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I know many parents and visitors to this site are frequently on the hunt for captivating books for their older readers..and lucky me, I just discovered a new one!
Southern Gothic by Middle Grade/YA author Bridgette Alexander is a wonderful new book which incorporates art and mystery in very intriguing ways. I learned of Bridgette and this intriguing book when so became one of our Author Sponsors for Multicultural Children’s Book Day in January.
Celine Caldwell lives a life of privilege, allowed into the elite art community of NYC thanks to her powerhouse mother who is a curator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Julia Caldwell has made a prestigious name for herself in the art community. With that comes loyal followers as well as fervent enemies, and Celine soon gets wrapped up in her mother’s political and backwards world.
Two paintings have gone missing from the Met’s archives, paintings that Julia Caldwell publicly deemed unfit for the Met’s prestigious reputation and her selective exhibitions. Julia’s attitude towards the paintings pinpoints her as the head suspect in the NYPD’s investigation into the missing paintings. Celine cannot stand by and let her mother be accused of something she knows she would never in a million years do. Julia may not appreciate the paintings, but she would most certainly never steal them.
Celine and her best friends Sandy, Baheera, and Troy jump right into their own investigation, unaware just how over their heads than they are. But Celine soon realizes that there’s much more to these paintings than meets the eye. While they might seem simple on the surface level, they tell a story—a true story at that, one that is near to a lot of people’s hearts and forces Celine and her friends to relive a murky time in the American South’s history.
Despite the mystery and the danger that follows her investigation, Celine manages to crack the code, piece together the story behind the missing paintings, and clear her mother’s name. All while dating a new guy and managing to stay in school. I’d call that a success, wouldn’t you say?
Learning about Art from Southern Gothic:
I actually learned a lot about art in this novel. I enjoy looking at art, but I cannot say I’m necessarily profound in my analyses of them. But Celine Caldwell taught me a lot. For instance, a provenance is a record of ownership of a work of art, used as a guide to authenticity and quality. Celine’s investigation involved creating a provenance for the Southern Gothic art trilogy.
Pieces of art have been used as legal documents in the past. The Marriage of Arnolfini depicts a wedding of the Italian Medici family, and it basically serves as a marriage licence. Portrait d’une Negresse depicts an African-American woman after she was freed from slavery and brought to France. This painting serves as her ticket of freedom, showing that she is a free citizen, not a slave.
You’ll have to involve yourself in Celine’s investigation to learn more.
Bridgette R. Alexander is a modern art historian. She received her graduate training in 19th century French art history at the University of Chicago. Alexander worked with some of the world’s greatest museums in New York, Paris, Berlin and Chicago and developed art education programs; curated exhibits; she has taught and published in art history. She’s been featured in a number of publications including, Art + Auction Magazine; the Wall Street Journal; and the Washington Post. SOUTHERN GOTHIC is her debut novel. Alexander currently lives in Chicago and when not writing, she takes her husband, daughter and friends on midnight tours of the cultural institutions.
Something To Do: Interesting Links if you’re interested in getting more involved in the art community:
Art
Art Museums Around the World
Met Museums Kids and Family Resources
The answer to the question “Why the arts are important.”
Planning a visit to France? You have to stop at the world’s biggest museum, Le Louvre. And I’d plan your day around this massive museum. You can get lost for hours in this magnificent building.
Happy reading!
Speaking of art…Do you know what Hans Christian Andersen liked as much as his fairy tales?
Paper! He was an addict to paper. He wrote on it, he drew on it and he use to cut in it. Just like a sculptor carves the figure out of stone, Hans Christian Andersen use to cut his stories out of paper. In fact he was a very popular paper cutter. (images courtesy of the Odense Museum)
In order to amuse his friends and their children, Hans made his very famous paper cuts. Wherever he would go he would carry his bag filled with paper and these very large monstrous scissors which he used to cut out the most elegant figures.
Would you like to create a very special item that is inspired by the paper cuttings of Hans Christian Andersen?
I’ve made a FREE off the shoulder felt story bag craft and tutorial just for this occasion! This simple craft is something the whole family can participate in creating it will make a delightful gift for the book lover in your life. I hope your little bag of tales holds as many wonders for you as ours has.
Click the image below and get instant access to this Hans Christian Andersen-inspired shoulder bag!
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As usual, I have seen a TON of great activities, booklists and suggestions from other bloggers involving Keeping Kids in the Reading Habit this Summer during this last week and I’d like to share my favorites with you today. Enjoy!
8 Tips to Prevent the Summer Reading Slide at Growing Book By Book
24 Books That Will Captivate Your Kids This Summer via Huffington Post Parents
Kim at I’m Not the Nanny has an awesome blog post on 18 Diverse Children’s Chapter Book Series for Summer Reading
Multicultural Children’s Blog has their own wonderful reading series called Read Around the World Summer Reading Series. Quality blogger from all over the blogasphere are offering up their choices on multicultural books for kids so please stop by, click a few, and find some excellent new reads!
