library i am a shannon ho and i missed the letter is bringing you all the information that you need to know from the children's and young adult department right into your living room hi welcome back think clearly mom yeah ho she she did a good job i mean it's she's i think that she was a little bit surprised on how we do it and she likes morris like structure structure and let me  know we haven't seen each other so we came in and here we go we're going to jump right into it our way through that ok back to the well real quick back i have a little of a brag with ok good so i soon so here's what i knew it i was just going to say all right just bring it out that he loves to read so there he is with all of our this is for christmas all of our christmas books that if you can see say he's reading he actually likes to lie down the good book yes of course he does that is so cute i actually you know you had the other one with the glasses i like that one without the glasses y wasn't quite sure what i was up to so i'd be like ok well i'm just whatever i like just go with it go with the flow actually this is from that little state they're called pennsylvania and also globe interest local global news is exactly what i wanted to talk about today is the pennsylvania young readers choice awards the nominees came out a and we are going to participate in it by well i'm not going to read all the nominees but what i do want to say about it that you know this is a list of books that were picked to be some of the best of the best in the children's and young adult the children get to vote on which book that they like so that that it's like is that a cult like a people's choice like on t v you know like that movies or something people's choice a now i don't have the ballots out yet quite get there and they can come in the the rules for the selections as i've read them is that they have to read the child has to read a or twelve have to read a minimum of three books and then of course and more but then come in get a ballot marked off the ones that they've read and found that the their favorite a put out a ballot box or something you know they can put it in there and it goes to march first and then we tabulate the results from our library and submit it to the pennsylvania choice awards committee so looked at it last night at work or yesterday afternoon i went oh there is quite a bit and then i want to i thought we'd concentrate like on new year's books like everybody new year's resolutions get fit lose weight read get smart take a class whatever so i thought that would be a fun thing so what i'm doing is trying to join the two together like i think books with the pennsylvania young readers trying to read so you know what maybe i didn't bring any why a once but if you want to hear back well anyway i have i have a book marker in here because i was going to show you you know you could look at the y a and see if there's a couple of your favorites on here but pulling a lot of this together last night sitting on my own maybe and here sitting on my bed i was like oh no not in the ok so our winter programs are kicking off just monday monday morning and it's been yeah sure it's been crazy like you know there are actually no because there haven't been you know we just do the holiday coming is she joined as she was officially allowed to join the children's department she's taking a couple days a week at her weekends off of the circulation that's ok and doing a weekend in the children's night as we are going to be hiring a new at the sign up sheets they're filling up i had a lot of people signed up on wednesday when i was there and saying a lot of phone calls never yeah especially the morning classes if you want to register for the classes my suggestion is if you can pull off doing afternoon sessions do pick the afternoon the morning ones are so full to do for that is depending on the age of and the temperament of the child it can be good or bad you know so ok but you never know with the all move right along because some kids can't handle that right i've been warning them as well going you know if you can do it it's especially bodies it's a great example you know i had somebody call within the last couple  days and i said if you can pull up the afternoon actually one yesterday i had a call and i really said they said is there any are there any spots available and i said there is a spot in the afternoon bodies and awesome ok what's going on the teen for teens well we have a special craft thing coming up we're going to do we always have capturing every tuesday but the end of the well know that the in the before we get to i'm kind of looking at all this before we get to a lot of the talk about books since we're only doing one for a while and you worry because we're so into january but it just seems silly what we do have are for kids we have the pajama story time yes tussle things like smart people with them all right good yet don't tell the kids that so how much and they'll have that ok i know there's something coming up at the beginning of february which we're going to be w talk about with our february programming but it's so early it's on saturday the first saturday of the month it's take your child oh get into that yeah all right we'll leave it on yeah take your child to the library day it's a national program  course just like take your child to work you know to take their child to the library and we always get into it we have you know events it's a saturday so we've lost the things arts and crafts and for the third year josh and gab yes josh and gabby i tell you   to josh and josh and gavin of the summer he's not only does he do the joshing gab which is like a anti bullying kid love them rock band he's in like a regular brock band right and i was at a concert and he was the too like you don't not just like cheesy kid you know they make up real legit music like real legit music they make up their songs and the words and everything in the message is so cool in the kids are having a blast learning this message against bullying and you know being good people i love that i know they're coming again third and they're always and it's so funny because i you know just chewed up a little email do you remember and lovable and they're like oh my god you're art you're our favorite you know we love coming yeah that'll be cute ok and then quickly would just mention family movie night is the twenty first verse showing pain than i haven't seen it maybe the version of peter pan obviously and looks pretty intense looks kind of cool and besigye are starting up next week her science of air so you know her with the misl in with her science program so yeah good show yeah she's do it airs this month and i did look at the next months but of course if i can't some children we're going to give you some great ideas for the new year and summer reading studying winter reading which is why i brought with the good book winter so this is one of my favorite series it's super super popular it's the lunar chronicles series we've talked about it many times and here because red cinder actually yeah i just read it first class it was very interesting well this is the final book in the series so this is the very last installment now each one the sender is obviously a play on cinderella a super techie modern version of cinderella and then as the series goes on there are all kind of different plays on fairy tales in the second book of scarlet which is about red riding hood however sender's character is still the most important character and will continue through ok i was like as a sub character and other ones yes i haven't read any of the other ones and i