AWE Early Literacy Tablet 1 (North and West Region)
Email Jeanne Bondi (bondij) to reserve. She will enter your name and information on the schedule below.
Button Maker
ACLA has 2 1/3" round button maker set including the metal pin shells and plastic laminate discs. All you need are 2" images/papers. Please email Emily Bryan-Reeder (reedere) to borrow this set and she will update the table below.
One Book, Every Young Child
Previous One Book, Every Young Child kits are cataloged in Millennium and can be requested with any library card. Current kits are available on the OBEYC page for reservation from March - May.
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Location / Contact for Questions ONLY - MUST REQUEST VIA SIERRA
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Link to REQUEST VIA SIERRA
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Up, Down, and Around (2008)
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Springdale / Janet Tyree |
Up, Down, and Around |
If You Were a Penguin #1 (2009)
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Wilkinsburg / Emily Bryan-Reeder |
If You Were a Penguin #1 |
If You Were a Penguin #2 (2009)
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Robinson / Jill Antoline |
If You Were a Penguin #2 |
What a Treasure #1 (2010)
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Northland / Jeanne Bondi
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What a Treasure #1
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What a Treasure # 2 (2010)
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Western Allegheny / Amanda Kirby
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What a Treasure #2
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Whose Shoes (2011)
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Coraopolis / Susan McClellan
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Whose Shoes |
Stop Snoring, Bernard (2012)
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Braddock / Rachel Brehm |
Stop Snoring, Bernard
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Bus for Us (2013)
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Plum / Liz Kostandinu |
Bus for Us |
Stripes of All Types (2014) |
AC Free / JoLynne Dougherty |
Email JoLynne Dougherty (doughertyj) to request. |
$ Piggy Bank Tales $
A kit for a four week unit on earning, saving, spending, sharing for ages 12 months to 5 years. Libraries may request kits for 5 weeks - 1 week of preparation, and 4 weeks of implementation. An extra week will be built into the calendar for the next participant to receive the item via delivery. Please email Kelley Beeson (beesonk2) and she will update the table below.
IMLS Blog Post about Piggy Bank Tales
Planning Items:
Please have the bin ready for delivery by the end of you last day of reservation. Check this schedule for the next library and email Kelley when you have sent it.
Gaming Trunks
Erin Pierce at C.C. Mellor manage gaming trunk requests and reservations. You can email or call them to request a trunk. Keep in mind that each library will have one set; each ‘set’ contains 3 trunks:
- a trunk of wii games
- a trunk of board games
- a trunk for the guitars of Guitar Hero
You can borrow all or 1 at a time.
Programming Kits
4 Programming Kits are available for libraries to borrow. Much like the One Book Every Young Child Trunks, these kits are ready-to-go-programs that will make your programming a bit easier!
Kit Descriptions:
- Lego Fun! Get together and Build! Build! Build! This kit includes standard Lego pieces as well as Lego coloring pages.
- Princesses From Around the World! What is it like to be a real-life princess? The contents of this kit will allow children to examine the lives of princesses from around the world. Through the use stories, rules of etiquette, music, and a variety of props, children will experience what it takes to lead a royal life.
- Bounce Around the World! Bounce your way around the world and discover how balls and spheres are used in different countries. This kit includes the equipment for exploring games and traditions from around the globe.
- Fairy Tales Meet Science! Fairy tales allow our imaginations to soar. If we listen carefully we can discover more about our world. The contents of this kit provide stories from around the world and the necessary scientific tools for young patrons to examine the details with the eyes and ears of a scientist.
How to Get a Kit:
- To reserve a kit, email Rachel Brehm (brehmr(at)einetwork(dot)net as the kits now live at Braddock Library, and she will enter your name and information with your information on the schedule.
- Kits are to be returned to Braddock (not ACLA.)
- If there is someone waiting for a kit, please make sure it is in the mail by Thursday so that the next library can receive it by Monday. Please plan your programs and reservation dates accordingly. Rachel Brehm will direct you where to send it if you are unsure.
Lego Fun!
Note on the Lego Kit:
This kit circulates with three full bags of standard Legos. Please do not mix these with patron Legos. Make sure that when you are finished, you still have three full bags of standard Legos before you return this kit.
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Emily Byron-Reeder |
Wilkinsburg
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April 7 2016
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Green Tree
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July 7-8 2016
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Princesses Around the World!
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Bounce Around the World!
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Emily Byron-Reeder |
Wilkinsburg
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June 20th- 24th 2016
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Fairy Tales Meet Science!
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