a quest to solve the mystery of the 12 dancing mouse princesses. Oh, and the fairy loads her a magic cloak. Book one was Harriet the Invincible that came out in August of 2015. Book three rat punzle. Princess Harriet Hamsterbone continues to seek those needing help or rescue when her friend Wilbur asks for her help and Harriet comes out in May. Stolen from Heady, his friend the Hydra, the two run across a rat with a very long tail. Rat punzle has never been out of the tower she lives in and Harriet is suspicious of her mother, Mother Gothel. Can Harriet successfully accomplish two rescues at one time? Book four comes out in May and it's called Giant Trouble. It's based on Jack and the Beanstalk. Doesn't the fairy tale each one there theme doing? Yeah. There are several stick dog books but this is the first stick cat. Stick cat and his friend and neighbor eat it a bit of a ditch live in high in an apartment building in the city. They follow a routine of getting together after their people leave. There's a hole in the wall between their bedroom cabinets that they can get through. The usual day is not exciting but today is an exception. They are listening to the piano turner from the store across the street when a cement truck fell and the vibrations caused the piano to fall on the tuner's arms trapping him. So they are off to the rescue riding across the street in an apron pocket on the clothesline because caring about your neighbors is a great way to build a better world. And there is more stick cat to come. And we had Tom Watson on one of our encompassed lives when I talked about one book for Nebraska kids which last year was stick dog and he does a great thing on there of how to draw stick dog and his friends. So go find that. He has a video online so you can use that to help your kids in your story time or whatever to draw their own. So take a look at that if you have a chance and we'll look for it when we go to show them where the archives ones are. Is that okay? I love high low. It's pronounced high low. This is the first book in the series. It's called High Low. And in this, DJ Lem at 7 believes the only thing he is good at is being friends with his next door neighbor Gina. But then she moved away. Three years later, so he's now 10, DJ sees High Low fall to earth and defense him. High Low has problems with memory so DJ helps him with things like he needs to wear more than his silver underwear. And now Gina has moved back. Soon the three of them are fighting monsters from outer space and it turns out that there's plenty of action, heroism, and humor and a cliffhanger ending. But do not despair because booktunes, giving the whole wide world is out. The story continues from book one with a quick reminder of what happened before. High Low then returns to a portal and the friends prepare to defend earth from invading features sent by Razorwalk, the ultimate villain. But again, a cliffhanger ending. But book three, oh I haven't seen it. It came out in February. The title is The Great Big Boom. Yeah, so I better see it. You can tell I've been getting these from the public like that, so I better look for that. They're a lot of fun and it's a great trio of well I guess there's only two people in one robot. Some nonfiction for grades two to five or so. The town of Greensburg, Kansas was leveled by a tornado in 2007. The community thought carefully about rebuilding and decided to go green. The book describes some of the buildings and the efforts through the eyes of a boy. He's a fictional boy, I believe. His family rebuilt after the storm. This is the inspiring story of the difference one community can make and it includes plenty of rebuilding scenes and details for construction lefers too. That last part was from Amazon. A direct quote from Amazon. Because they said it so well. I think it's wonderful. If you're talking about building green, this is a good book to start with for the kid. This is an interesting book. This approaches the big bang and what came after as far as we know now as a construction guide how to build your own planet and everything. It gives brief information on many things in space and plenty of cartoon-like illustrations add to the text. The subtitle kind of says it all. The incredible story of Henry Berg, founder of the ASPCA in front of Animals is the biography of a man who never owned a pet but cared about the kind of life they lived. It includes chapter break-ins giving information on people, political situations, terminology, and or customs of the time to give leaders a better understanding of what he was up against. This is amazing. As it says up there, the young readers a version of his book for adults about his life. It's the true story of a boy and young man as he turns to a young man whose interest in science led him to use the school library in a small town in Malawi. He went to school after the drought, nearly took everything. He looks in the dump and deserted areas for leftover wire and other broken things he can use and he builds a windmill that provides electricity to his family's home and then to others in town and soon he was on his way. So he started with nothing and built because he just couldn't stop. I've heard this story about him using his library to figure out what he tried to do. It's a photo essay by a well-known author and it introduces the reader to the endangered amur leopard, its habitats and life cycle. Plans to establish a separate population in another area they formerly inhabited will ensure the leopards continued their existence and I think saving endangered animals is a great way to keep our world a better world. Along with that is her book about the great monkey rescue. Excellent photographs draw the reader into this account of the efforts to create the golden lion tamarin monkey and restore them to the wild. Researcher Deborah Kleiman discovered the reasons tamarins did not breed well in captivity and after adjusting from housing them in large groups to family groups the animals began to increase their number and some have been