Judy's Workshops
Winners! • Books Kids Will Sit Still For • Selecting Books for Children • Literature and Library Skills • Booktalking & Reading Aloud • Multicultural Books • Once Upon a Time • Storytelling • Hi Ho Librario • Keynote Speeches • Parent Programs • Musical Booktalk • BER Seminars
WINNERS!:
A Closer Look at the Year's 100 Best Books for Children
Judy Freeman's popular book and idea-packed full-day workshop, now being sponsored by her publisher, Libraries Unlimited, is presented every Spring in North, South, and Central New Jersey. For more than 20 years, WINNERS! has offered innovative and practical ways to use the best of the year's children's books for curricular connections, thematic tie-ins, resource-based learning, and just plain fun. It's a field day for K-6 classroom teachers, school and public librarians, library aides, reading specialists, curriculum coordinators, administrators, parents, and other children's literature-lovers.

For the best professional day of the year, here's what you'll find at Winners!:
  • lively, concise, honest evaluations of 100+ new and exemplary children's books chosen by Judy Freeman, major professional journals, and awards committees as the year's "best"

  • demonstrations of read-alouds, booktalks, storytelling, creative dramatics, Reader's Theater, poetry, songs, and a host of literature-based activities to excite kids about books

  • practical, motivating ways to enhance students' presentation skills to get them reading with comprehension, expression, fluency, and joy

  • scores of successful kid-tested techniques, prompts, and ideas for reading and writing to use immediately in school and library programs, booktalks, and lessons across the school curriculum

  • samples of student work, puppets, props, and tie-ins incorporating comprehension and higher level thinking skills to extend children's response to literature

  • irresistible new titles perfect for read-alouds, read-alones, Guided Reading, Literature Circles, and Book Clubs

  • a comprehensive handbook with a thoroughly annotated and indexed booklist of the year's best children's books, lesson plans, teacher's guides, stories, songs, and Internet resource list

  • a chance to personally examine all titles discussed, plus the opportunity to buy a variety of the best new titles at our convenient conference bookstore

  • a day to laugh, connect, share, and celebrate literature with leading teachers, librarians, and other children's book hounds

  • unlimited reasons to fall in love with children's literature all over again
2008 "WINNERS!" SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY:
8:00 - 8:30 REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:30 - 10:15 LANGUAGE ARTS: Books about Books & Words / Reading & Writing

10:15 - 10:30 BREAK (& BOOK LOOK)

10:30 - 12:00 MORE LANGUAGE ARTS: School Stories & Memorable Characters / Writing & Reading & / Reader's Theater

12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH (& BOOK LOOK)

1:00 - 2:00 BOOKS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: The Arts / Math / Science / Social Studies

2:00 - 2:10 BREAK (& BOOK LOOK)

2:10- 3:00 FOLKLORE AND FANTASY: STORYTELLING

INSTRUCTOR:
JUDY FREEMAN is a well-known consultant and writer on all aspects of children's literature, storytelling, booktalking, and school librarianship. She teaches children's literature and storytelling courses at Pratt Institute's School of Information and Library Science in New York City. A former school librarian, Judy gives seminars and speeches on children's literature throughout the U.S. and abroad for teachers, librarians, parents, and children, and is a national presenter for BER (Bureau of Education and Research) www.ber.org. Judy served as a member of the Newbery Committee to select the Newbery Award book for the year 2000 and as a member of the 2008 Sibert Committee to select the most distinguished informational children's books published in 2007.

JUDY'S popular Books Kids Will Sit Still For: The Complete Read-Aloud Guide, (Libraries Unlimited, 1990; 1-800-225-5800; www.lu.com) and its companions, More Books Kids Will Sit Still For (1995), and Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3 (2006) are indispensable resources for literature-based classrooms. Her Hi Ho Librario!: Songs, Chants, and Stories to Keep Kids Humming is a book and CD package (Rock Hill Press, 1997; 610-667-2375; www.rockhillworks.com). Judy is a children's book reviewer for School Library Media Activities Monthly, School Library Journal's Curriculum Connections, and NoveList.


LOCATION AND REGISTRATION:
Your registration fee of $179 includes conference registration, refreshments, lunch, extensive conference handbook, and a certificate of participation (5 professional development contact hours). Judy Freeman is a registered NJ Department of Education Continuing Education Provider.

CHOOSE FROM SIX DATES AND FIVE LOCATIONS:
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 The Mansion, Voorhees, NJ
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Birchwood Manor, Whippany, NJ
Thursday, May 1, 2008 The Pines, Edison, NJ
Friday, May 2, 2008 The Pines, Edison, NJ

TO REGISTER, GO TO: www.lu.com/winners or CONTACT:
Debby LaBoon, Author Relations & Workshops Manager
Libraries Unlimited Professional Workshops Department
7570 Thorn Creek Lane
Tega Cay, SC 29708
PHONE: 803-547-5206 (or leave voice mail at 800-225-5800 X3504)
FAX: 803-547-4387

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
www.LU.com/winners

If you are unable to attend and/or would like to order additional WINNERS! Handbooks or any of Judy's books, you'll find them all at www.LU.com or your favorite online bookstore or jobber.

Want to see Judy's complete booklists for her Winners! conferences each year? If you have an account at Follett's Titlewave.com , for which all teachers and librarians can register for free, log in. Click on "Curriculum" at the top of the page, then click on the link for "Popular Subject Lists," and then scroll down and click on "Judy Freeman." You'll find Judy's Winners! and BER lists for the past several years.