Hot giveaway and booklistat PragmaticMom! 10 Books to Expose Kids to a Foreign Language
I also wanted to share a few guest posts from last summer’s Discover Your World Summer Reading Extravaganza because there were some true gems during those 2014 summer months. Here are a few
The Adventures of Achilles by Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden {Guest Post by Hannah Rials}
AND…::drum roll: my 2015 Book-Jumper Summer Reading Series kicks of June 4th! I promise to offer up exciting, creative, unique and innovative ways to keep your kids reading this summer. There will be many book reviews, giveaways and crafts to keep those little minds active while school is out. The fun starts June 4th so be sure and stop back!
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Enjoy more month-by-month activities based on the classic children’s tale, The Secret Garden! A Year in the Secret Garden is a delightful children’s book with over 120 pages, with 150 original color illustrations and 48 activities for your family and friends to enjoy, learn, discover and play with together. AND, it’s on sale for a limited time! Grab your copy ASAP and “meet me in the garden!” http://amzn.to/1DTVnuX
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The post Weekend Links: Keeping Kids in the Reading Habit this Summer appeared first on Jump Into A Book.
Guest Post by Hannah Rials
Every mother and grandmother have heard the poem of the old woman who swallowed the fly.
It is ridiculous of course, but how can you help but share this enjoyably silly poem with your children?
Simms Talbac’s Caldecott Honor books brings life to this crazy old woman with her crazy illustrations and entertaining side notes. Now we get to see what goes on inside the stomach of the woman who swallowed the horse, cow, dog, cat, bird, spider, and fly. Kids will love these crazy illustrations and every night will want to hear the story of the crazy old lady who swallowed the fly and went to the ends of the earth to have that fly taken care of. Don’t let this story die along with the crazy old lady!
Fun Activities to bring this crazy old lady to life:
1. Make your own Fly-eating Matryoshka (or Russian Nesting) Dolls:
What You’ll Need:
-A blank wooden set (which can be found on
Amazon or maybe at local craft stores)
-Gouche or acrylic paint
-Varnish
What to Do:
Well, instead of making the traditional Russian Nesting dolls (young women), you are going to paint the poor old lady and all the critters she swallowed.
1. First is the old lady herself, pictured here. But she can look however your imagination sees her.
2. The amount of nesting dolls you have dictates how many of the old lady’s critters you can have her swallow. But if you have enough for them all, nest is the horse
3. Then the Cow
4. The Dog
5. The Cat
6. The Bird
7. The Spider
8. And finally, the Fly that started it all.
After you paint all the critters, let the paint dry and cover them in your varnish. Once they are dry, you are free to play with your own “The Old Lady Who Swallowed the Fly” nesting dolls! Have fun!
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What fun “The Old Lady Who Swallowed the Fly” activities have you found?
Born in the hills of Louisiana and raised in the mountains of Tennessee, Hannah Rials is a eighteen year-old aspiring author and editor. She’s been writing short stories since she was a little girl, but for the past several years, she has been writing, editing, and reediting a novel of her own that she hopes to publish in the near future. Hannah has always loved reading and the world of books. With a librarian grandmother who can tell the most magical stories, how could she not fall in love with the written word. Her library collection and love for books grows every day.
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The Internet is just a buzzin with planning, thoughts and activity prep for the upcoming summer reason. If you are like me, this time of year when school and is ending and summer is beginning is met with with a mixture of excitement and dread. Excitement for all the fun family plans, adventures and travel you may be working on, but also dread for the time of year when reading activity slides and our young ones are easily bored stiff.
As usual, I have seen a ton of great activities, booklists and suggestions from other bloggers and I’d like to share my favorites with you today. I would also like to share and remind readers of some of the top booklists and summer reading activities that have appeared right here on JIAB, and post that will Build a Summer Reading List So Kids Can Discover our World. Enjoy!
We’ve done a whole series called Read Around the Continents over the course of these last 12 months and these blog posts are chocked full of great book suggestions about different cultures and continents:
Read Around The Continents: 24 Children’s Books About Western Europe
Speaking of Global Booklists…here’s an awesome one!
Crafty Moms Share: Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Lots of great booklist ideas!
A Mighty Girl Heroes: Inspiring the Next Generation of History Makers has a list of great books featuring Mighty Girls.
25 Books That Diversify Kids’ Reading Lists This Summer via @Mind Shift
What good summer reads have you found?
The post WEEKEND LINKS-Build a Summer Reading List So Kids Can Discover our World appeared first on Jump Into A Book.
Can you believe school DONE?!!? Ack! Now everyone is kicking into “summer reading gear” and Jump Into a Book is no different. This year I decided to “mix it up” a bit and invite some of the many amazing bloggers and reading/play advocates that I know to stop by and share their knowledge and creativity with the JIAB readers.
PLUS it will offer kids and parents some cool new reading ideas and activities for summer.
Summer reading programs are abundant after school ends. It’s our goal to not only create an ongoing summer reading booklist with activities option for parents, but also work to keep the focus on helping our young readers be Global Citizens. We would like to focus on books that will help our kiddos explore their world and keep our initiative of multicultural books for kids in the forefront of people’s minds too. To achieve this, I created the Discover Your World Summer Reading Extravaganza.