returned to the wild now. It's a great success story and look at that picture how could you not care about those guys. A look at how humans have used the earth and a plea to take care of it told in brief rhyming text with wonderful art by Wendell so I didn't have a book about earth didn't I? Oh yay! Not as bad as I thought it was. Growing both a variety of plants and the new nation consumed Jefferson's time. This brief look at his contributions to our nation and to sharing successful plants for the farmers of our country establishing a market overseas for their produce. It's an interesting look at our third president. He was not mentioned until the Thomas Today item at the back of the book. The author leaves it to the reader to decide about the conundrum of owning slaves and stating all men are created equal. Some teen titles I don't have as many as I usually do. I kept looking. I didn't find any for older teens but here's a number for younger teens. Favorite wonderful sixth grade teacher Ms. Bixby is ill and must leave before the end of the school year. When she leaves earlier than expected her first eve and brand decide to skip school and bring an appreciation event to her since she missed the one planned at school. During this one day the reader discovers much about the three boys and their teacher and how a well planned trip can go so wrong on their way to the hospital. Their thoughtfulness conveys all they wanted to say to their teacher. It's touching amazing and heartbreaking. This is a title you must talk about. This is fictional about three real girls and women being women. It's told in free verse. So the 1660's they talk about Maria Zabilla Marian. She was an observer to help discover metamorphosis in moss and butterflies. In 1809 plus Mary Anning discovered fossil she found the first ichthyosaur skeleton and 1831 Mariah Mitchell found a new comet. So this again it's very interesting and really very readable though told in free verse. Sequoia's determination and efforts to bring writing to the Cherokee language is told by this fictional son who tells of reconciling with his father and becoming involved in changing people's minds that it wasn't witchcraft but a way of written communication. It also gives a sense of the daily life in a Cherokee village in the 1820's from the viewpoint of rural Holly. It contains history, humor, family situations, friendship issues and more in a fictional look at the honored man. He began working on it in 1809 and the language was adopted by the Cherokee nation in 1821. I think that Joseph Bruschoff found a good way to present this by using the fictional route to convey what had been going on. It's told in free verse. It provides a fictional look at Antonio Chuffet, a real boy in the 1870's who helped some slaves escape freedom, escape to freedom and wrote about the plight of the Chinese indentured servants. Antonio hopes words and diplomacy will win freedom but one friend Wing takes a more violent route and Fan contemplates the lack of possibilities for women. This is written the same vein as her book The Lightning Dreamer and I think it's written in this format because now I should remember the other one that I lost. This takes place in Cuba as it says there, Cuba's for you. This book is so fun. Nina, 13, decides to spend the summer before 9th during 65 acts of kindness since there are 65 days of summer. She wonders if there will make any difference and starts out kind of by accident. She noticed her neighbor sitting in the front yard looking all sad because she had a cast on her leg and her annuals were sitting in their little cups and she couldn't plant them. She wasn't able to get down and dig in the dirt and plant her annuals in the front yard. So she went back into the house and that night Nina went over and planted them for her and that was her first act of kindness and that's when she decided maybe I'll do this every day. She lives in a cul-de-sac so it's a limited number of people she could help. She does discover what her brother and his friends are up to and that's not such a good thing but they're drinking in one of the empty houses in the cul-de-sac. That gets resolved. I just want to let everyone know before we go on. It is a little after 11 but that's okay. If you need to log off because you only had an hour or the official hour for this time that's fine but we'll go until so I've gotten through her whole list and if you have any questions or comments about any of her top books or any of your own ideas the whole thing will be recorded and you'll be able to watch anything you might have to miss later. One might send the recording off to you guys. We're going to keep going until we're done. Perfect. This is Gordon Corman so if you have Gordon Corman fans in your library then you're already putting this on your list to buy. Cameron Boxer who's 13 and in 8th grade and his two best friends are completely focused on practicing for the gaming competition through the world. Then his parents demand he join any club at school to socialize and take some time away from the video game. Well they can't afford to take any time away from their video game so the three create a club they think no one will know about the Positive Action Group or PAG. Now his parents allow Cam to game away because he's part of the PAG until some students find it on the school's webpage to join it and do good deeds. How can Cam keep up the pretense? Told from varying points of view Cam, his best friends Turbo, do-gooder, Daphne Mr. Fanshawe, the school counselor and others. It's humorous and a bit inspiring with bullying and good deeds. This is a slightly older book but really fits in with the theme. Two stories in two different decades. Naya is 11 in 2008-2009 and it is her job to walk for water for the family twice a day kind of like the water princess. The trip takes her all morning and the second takes her all afternoon. Selva's story begins in 1985 when he is 11 at the beginning of the book when the war comes to his village. The teachers tell the boy to