EZ Library Programs
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Program Details |
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Title
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Bookcover Rejuvenation (Operation Facelift) |
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Description
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Children adopt a book which the library wishes to keep that has no cover. Children read the book, then illustrate new cover. Hold special artists' reception where children receive Certificates of Appreciation and gift. |
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Cost
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$81-$100 |
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Program Type
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Culture and Arts |
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Audience
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Middle School |
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Program Length
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Supplies
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Blank covers (unwaxed butcher paper pre-sized to each book), laser printer labels (on back of book for artist to sign), plastic cover protectors (added by librarian after design is complete), stamp (Adopted), certificates, gifts for artists, invitations & food for reception, posters to label collection of "naked" books. |
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Idea Source
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Brooke Stevens |
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Contact Name
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Brooke Stevens |
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Library Name
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Starr Library, Rhinebeck, NY |
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E-mail
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Performer Contact
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none |
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Notes
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Brooke spent considerably more than $100 on this program but feels the cost can be kept down by giving less expensive gifts to the artists and serving inexpensive food. Pre-sizing the covers ahead of giving them to the artists was very helpful and ensured the drawings would be within the correct size for each book. She did this program over the summer so kids had time to work on the artwork and then hosted the reception in the fall. She then marked the spines of each restored book with pink label. For MHLS libraries, you can order any of the following titles which were *facelifted* through the MHLS catalog: >>The Cricket on the Hearth : a Fairy Tale of Home [by] Charles Dickens, illustrated by Francis D. Bedford. >>The Man who Sang the Sillies by John Ciardi ; drawings by Edward Gorey. >>The Walrus and the Carpenter and other Poems by Lewis Carroll. Pictures by Gerald Rose. >>The Plain Princess by Phyllis McGinley ; with pictures by Helen Stone >>Chocolate Fever by Robert K. Smith ; illustrated by Gioia Fiammenghi. |
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Topics
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none |
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Date Submitted
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00-00-0000 |