This fun summer reading and activity event will run from June 1 to Sept 1 and we encourage your to keep stopping by Jump Into a Book during this time to view all of the booklists, book reviews, crafts, recipes and activities my guest bloggers will be sharing!
Here is our first guest for the Discover Your World Summer Reading Extravaganza, Shannon Medisky from SCIKite.com
Stand Tall, but Read All Around! Book Review and Activity by Shannon Medisky
I’ve got two little boys reading at drastically different levels. So finding books that we can all enjoy together can admittedly be a little difficult. Fortunately, though, I’ve found one particular book that fit that bill nicely, and I came up with a fun, creative way to help us all enjoy the book both together and individually, too.
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell and illustrated by David Catrow is a picture book that’s wonderfully easy to read aloud and beautifully unpredictable. Little Molly Lou is just that—little—and she gets bullied and picked on in many different ways because of it. But little Molly Lou surprisingly finds some pretty big ways to transform all her differences into advantages.
Lovell is an author and a teacher, and admitted in an interview that Molly Lou is “a spunky, self-possessed little girl who she admires.” And while “self-possessed” may initially sound like a bad thing, I’ve discovered it’s exactly the right thing to teach my kids about how to be good global citizens.
Wait! Don’t stop reading yet, but go ahead and readjust yourself and get comfortable because what I’m about to share might go against the grain a little bit. It admittedly might rub you the wrong way. After all, isn’t self-centeredness the exact opposite of what we should be teaching our kids to be? I disagree. Here’s why.
As I shared earlier, I have 2 sons. My biological son is 9 years old and typically developing. He meets and exceeds all his developmental and academic benchmarks at school. He towers over his peers and is nearly as tall as his dad already. My youngest son is nearly 8 years old. He’s also adopted and of a different ethnicity than everyone else in our family. He also happens to have many special needs, an intellectual disability, speech and communication issues and he’s legally blind to boot. And as if that weren’t enough, Mark’s also a little person, making finding his school uniform clothing in sizes 18month and 2T significantly challenging!
I share all of this because both my boys have struggled with bullying. My older son because he is so much bigger than everyone else, and my younger son because he is so much smaller and has so many special needs. Both my sons struggle with the same problem but in very different ways. Ironically enough, though, I’ve found that the best way to help both of them is encourage them to look inside themselves for their self-worth, discover and create their own strengths not in spite of their differences but because of them—just like little Molly Lou does in this book!
We enjoyed this book together as a read aloud first, making it a fast favorite. The story is anything but predictable due to Molly Lou’s creativity and David Catrow’s charmingly messy illustrations bring her character to life in believable ways. But perhaps what made this book the most fun was the activity I came up with after we shared the book together.
Because Nate can now read independently, I admittedly steer him towards chapter books and more challenging nonfiction. But just as it’s a mental break, a reprieve, for many adults to pick up and read a magazine, so can returning to a less-challenging picture book manuscript help older, independent readers reignite a love for reading. So, as you can imagine, Nate invited this opportunity wide-eyed and whole-heartedly. Mark, on the other hand, couldn’t wait to get his hands on the book and “read” it independently by revisiting the pictures all by himself.
I wanted to come up with an activity that supported what Molly Lou was and what echoed what both my boys are, too. I wanted the boys to experience reading in all the different rooms of the house. I wanted them to experience concretely and personally how even different surroundings can profoundly affect one experience. They shared the book together, laying on their tummies in the dining room as the summer sun spilled across the pages. Nate read it aloud to Mark as they sat criss-cross applesauce on the cold, tile floor of the laundry room. But, by far and away, hands down, the most popular room in the house was reading in the bathroom, while lying inside a cool but dry bathtub! With that in mind, I’m attaching a free (optional) printout/downloadable resource for parents to use with this activity idea! Click HERE to download your own copy.
Maybe little Molly Lou has it exactly right after all. Maybe encouraging kids to be a little more “self-possessed” can help them better withstands the bullying that will unfortunately, but likely always come their way. But at the same time, doing so can help build self-confident, tolerant, more respectful global citizens, too.
Shannon Medisky is on a mission to inspire innovative thought in kids while simultaneously igniting a passion for science. In short, Shannon seeks to make science go BOOM! So children’s futures can take off, too.
A former classroom teacher and current writer, Shannon presents science concepts in fun, easy-to-understand ways, helping kids to understand that science isn’t just a “what” but “how” also. Additionally, she challenges kids to think critically, creatively and differently, encouraging an entrepreneurial approach to learning and failure along the way. The result is true education reform one child at a time, empowering kids to affect positive change in their own lives now while simultaneously equipping them for what lies ahead.
Her articles have been featured in many prominent magazines such as Exceptional Parents, Adoptive Families, Hybrid Mom, Mothering and Focus on the Family’s Thriving Family.
To learn more about Shannon, visit ShannonMedisky.com or connect with her on Facebook.
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