kind of knew but i guess i didn't look at a close enough to realize that it's other very characters that are in that and then all the third book  crass which they bring in a character but instead of being locked in a tower she's since it's few the future she's locked in some satellite somewhere oh and then the the evil the evil queen is actually the queen of the moon and she does she's in the center book as well but then she is the evil stepmother of winter or snow white ok so her skin is white as snow and of course like did yeah it's not really my thing i don't yeah like futuristic and all that but i got hooked and also just in to talk to you all of them to science and a lot of r y a readers are loving this series and i tend to recommend it a lot to both boy were going to figure out if the the right now become like the whole world is kind of has this crazy disease and only certain people can cure it and all this stuff is going on so we'll find out what happens yeah in a winter i just started the other day some excited about  so and also it is winter yeah perfect idol for the winter perfect yeah i did i like cinder i was surprised too yeah when i read it because i was and i was i don't know but i liked it  so going with reading you know sometimes we've talked in here about reading like new berries or call the cops or you know kind of award winning books i think it would be a good resolution to read for some of the people the kids to read the pennsylvania young readers choice award nominees so i private some and i brought some in every category but i'm not going to talk about them all but i'll do one quick category then you go we'll just kind of go back and forth here because i see you have a lot so for the first category which would be picture books we have david so men's with three bears in about it's so who the three bears you know they break their mother's most precious blue sea shell and they're afraid to tell  so they decide to jump a sailboat and go look for one to replace but it has a really sweet ending that has a message for kids you know that thing to tell your mom or not so i'm not going to do a little spoiler alert it's adorable bunnies and the bunnies out with the monster because what he wants to do is eat the bunnies so it's like they have a they just kind of come up with these little schemes or these little things that kind of keep putting it off putting it off and putting it off no absolutely and i'm glad you brought that up because i forgot to mention too this is the author of lady bug girl oh i love lady but i don't know she's so famous but you know what i read reading up on him he it was co created by he and his wife lady bu girl i love that they did i love every bugger all because her dog being looks just like my juno yeah yeah and another thing to note is the books are both illustrated and written by the same person i that i always tell the kids in my things i'm like they wrote and illustrated you know and i explained illustrated and i think and i just poke you know that so talented that is so amazing like to be able to and i don't know and then the last one i'll it's the two boys you know they're digging a hole and they're going to keep going until they find something fantastic are super or something and super stupendous or and in how they go they'll go in different directions and then end up in the same direction i will not do a spoiler alert this also is very the ending is adorable and what i like about how he writes is that there's always like a little bit of conflict and it's never really solved book came out and it is about a girl whose she's just started college and she writes fan fiction based upon like these simonds i think it's simon  yep simon snow is just like basically a quick lead to harry potter and the viral world ok so there's this book series about this character and she loves this character so she writes fan fiction about it and so i guess because ok author's note if you read my book fan girl you know that simon snow began as a fictional character in that novel a fictional fictional character in fan girl simon is the hero of a series of children's adventure novels and the subject of most much fan fiction written by the main character fangirl kath she's in the what the author said as she said when i finished the book i was able to like a cat and her boyfriend levi in their world i felt like i was finished with their story but i couldn't like go of simon so she decided to go ahead and write his story nice so it's really neat it's a sequel but not a sequel i get it saying i think enough but then they all know i read both standalone like this is more going to be more fantasy more like the simons is wizard yeah i says like harry potter yeah and then this is more i'm going to show this one it's an we call these books are in between just as a chicken a lot by dorian cronan and i love her anyway she writes you know a lot like a movie yeah exactly which is one and what i think was a call to cut honor award winner but anyway this is what we call an in between it's not a picture book it's not a full blown chapter book but it's a little easier for children to read but ok off the subject will but first of all it's adorable and there's she's great there's two other stories that followed and this was the first i here's my highlighted part about doric ms cronan is that she graduated penn state she's from yeah and i love it that was her undergrad and then she went to law school and became she was a lawyer i know and then changed everything she had a law degree and the best thing i read about also besides penn state that she has in her bio is that she loved her library and spent most of her time there that's how she really got into to writing and into it this is an adorable a lot of the the picture books she has illustrated by betsy lewin  i was yet are you one that likes to read the thing before the movie k i think there's a probably going to be our last thing before we say goodbye but the reason why i wanted to show this very quickly c c bell wrote al def out and it's a graphic novel  not i was not i don't know why but it wasn't like really into the graphic novel so much but know enough about them to you know talk to the kids but i really got into this this reminds me of placido with wonder the bo wonder this is about a deaf girl right and how she feels going through school because she has a hearing aid here and you know though the wires and and the first light i wanted to tell you that if i could find that the first line of the book  is it begins with the line i was a regular little kid and that's exactly how wonder was whole a show gives her rave reviews on it and you know what it's based on the author's experience as she's deaf  of the getting of that to my fourth fifth and sixth graders of the summer and ever since then like they all wanted it yeah i read it yeah it's great and it's so good i know very moving so i would recommend  have to wrap it up and welcome back so i would have fun yeah it was nice you know my little guy india yeah it's hard coming back but he's happy good in good hands he's in good hands he's got buddies and he's having a good time man i mean it's not all that matters but that's a big part of it you know you know it's like help especially while you're going to be writing them so she keeps sending me pictures and like yeah like he was playing with her little boy and they're just laughing at each other the whole time so  mean hard smile good having fun but well you know what the beautiful thing is technology today you're able to stay in touch and see everything you know it's all good so here welcome back and then next time we will be