Save the Date(s) for Summer Bookmaking
Announcing the Bookmaking With Kids: Summer Camp 2009.
Starting Monday June 22th and continuing through Friday June 26th, Bookmaking With Kids is presenting specially priced work-
shops where you can discover ideas and inspiration for a whole year of imaginative teaching.
These classes are for teachers, librarians, principals, home-
schoolers and arts educators. They focus principally on grades K–8. But some are appropriate for preschool and high-school teachers, too. And every workshop gives you instantly usable projects, easy-to-follow instructions, and convincing evidence that making books with students is a fun and effective way of nurturing literacy and artistic expression across all areas of the curriculum.
Bookmaking With Kids: Summer Camp 2009 takes place at the beautiful new Redwood Shores Public Library, easily reached from San Francisco, the Peninsula and the East Bay. Click here for a map.
For a Summer Camp overview in calendar form, click here. You’ll find complete workshop descriptions and a registration form in this downloadable flyer.
Starting next week, you’ll find posts every Monday and Friday about a different workshop, with lots of photos. Got questions? Want more details? Need help deciding which classes will suit you best? Just email Cathy for fast, knowledgeable answers. Hope to see you at camp this June!
Yes, it’s Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in March 1969. The story of the voracious caterpillar was the second book Carle both wrote and illustrated. His first venture into children’s books came two years earlier, when he illustrated Bill Martin Jr.’s Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? And his first wholly original book was 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo, published in 1968. You can watch and listen to Carle talking about his famous caterpillar in 
The title page of Dance caught my eye, with embroidery floss mimicking the pink satin ribbons dancers use for their toe shoes. Susie’s quick survey of page design lead lots of kids to start their quotations with large, decorative initial capitals.
Line-art illustrations abounded, as did stickers, rub-on letters, rubber stamps, the appeal of kids’ handwriting. Of course, the quotations themselves were fun for kids to dig up, collect and select. And lots of thought went into the order of their appearance and which pairs would share each
spread. I was particularly smitten by the juxtaposition of Lord Byron (“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”) and Jay Leno (“You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh—it’s as simple as that.”) in the book
titled Laughter, bottom left. 
I love reading kids’ book reviews, more so than book reports. They’re so authentic; the kids’ voices and opinions come through loud and clear.
review—seems to inspire kids to put their all into these tiny publications.
This handy lift-the-flap booklet not only gives kids plenty of hidden space to draft three lines of poetry but also a place to showcase their finish-
