piers central big library i miss shannon and i miss linda and we're back again to give you all the information that you need to know we bring it right into your living room because you need to know everything that's going on in the children's department and young adult apartment yes nascar circuit because i went to a nascar race right at the weekend and then i was like all right never ma and so i very until turned redneck nascar did exactly but then when i thought i was going to be selling hot dogs and beer and french fries and stuff you thought i could do a little library yeah i thought was a great idea right but still be broken poor and living in my trailer but for our nascar fans we do have a lot of books about nascar racing at a library so and it's going to be a sporty  that we're kicking off the one thousand books before kindergarten yes our partnership with off their illustrator jackie urbana vic and that is exciting so when you get you know we want everybody to read well obviously when you're a zero you're not reading what you're being read to write and i i think that we can't stress it enough i know i've talked about it before in here but the importance of parents slowing down and reading to their children right just slow down it takes it's the most wonderful bedtime ritual as an example and you know i know that we're all busy and by the time the children go to bed and you want to go to bed or you just want some quiet time but that is quite time for you as well and that was a good one on doing absolutely so that's what i'm going to discuss it today there have been of course many studies so a lot of this shouldn't really be like earth shattering because we i believe live in a community that we're fortunate enough to have facilities like the library and access to the books and access to things to help promote literacy and to engage the children in reading but let me just go over some highlights of this this was taken from the american academy of pediatrics and to but they were doing was issuing a policy statement talking about the importance of even pediatricians and doctors getting in on promoting and sharing with parents as they come in the importance of reading to your child you know that i could be there to you know yeah just to let you know our job it's you know that it can come from there from a p d f and i think people would listen more if it came from the doctor to say well here's a here's some reasons that they came up with that they're they're passing on it says reading regularly now this is like again not rocket science reading regularly with young children stimulates optimal patterns of brain development and strengthens parent child relationships at a critical time in child development which unturned builds language literacy and social emotional skills that last a  lifetime that's just basic reading aloud with young children is one of the most effective ways to expose them to enrich the language and to encourage specific early literacy skills needed to promote school epigenetic factors associated with later reading success yet every year more than one in three and this is sad ok more than one in three american children start kindergarten without the language skills conker you know that that shouldn't be that way you know you suppose your child has so many vocabulary words when you read them because the words that are in books might not be the words you use in regular conversation right so that's how they learn new words by listening to stories exactly oh absolutely and here's something i you know very eye opening let's put it reading proficiency by the third grade is the most important predictor of high school graduation and career success wow my third grade that's crazy and you know they're telling about the statistics you know depending on economic this and your whatever you know that how difficult it can be for people to to develop this reading proficiency if they talk about you know reading with children in their infancy in preschool years  associated with higher language skills at school entry and childhood literacy acquisition after controlling for after controlling for family family education and socio economic status the literacy related qualities of a child's home are associated with language skill development so what they're saying is early age of initiation of reading aloud with a child has been shown to be associated with better preschool language skills and increased interest in reading reading aloud with young children has been found to increase the richness as you brought up the richness of the vocabulary to which they are exposed as well as the complexity of syntax  in addition books and early conversations play around in addition books and early conversations and play around books and reading stimulate increased interaction between the adult and the child these interactions build nurturing relationships that are critical for the child's cognitive language and social emotional development recently you know as far as the you know the technical information will stop there but it's interesting because you feel like it's a no brainer but i think too for us you know being in the field right you know you just feel like you can't stress it enough right but now but see you know i've always been a reader my children are readers and i love that time you know and i know writing how much you love right that time to just be quiet and they you know i did it for the longest time and i think i've talked in here to before that they didn't even do a story on that they were even saying that there are high school like older kids that love to still you know sit around and read aloud to write you know which is s cool thing and i always liken it to the fact that i always have like a book that i'm reading and then i have like a book in my car that i listen yeah me too and it's like being read to absolutely i am listening to this book right that i am loving it so much you don't get out of the car you don't you know that happens to me didn't own and the way that they read it in that in that they have the right now will reading a lot of multicultural books and they're doing the read to the book that i'm listening to right now the things we keep which is from my book club it's about this girl who's in her thirty's and she has early onset alzheimer's and this but the written from different perspectives you know there's multiple actresses reading and one time it's tol gives makes it feel more real here write to them talk that way and what i mean as opposed to reading it that way right i'm sure the author did write it to show that they are stuttering right but it's to hear them actually studder makes it more  i love it i love audio books so i do too in the that's funny because you can check them out your local library or download them on your overdrive app oh really oh i didn't know that you know i agree totally the book that i'm reading is about an asian girl and her family that moved to the united states and living in new york and of course in their family they talked chinese said write us all the you know talk but obviously you know you're reading the book it's all going to be done in english but what i love about the woman that's reading it she does it in any strong chinese accent and  you hear it in you know she's still saying it in english but you know it's the mom talking in chinese are you know what i knew right then you're like you're feeling it in your go and it just yeah it just brings so much to it so i imagine if we were feeling that way listening to somebody that wouldn't even know reading to our way that you're sitting there with your child and you are moving like a cow or i mean it's just sounds silly but i mean i always brag that i can do the best monkey sounds and you know there's and that's a good article to hold on to yes good resource for especially with we're kicking off a thousand books before kindergarten it absolutely and if we have to bring it up every now and then the important so be it you're going to hear it yet here and here until you're right that's really for us it's like a no years however teens are the most