Comments on: >Old home week http://www.hbook.com/2010/02/news/old-home-week/ Publications about books for children and young adults Tue, 14 May 2013 17:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: IrreverendAmy http://www.hbook.com/2010/02/news/old-home-week/#comment-9644 IrreverendAmy Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:44:38 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3447#comment-9644 >I seem to recall the same rumor about all-you-can-eat ice cream night at my alma mater (Wesleyan). Maybe it's an urban legend, told of and at every liberal-arts college in the country. Or maybe I'm inventing it. It was a long time ago and the state of my memory is such that I'm doing well even to remember where I went to college. >I seem to recall the same rumor about all-you-can-eat ice cream night at my alma mater (Wesleyan). Maybe it's an urban legend, told of and at every liberal-arts college in the country. Or maybe I'm inventing it. It was a long time ago and the state of my memory is such that I'm doing well even to remember where I went to college.

]]> By: Roger Sutton http://www.hbook.com/2010/02/news/old-home-week/#comment-9568 Roger Sutton Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:53:51 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3447#comment-9568 >Betty, ALSC is both cleaning up some confusing language and proposing changing the age of children served within the scope of ALSC's mission. Right now it is preschool through age fourteen/eighth-grade, but the Board proposes changing it to birth through thirteen. There is no controversy about the birth end of things but quite a bit about fourteen to thirteen. The overlap with YALSA (which covers twelve through eighteen, I think) periodically results in turf wars between the divisions, and I thought I read that this latest results from YALSA asking ALSC to drop down to twelve, from where, presumably, YALSA would pick up. Personally, I think the overlap is fine and reflects the way youth library services are provided in this country. Any change would also mean that all the book award committees would have to rewrite their charges, which is a nightmare of red tape. >Betty, ALSC is both cleaning up some confusing language and proposing changing the age of children served within the scope of ALSC's mission. Right now it is preschool through age fourteen/eighth-grade, but the Board proposes changing it to birth through thirteen. There is no controversy about the birth end of things but quite a bit about fourteen to thirteen. The overlap with YALSA (which covers twelve through eighteen, I think) periodically results in turf wars between the divisions, and I thought I read that this latest results from YALSA asking ALSC to drop down to twelve, from where, presumably, YALSA would pick up. Personally, I think the overlap is fine and reflects the way youth library services are provided in this country. Any change would also mean that all the book award committees would have to rewrite their charges, which is a nightmare of red tape.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2010/02/news/old-home-week/#comment-9561 Anonymous Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:39:23 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3447#comment-9561 >HI Roger, I don't get what you mean about age level of service. Service for what? thanks for clarifying. <br /><br />betty t<br />tiselfar at visi dotcom >HI Roger, I don't get what you mean about age level of service. Service for what? thanks for clarifying.

betty t
tiselfar at visi dotcom

]]> By: Candace Ryan http://www.hbook.com/2010/02/news/old-home-week/#comment-9526 Candace Ryan Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:42:50 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3447#comment-9526 >Great fun was had by all watching Roger Rabid go after those pesky parental affirmation guides posing as picture books. <br /><br />Still, it could be fun to have an "I love you more than that other book loves you" award. Maybe the trophy could be a bottle of syrup? >Great fun was had by all watching Roger Rabid go after those pesky parental affirmation guides posing as picture books.

Still, it could be fun to have an "I love you more than that other book loves you" award. Maybe the trophy could be a bottle of syrup?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2010/02/news/old-home-week/#comment-9525 Anonymous Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:28:26 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3447#comment-9525 >Yeah, a model for what happens when Thornton Burgess channels the Apostle Paul. <br /><br />~mwt >Yeah, a model for what happens when Thornton Burgess channels the Apostle Paul.

~mwt

]]> By: Roger Sutton http://www.hbook.com/2010/02/news/old-home-week/#comment-9524 Roger Sutton Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:20:51 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3447#comment-9524 >Ah, selfless Angela, "who has agreed to become a pumpkin pie." She's a role model for us all. >Ah, selfless Angela, "who has agreed to become a pumpkin pie." She's a role model for us all.

]]> By: Roger Sutton http://www.hbook.com/2010/02/news/old-home-week/#comment-9523 Roger Sutton Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:19:16 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3447#comment-9523 >Oh, Lisa, you California moms are all alike, letting the kids walk all over you and getting ponies <i>and</i> clowns at their birthday parties. >Oh, Lisa, you California moms are all alike, letting the kids walk all over you and getting ponies and clowns at their birthday parties.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2010/02/news/old-home-week/#comment-9522 Anonymous Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:07:36 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3447#comment-9522 >I was particularly inspired by the story of Angela the Pumpkin.<br /><br />~mwt >I was particularly inspired by the story of Angela the Pumpkin.

~mwt

]]> By: Lisa Yee http://www.hbook.com/2010/02/news/old-home-week/#comment-9521 Lisa Yee Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:26:56 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3447#comment-9521 >Sorry to have missed you, but one of my kids insisted on celebrating their birthday. >Sorry to have missed you, but one of my kids insisted on celebrating their birthday.

]]> By: Roger Sutton http://www.hbook.com/2010/02/news/old-home-week/#comment-9520 Roger Sutton Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:43:40 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3447#comment-9520 >Apparently, the whole thing has been mooted for a year because of a procedural error ALSC made in notifying membership of the proposed change. So no vote will be taken until 2011. >Apparently, the whole thing has been mooted for a year because of a procedural error ALSC made in notifying membership of the proposed change. So no vote will be taken until 2011.

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