[OPLINLIST] You and Your Community Can Choose to Read Ohio

Mon Aug 2 16:56:23 EDT 2010

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Learn about this statewide reading initiative, including a grant
opportunity for libraries and the Choose to Read Ohio booklists
spotlighting Ohio authors.

About the program

Choose to Read Ohio (CTRO) spotlights Ohio authors and promotes reading
across Ohio.  The State Library, in partnership with Ohioana Library,
developed CTRO to encourage Ohioans of all ages to share literature by
authors native to, residing in, or associated with Ohio.  CTRO debuted
in spring 2009 with a booklist of 15 titles by Ohio authors.  A new CTRO
2011 booklist with 20 titles was announced at the 2010 Ohioana Book
Festival in May.

CTRO is adaptable for use in library programs and by groups from
families to classes to book clubs.  CTRO 2011 posters and bookmarks will
be available to libraries starting in fall 2010, and each CTRO title
will have a free downloadable toolkit with author biography, discussion
questions, activities and more.  Toolkits for the 2009-10 books will
remain available as well.  Find them at 
http://oh.webjunction.org/ohctrointro
<http://oh.webjunction.org/ohctrointro> .  Some program ideas:

*	Create a display of CTRO books in your library.
*	Select a CTRO title for your book discussion group and develop
programs or activities related to the title.
*	Encourage families to read a CTRO book together and plan field
trips or other family activities related to the book.
*	Develop early literacy programming featuring the CTRO titles for
young children.
*	Produce a readers' theater performance of a CTRO title.
*	Create book trailers for CTRO titles.
*	Collaborate with partner organizations to host a community-wide
reading program.
*	Research and map the Ohio connections of the CTRO authors. 

Check out some excellent LSTA-grant-funded projects for more ideas: 
http://oh.webjunction.org/ohlstactroprojects
<http://oh.webjunction.org/ohlstactroprojects> .  Cleveland Elementary
School and Lane Public Library collaborated on activities featuring
Where the Steps Were by Andrea Cheng.  Students read the book and
participated in poetry writing and printmaking projects coordinated by
Andrea Cheng, resulting in a published booklet.  Cleveland
Heights-University Heights Public Library also partnered with local
schools, to offer a variety of creative programs around The Journey That
Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margaret and H.A. Rey
by Louise Borden and You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon.  Cuyahoga County
Public Library developed an array of high-tech programs targeted to
adults who work with middle school youth through its R3O: Read Rap
Record Ohio initiative based on Jacqueline Woodson's After Tupac & D
Foster.

Carnegie Public Library in Washington Court House produced a
multifaceted community project using local resources only.  As part of
its Adult Summer Reading kickoff, the library asked patrons to vote on a
CTRO title to read.  They selected Beyond the River by Ann Hagedorn.  In
addition to a library display, several local historians agreed to speak
about the community's connection to the Underground Railroad, and a
local book club arranged to travel to Ripley, Ohio for a tour of various
historic sites, afterward presenting details of their trip to patrons at
the library.

Grant opportunity

Great CTRO programs can be built for the price of some creativity and
good partnerships.  However, the State Library makes a special grant
opportunity available for libraries to produce a larger-scale CTRO
community event or project than local resources might allow.  

This special Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant program
will provide funds to libraries to implement a 2011 Choose to Read Ohio
program in their community.  The RFP for the Choose to Read Ohio grant
can be found at http://oh.webjunction.org/ohlstactro
<http://oh.webjunction.org/ohlstactro> .

Individual proposals may not exceed a request of $10,000 in federal
funds. 

A financial match of 25% of the total project cost is required from the
library.  The deadline for applications is September 15.  This
opportunity is available to Ohio public, academic, school, and special
libraries.  Please read the RFP carefully and contact the State Library
with any questions.

The books!

The Choose to Read Ohio 2011 booklist:

Books for Adults

Jennifer Chiaverini, The Lost Quilter

P. L. Gaus, Blood of the Prodigal: An Amish-Country Mystery

David Giffels, All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down
House

Karen Harper, Mistress Shakespeare

Robert Olmstead, Coal Black Horse

Books for Teens

Angela Johnson, Sweet, Hereafter

Lisa Klein, Two Girls of Gettysburg

Amjed Qamar, Beneath My Mother's Feet

Jeff Smith, Bone Vol. 1: Out from Boneville

Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Books for Tweens (9-12)

Tony Abbott, Firegirl.

Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

Virginia Hamilton, The People Could Fly (Leo and Diane Dillon,
illustrators)

J. Patrick Lewis, The Brothers' War: Civil War Voices in Verse

Marilyn Nelson, Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest
All-Girl Swing Band in the World (Jerry Pinkney, illustrator)

Books for Children (0-8)

Dan Andreasen, The Giant of Seville: A "Tall" Tale Based on a True Story

Denise Fleming, The First Day of Winter

Will Hillenbrand (illus.), Sleep Big Bear Sleep (Maureen Wright, author)

Loren Long, Otis

Marcia Schonberg, B is for Buckeye: An Ohio Alphabet (Bruce Langton,
illustrator)

The Choose to Read Ohio 2009-10 booklist:

Books for Adults

Ann Hagedorn, Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the
Underground Railroad

Toni Morrison, A Mercy

Dan Chaon, You Remind Me of Me

Lee Martin, River of Heaven 

Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin, edited by Henry
Louis Gates Jr. and Hollis Robbins

Books for Teens

Jaime Adoff, The Death of Jayson Porter

Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

Sharon M. Draper, Copper Sun

Chris Crutcher, Deadline

Jacqueline Woodson, After Tupac & D Foster

Books for Children

Louise Borden, The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime
Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey

Andrea Cheng, Where the Steps Were

Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings

Margaret Peterson Haddix, Found

Shelley Pearsall, Trouble Don't Last

Please contact library consultant Janet Ingraham Dwyer at 
jdwyer at library.ohio.gov <mailto:jdwyer at library.ohio.gov>  with any
questions or with feedback about your CTRO programs.

Marsha McDevitt-Stredney

Marketing & Communications Director

274 E. 1st Avenue

Columbus, OH 43201

Tel: 614-644-6875

Fax: 614-466-3584

www.library.ohio.gov <http://www.library.ohio.gov/> 

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