busy busiest species that i've ever met so you know it seems like they have so i know on the thought of coming into the library talk about a book for an hour doesn't seem to be about so the first book we're going to be reading throughout may so it's not the be just one day where you have to show up and talk about it we're going to talk about this book sporadically throughout the month so like i maybe may first i'll post a question about it how's it go and read a bit about it maybe may fifth i'm going to share like the book trailer from you tube on there so it's like a lot of different aspects of social media this book and then you can just comment share it whatever so the first book we're going to do is called recovery road by blake nelson i chose this because a lot of teens love the network it was a b c family now it's free for t v shows and a lot of really popular y e books have been turned into t shows on this network pretty little liars instruments and now recovery road which i'd even know recovery road was a book until the show came out and then i was just walking along and i made the connection i saw that week this book i'm going in and out of our library and that's because now it's a t v show and it is about a girl who never virtually has a addiction a drinking problem and anger issues so she's sent away to this spring meadows which is a rehab facility and for teens with issues like this and so kind of goes through her journey journey through recovery and it's  very another show is about that obvious of the show's going to be a little bit the show in the book are always going to be difference that we're writing else we're going to talk about is the teens are watching this show it's very popular show right now how they're what they're how they're doing the show part of the book is so  really good and unfortunately we do have a lot of issues like this in our area recovery road it's the most important story that pulls no punches with depth of understanding and no small amount of humor nelson author sketches the complex universe of recovery readers will be captivated so recovered by blake nelson so we have bunch of copies of the library he can check out read it if you can read it before may the great if your we can discuss it as you're reading it doesn't matter because it's all going to be social media base and solace p t p all teens and will be talk about recovery nice that's exciting i've never heard of that and i didn't know that was like how new is the show i think it's this just came out after the holidays so really yeah because i was seeing a eleventh we are doing our summer reading kickoff which means that everybody can come and register their children from kindergarten up to do our book club are not book club but our summer reading program in this year's theme which we're going to have a lot of fun with and talk about more next time is sports related like ready ready set ready set get ready set reader ready set and then the teen one is  get in the game i think ok so very sports related which it will be a lot of fun writing yeah sure like i said lots of so we're going to some fitness classes in the library for teens what all of our programs we our weekly programs will somehow centered around sports whether we're physically doing something we're reading something about sports have been ordering some really cool sports books to have you here in the summer so yeah it's it's going to be fun i'm excited about that too yeah and speaking of which you people and have some programs with us as the author of the we'll talk about that and anybody that's there right now watching this at three in the morning and can't sleep with a new thought about if you're tuning in right now i would like to come to our library she speaks french to me yeah anybody like that that would like part of our library and to help encourage literacy among children please please be awesome please consider giving us a buzz and and offering your talents we'd appreciate it so that it's going to be june eleventh and that is actually if we could talk about it and i was mentioning to parents the other day is that  june eleventh is one week later than we usually do it our summer reading program is starting one week later than we usually started because of the school strike right the kids are get are staying in school longer so it would be our big kickoff will be june eleventh of the library and i maybe since it's a kick off and our theme is sports who can have some kind of kicking competition that could be fun kick some balls around or yeah some karate kicks yeah the month so on may nineteenth at six forty five we're going to be showing open season scared yet it's going to i haven't seen it mainly that it's fun so it will be hot off the press i believe right  exactly cat the cat i like that absolutely all right then we are moving on then it is summer is going to be starting and then we have memorial day it is just my babies back we will after starting the morial day weekend we will be closed on sundays right in the summer so that's one thing we wanted to make mention because it's just you know it gets quiet on the you know with all the people traveling and right off so we are not open on sundays but we are open and every other day at normal hours of ariel hours every other day  clothes on sundays up and my team program dungeons and dragons they meet usually on sundays on the lawyer so that will be on a little bit of a hiatus and then they'll start that back up on mondays at one once school years or so though the entire month of may we're going to do another comp so we every single time we come here we like to try to tell you what you can do to win a prize but you know what for all the prizes we give away and the stuff that we do i wish we could be in  m we put the stuff together go i like this i know exactly yeah so we are going to be giving away in may for teens get caught reading month apparently he said the first week of may is national children's book month and then tying a long into that is get caught reading month so we are going to be celebrating that for teens today what if you take a selfie of your cell phone reading yeah ok and you send it to me reading month right and then this is what you're choosing to do for the young adults right but this is mean this could be in a this is just anybody's program i mean it's anybody can get caught reading or is this something they do just with young adult but they get caught reading month as a national body yet and he said that's all i'm tying it into teens well i want to do something you know that's a great idea maybe i'll just you know what i think i'll do i'm just going to go around if you are in the children's department and here's what we'll do if you were in the children's department and you i find you reading with your child not just have it then you know because we're always pushing read to your child read read read write if i walk around and if i see parent or caregiver somebody reading to their child i'm going to snap a picture in and maybe i'll do a super yeah let the pigeon drive the bus and i went to grab that to bring matt and we have several copies and the good news says they were all out which is ok but i didn't have one to bring in but so you but it's ok so i ye exactly in this is one the pigeon finds a hot dog which is hysterical as usual but what i wanted to do william says i'm wonderful i'm so funny and i think as a as a an adult we enjoy these books just as much as the kids do because he's got a lot of like sarcasm in his books yeah and then i love books like that where it goes over the heads of the kids but yet they're enjoying it so much and we find the humor ok so you have to listen to this if this is really like about the  it's going to be called the thank you book after all these years of the thank you book and i think i want to say like thirty books these are number that that come to mind and he's have the books preordered and the it's coming out like any time now that his his last book well and i told you that he actually is a neighbor to jackie you know and i've been yeah so well i know we have to close