run into the bush and not go home. Selva soon becomes one of the lost boys of the Sudan. How these stories converge may surprise readers and it is based on true story. Some nonfiction starting with January 1st this book has an idea for each day of the year. There are sure to be some ideas you and or your teams will want to do for your community. Some of them are a little more involved and some of them are pretty basic and easy to accomplish but 365 ideas is a wonderful result from this little paperback book. This is the biography of Pete Seger who was a lifelong activist and advocate for the poor. As a book says on page 3, though he came from financial privilege, he identified with those who had to make a living. He fought for the oppressed and poor all his life. And this is Be a Changemaker is a guide for teens who want to make the world a better place. This includes helping teens make a plan, find donations and execute their plan while being aware of potential legal issues and other concerns. It is a realistic look of what needs to be done to accomplish the goal the team has in mind. So this is a more involved look at what you might want to accomplish as compared to the first book I talked about which is a more simple here's something you can do. This one is really geared to a project that's going to be more long term where you may need to raise money and you want to follow. That's why you need to know all those more legal related, yeah. So it's very helpful for that and that's all I have like I said I didn't have any fiction for older teens I don't know why and look. So if you know some fiction for older teens Does anybody have any ideas? Let me know. It's unusual to not run into anything. Yeah, just type into the questions section of your GoToWebinar interface. I'm following that here. Let me pop that open. But hopefully if somebody doesn't have any ideas you can send them to Sally here at the Library Commission. If anybody knows of any else I'll put their head right now. Let's Yeah, just go ahead and close that. And then, yeah. Okay, here's that. Now we want to go to Holly. Sure. Yeah, so obviously if you have any ideas of books, titles, type them in. But we'll show you what we're going to look at. Oh, the stick dog and everything. Yes, okay. On our Encompass Live There it is. Website. You can also just Google Encompass Live if you do where the only thing that comes up, which is nice. So you get to our website from there. And I'll see that Nebraska.gov slash Encompass Live is a website. All of our recordings and today's recording will be here as well. Are here. And it was I looked it up. It was September. Here we go. September 21st just last fall. We had maybe one book for your state, your city, whatever here in Nebraska. So I've been doing one for quite a few years. One book for Nebraska kids and teens. And we did have Tom Watson was on with us. So if you want to watch that recording of him showing how to do the drawing at the beginning. Almost the first hour is me talking about the program and how it works. So if you don't want to hear me talk about that, just pull that thing on until you get to almost an hour and then Tom Watson takes over. He was hilarious. It was so much fun. He was very good. Yes, that was fun. So that recording is there. This is also where, as I was going to show you, the recording for today's show will be at the top of the list here. It's the most up to date. The most recent ones are first in the list. We'll have the presentation will be there from the handouts page that Sally showed you. And we'll have an updated one on there as well for you with all the books that were mentioned. And the recording will be there as well. So look for that. Most likely later this afternoon, if everything processes as quickly. We've got upload things to YouTube and whatnot. So hopefully that'll get done as quickly as needed and I'll send you guys all an email when it is available. So that will wrap it up for today's show. Nobody checked in any ideas for other books, but you've got a whole lot here to work with and I'm sure there might be other ones out there that you could find. So that will wrap it up for today's show. I hope you enjoyed this. Next week on our topic is Small and Rural Libraries Leading with TV White Space. TV White Space is something similar to using Wi-Fi for your Internet. It's been made available to organizations and libraries out there. And we have a librarian from San Jose State University, Kristen Rebemann will be on with us along with Dan Means, who's from the Kigibit Libraries Network, has been working with us for a long time. Quite a few years about trying to get libraries in rural areas. Using this level of technology to get Internet to your communities and to your library. So definitely sign up for us. For that show next week and any of the other shows you see on our schedule here. I've got other ones I'm working on for April and May as well, so keep an eye on the schedule. Always adding the new ones as we get them finalized. So end of the slide is on Facebook. So if you are a big Facebook user you can pop over there and and and this you have a reminder here. I always post on our Facebook page when new shows have been scheduled. That's coming up next and the recordings are available. Here's your reminder to log in to today's show on the fly. So if you are big on Facebook, give us a like over there to keep up with what's going on and cut this live. Other than that that wraps up for today's show. Thank you very much for attending. Thank you very much, Sally. Actually since we did start a little after 10 I think we got to an hour in reality. Not easy to do. It is. Alright. Thank you and awesome good ideas that you shared books. It's always good. I always get ideas for this and I mentioned Sally when she in the fall does the session at our conference. Book ideas just for gifts for any kids or teens that I know. So I'm always waiting for that. So thank you very much wrap it up for today's show and we'll see you next time on Encompass Live. Bye-bye.