Book Links Sept. 2008 (vol. 18, no. 1)

Web Connections for September 2008

The Web sites listed below were verified at the time of publication, but please check that they remain valid before using them in an educational setting.

Best New Books for the Classroom

1. A downloadable reading guide for Afrika by Colleen Craig is available from the Tundra Web site.
2. A downloadble discussion guide for Susanna Reich’s Painting the Wind is available from her Web site.
3. A downloadable reading guides for Erdrich’s Birchbark House series is available from HarperCollins.

Voices in My Head: Audiobooks Alive with the Sound of Music

• Mary Burkey's downloadable PDF list  for September's "Voices in My Head" column lists audiobooks featuring music.
• For Mary Burkey’s audiobook lexicon, see AudioFile magazine’s “Talking the Talk: An Audiobook Lexicon.”

A Taste of Teen Read Week

• For Teen Read Week programming ideas, the related wiki, and other helpful links for this annual celebration, visit YALSA’s Teen Read Week Web site.

The Art of Making Mazes

• Maze creator Christopher Berg’s site Amazeingart.com provides a number of free downloadable mazes as well as a tutorial, “Learn How to Draw Mazes,” and an overview of maze types and terms.
• For more on the history of mazes and labyrinths, ancient mazes, maze patterns, turf and hedge mazes, visit Jo Edkin’s site, The History of Mazes and Labyrinths. Edkin’s also provides information on how to design a variety of mazes and an interactive Online Maze Designer.
• Learn more about labyrinths at Roxie Munro’s Web site for step-by-step instructions for making a geometric and a Random Roxie maze. Visitors can also print out five of Munro’s mazes to solve and color.