Dear Wonderful Stone Families,
My name is Esme Raji Codell (also known as Ms. Esme), and I am your lucky school librarian! I say I am lucky because I get to teach the finest children in all of Chicago from the finest castle of a school! I am looking forward to another splendid year here at Stone. I will continue to work hard to make the library space a welcoming one, and a place where children's recreational reading and informational needs are met.
Those of you who had me last year know that the library is more than where we check out books...this is an active teaching, learning and creating place! Overall, the library experience will prepare your child to be a lifelong reader and a thoughtful, capable, empathetic and responsible citizen of our country in this technological age. You are invited to familiarize yourself with details of the library program here, where you'll find answers to questions about grading, procedures, borrowing and more, and if you would like to show support or be involved in the school library, click here to find out how...it definitely takes a village! The school library is up and running, so please by sure to have a peek-a-book on Curriculum Night on September 20th and say hello to me and all of your child's resource teachers. We come to know some of our students over a nine year trajectory and every year is precious.
We are starting off this school year with tremendous news to trumpet: On Thursday, September 27th, Caldecott-winning author KEVIN HENKES will be visiting 1st and 2nd graders at our school! Visit his website with your child and you'll find you may already be acquainted with his talent from titles like Lily's Purple Plastic Purse of Kitten's First Full Moon fame, but for this visit he is going to be sharing his brand new picture book, A Parade of Elephants, which is not even in stores yet! Students may purchase a personalized, autographed copy of this title for keepsies in your home libraries, order forms are going home to those grade levels (others available on request), please return to your child's classroom teacher ASAP. Elephant-sized thanks to our community partner, the always wonderful Book Cellar for making this visit possible! Please support your local independent bookseller, especially this one who always does such magical things for our school.
1st and 2nd graders, please bring the LONGEST SOCK YOU HAVE IN YOUR HOME to library during the week of September 10th in preparation of our pachyderm-inspired craft and jig!!!
Follow up:
Wowwww, Kevin Henkes gave us a REAL, LIVE DRAWING DEMONSTRATION, read to us and told us many funny stories about when he was a little boy! We love the real people behind the books we enjoy, and greeted Mr. Henkes with an elephant trunk ballet. Special thanks to parent Jennifer Yee, Mr. Faille and the Junior Librarian team for making the event such a success! And to Mr. Henkes and our friends at the Book Cellar, we are privileged and grateful for our connection, thank you again times a million.
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