This Week's Calendar
Shell Lakes Art Center Music Faculty will be giving a number of concerts starting July 5th. For information about the concert schedule, click on Shell Lake Arts Center Event Schedule
Four Schillings Short performs July 9th at the Heyde Center for the Arts in Chippewa Falls. For more information about the group's performances, click on Heyde Center for the Arts Website
Norma Desprez, Yvette Flaten, Peg Lauber, and Nadine St.Louis will be giving poetry readings Thursday July 10th at 7 p.m. at the Grand Avenue Coffee Cafe in Eau Claire. Admission for the readings is free. Norma Desprez will be holding a book signing after the readings. Deprez's new book is Silhouettes of Aging: An Octogenarian's Retort.
Anne Katz of Arts Wisconsin will be presenting information about the Wisconsin Arts Board's New Economy Funding Initiative at a community meeting hosted by the River Falls Community Arts Base and The Phipps Center for the Arts on Thursday, July 10 from noon to 1:30. The meeting will be held at the Phipps Center in Hudson.
The Smithsonian Between Fences exhibit at the Cable Natural History Museum runs through July 12th. For more information about the museum and the exhibit, click on the Cable Natural History Museum Website
Robert Cooper's Southwest Exhibit runs from June 7 through July 12 at the River Fall Public Library. More information available at River Falls Public Library Website
The International Native Flute Association Convention takes place July 9th through July 13th. For more information about the convention and a performance schedule, click on International Native Flute Association Website
Along Wisconsin's Ice Age Trail is available at your local book store or through the University of Wisconsin Press. For more information about Trail guides, click on Ice Age Trail Website or call the Ice Age Park and Trail Foundation at 800-227-0046.
Graphic designer Peter Seitz has a new book titled Peter Seitz: Designing a Life. The book is available at the Lake Pepin Center for Art and Design in Pepin and will be available at your local bookstore and on-line.
Rob Reid's fantasy book recommednations for June 19, 2008 include Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo; Into the Woods by Lyn Garden; Nightmare Academy by Dean Lorey; and City of Dogs by Livi Michael.
Rob Reid's picture book recommendations for May 1, 2008 The End by David LaRochelle; Once Upon The Time, The End by Geoffrey Kloske; Frankenstein Makes A Sandwich by Adam Rex; The Cheese by Margie Palatini; Ivan the Terrier by Peter Catalanotto; Little BoPeep Can't Go to Sleep by Erin Dealey; Three Armadillies Tuff by Jackie Hopkins; Whose Afraid of Granny Wolf by Lisa Wheeler; Hey Momma Goose by Jane Breskin Zalbin.
Rob Reid's recommendations for March 13, 2008 (Newberry winner and honor books): Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis; Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt; Feathers by Jacquelyn Woodson; and the Newberry Winner, Good Masters, Sweet Ladies: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Schlitz.
Rob Reid's recommendations for February 7, 2008 Good resource lists for children's Literature: Book Lists; Book Links; School Library Journal; www.ala.org/alsc; www.ala.org/yalsa; Children's literature blogs; www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc. Rob Reid's book recommendations: The Wicked Big Toddlah by Kevin Hawkes; I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry; First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger; and The Arrival by Shaun Tan.
Rob Reid's recommendations for December 13, 2007 include: Doreen Cronin series of books such as Click, Clack, Moo, Cows That Type and Diary of a Worm; Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of Part Time Indian; Jeff Kinney's The Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret; Mo Willems' Knuffle Bunny Too; Laura Vaccaro Seeger's Dog & Bear; Leo and Diane Dillon's Mother Goose Numbers on the Loose; and Jerry Pinkney's Little Red Riding Hood
Rob Reid's recommendations for October 18th included books winning the Sibert Award and the Orbus Pictus Award that went to Quest for the Tree Kangaroo by Sy Montgomery. Other non fiction books recommended were The Great Fire by Jim Murphy; Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong; How to be a Pirate by John Malam; Pirateology; Pirate's Handbook by Sam Taplin; Pirateopedia; Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden; and Daring Book for Girls by Andrea Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz.
Rob Reid recommendations for literature resources for boys include Guys Read, Tales Told Tall, and Kathleen Baxter's book Gotcha for Guys: Nonfiction books to get boys excited about reading.
Information about What's Playing, the publication about the St. Croix Valley's arts, is available at the What's Playing Website
The Northern Field Services Office is available to Western Wisconsin citizens. Janet Dykema the Field Services Representative for the Wisconsin Heritage Society is available at 715-836-2250 or at Janet.Dykema@wisconsinhistory.org
Information about the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and Sandy Lindow can be found at the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets website
