Discover ideas for including Book Connections resources in library programs for children.

• Create a Meet-the-Author Recording scavenger hunt around your library. Select recordings for books and authors you have on your shelves, and then create a scavenger hunt sheet with questions answered by your selected recordings.

  • If you select the Meet-the-Author Recording for The One and Only Ivan, you might have “Which book was inspired by a true news story?” on your sheet. Patrons will have to use the QR codes to listen to the recordings and find the answers.

• Pair books with hands on projects when planning STEAM programs:

  

  • Check out this engineering challenge activity guide and snake-repelling hat video that pair with Rosie Revere, Engineer.

  • Build robots with Doll-E 1.0 in this ready-to-share activity guide or use Makey Makey and Scratch to introduce simple programming with this video.

• Planning programming for the graphic novel fans at your library? Browse the Graphic Novel Collection for new titles to recommend. Filter by grade level to find the right age range for your audience.

  • Use the Graphic Novel / Graphic Format Multi-Leveled Lesson as a starting point for book club discussions or for a program on graphic novel creation.
  • Tailor these lessons to your audience and introduce vocabulary related to the format as well as providing discussion questions on the relationship between image and text.

  

• Make Poetry Month planning easy!

  • Find ready to share resources like this activity guide on how to write a tricube poem for Thanku: Poems of Gratitude or this silly activity guide for I'm Just No Good at Rhyming.
  • Hear directly from living poets. Listen to this Meet-the-Author Recording with Kwame Alexander for Out of Wonder or this Meet-the-Author Recording with Naomi Shihab Nye for Everything Comes Next.
  • Explore poetry awards and find resources for award-winning titles on this award page.