Lucy Daniels Center Releases New Lucy's Book Club Topic, "Becoming a Big Brother or Big Sister"
May 5, 2010
Cary, NC—The Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood announces its latest Lucy’s Book Club topic, “Becoming a big brother or big sister!” The list of 10 recommended books for children and one for parents were chosen by a panel of Lucy Daniels Center educators and mental health professionals and Wake County children’s librarians for their excellence in supporting young children’s emotional development. Titles include Karen Katz’s Best-Ever Big Brother and Russell Hoban’s A Baby Sister for Frances. The parent’s featured book is The New Baby at Your House by Joanna Cole.
These books address the myriad of feelings that accompany welcoming a new baby into the home. Jennifer Reid, a Lucy Daniels Center teacher says, “We often use books in the classroom to broach topics that are difficult to talk about. The books selected for this particular reading list touch on many of the feelings that may surface when a young child is adjusting to the arrival of a new baby. Hearing the perspectives of characters coping with similar experiences allows children to feel more comfortable with their feelings and reactions and sometimes even open up to talking about how the stories relate to their own lives.”
The Lucy’s Book Club (LBC) is a free, community outreach program for Wake County children ages birth to six and their parents. LBC is designed to support healthy social and emotional growth for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners. All books chosen for the bookmark/booklist are readily available in Wake County libraries, bookstores, and online.
Three of the titles are also available in Spanish.
Bookmark displays with free, oversized bookmarks listing the current book selections can be found in more than 200 locations including Wake County libraries, preschools, childcare centers, pediatricians’ offices, and bookstores, or downloaded online from www.lucysbookclub.org. Parents can visit the website, funded by the Cisco Foundation, to sign their children up for free book club membership, receive a bimonthly blog, and access a myriad of additional resources supporting each Lucy’s Book Club topic.
From May 22 through June 6, in honor of the first year of the Lucy’s Book Club, the Center will present Bookmarked!, a two-week festival of reading with children. Included will be a two-week book fair at Quail Ridge Books, featuring all 44 Lucy’s Book Club books from the 2009-2010 season and more than 20 free reading events featuring celebrity-heroes, like police officers, ballerinas, mail carriers, and even the governor reading Lucy’s Book Club books. Then, on June 5 and 6, beloved children’s author Judith Viorst, will be on hand to read from her children’s books and be the featured presenter at a special fundraising event to support the LBC and the Center’s Family Support Fund.
A limited number of tickets are on sale now for An Evening with Judith Viorst. The event will be held at Peace College on Sunday, June 6. For complete details and to purchase tickets and/or books, visit www.lucysbookclub.org and click on Bookmarked!
The Lucy’s Book Club is funded by several foundation and corporate partners including the Carolinas Credit Union Foundation, the Cisco Foundation, Time Warner Cable, and the Target Foundation.
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The Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood is a nationally recognized model for childhood mental health education and services. The Center is the largest, and most comprehensive nonprofit focused on providing mental health services exclusively to young children and their families in the Triangle, conveniently located at 9003 Weston Parkway, Cary, NC 27513. For more information visit www.lucydanielscenter.org
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