The Absent Librarian: Halloween

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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Book Character Pumpkin Entries (School #1)

Well, we had a lot of interest in this contest from our primary grades. Armed with glue and paint and construction paper...and whatever else they brought from home, students attacked the mini pumpkins with gusto! So much gusto that several had to go to the big Pumpkin-Patch-in-the-Sky due to fruit flies and rapid decay. The idea was to paint the pumpkins as a book character and pose them with the matching book. This didn't quite work out as intended. The term 'character' brought forth animated movie personalities and artistic interpretations of book themes. I have 2 different schools working on this project.

Here are the results from school number one (minus those that didn't survive the wait for my next visit) The No! David! was made by our Teacher Librarian as an example.

Friday, October 10, 2014

Pumpkin Book Characters

I love this project! Host a contest between the classes or even for the whole school. Partner with the art teacher or classroom teacher.
The theme for the pumpkin contest is “My Favorite Book Character.” Paint and decorate a pumpkin to look like a book character. We are using acrylic paints, permanent markers and miscellaneous supplies such as yarn, construction paper, pipe cleaners, cloth, wigs, old clothes and whatever else you can come up with.
We are not allowing carving so that they will last longer on display before turning bad. Another hint is to not use watercolor paint as it tends to run and not cover very well.
We were able to pick up small pumpkins for $0.99 at the local grocery store. You could also use other squash and gourds for different shapes.

I will post pictures once our entries have been received. Below are some of the example I found on Pinterest.com

Saturday, October 19, 2013

The Very Hungry Zombie: A Parody by Micheal Teitlebaum

Condensed post from Fang-tastic Fiction

Teitlebaum and Apple have created a dead-on parody of Eric Carle's classic caterpillar tale in this brightly colored board book that's meant for older kids (probably pre-teens and teens) and adults. The book would make a nice stocking-stuffer for any die-hard (pardon the pun) zombie fan.

The story begins as the zombie crawls out of his grave—and he is desperately hungry! Like Carle's caterpillar, the zombie has a different chewy snack every day of the week, with varying gustatory reactions. After seven days, the zombie is very full so he goes to sleep, but instead of a cocoon he sleeps in a grave, and instead of turning into a butterfly he arises as a super-zombie, accompanied by all of his tasty friends from the previous week.

Carle's Book

Teitlebaum's version

The illustrations are bright and cheerful and not at all gory. This book mimics the exact construction of Carle's book, right down to the hole-pocked overlapping pages and the prominent use of bright, primary colors.