{"id":2630,"date":"2020-05-29T20:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T20:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2020-05-29T20:24:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T20:24:31","slug":"golden-sower-2021-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/2020\/05\/29\/golden-sower-2021-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Sower 2021-2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <strong>Shawna Lindner<\/strong> <br> Youth Services Librarian &#8211; Kearney Public Library <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With many libraries and schools closed across the state, and <strong>the CPLS Golden Sower Reading Day in Kearney canceled<\/strong>, access to books may be a little more difficult for you this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An option for the\nPicture Books is to go online and view the books on YouTube videos. Many of our\nnominees are read online, giving you access to the words and illustrations.\nThey are quite simple to find!&nbsp; Search in the video section of Google,\ntyping in the title of the book and author. Or, just go directly to YouTube!\n&nbsp;Here is an example of&nbsp;<em>I am Not a Fish! By Peter\nRaymundo&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2kShZL35Qn4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/2kShZL35Qn4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact Shawna Lindner\nat <a href=\"mailto:SLindner@kearneygov.org\"><strong>SLindner@kearneygov.org<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>to sign up to be a reader and be\ngiven access to the final&nbsp;copy of\nthe\nPicture Book reading list for 2021-2022.\nKeep in mind, Picture Book selections should be\nappropriate for Kindergarten through 2nd grade students (ages 5 \u2013 9). Please\nread and select titles as if you are seeing them through a child\u2019s eye, select\nwhat they will enjoy, not based on what will fit curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An option for the\nChapter Books list is to read the books as eBooks through OverDrive. Many\nschools and public libraries offer this service for free to their patrons.\nPlease know we understand you may not be able to read all of the titles. Read\nas many as you can and adjust your voting accordingly. If you read 20 books and\nonly 5 stand out, submit 5 votes instead of 10.&nbsp; Our voting is percentage\nbased, so it will all balance out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact Shawna Lindner\nat <a href=\"mailto:SLindner@kearneygov.org\"><strong>SLindner@kearneygov.org<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>to sign up to be a reader and be given access to the\nfinal&nbsp;copy of the Chapter Book reading list for 2021-2022. Keep in mind,\nChapter Book selections should be appropriate for 3rd through 5th grade\nstudents (ages 9 \u2013 12).&nbsp;Please read and select titles as if you are seeing\nthem through a child\u2019s eye, select what they will enjoy, not based on what will\nfit curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Voting:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>An electronic ballot will be sent to you via email. You are able to vote for up to ten titles.\u00a0Please plan to submit your votes no later than midnight on Monday, July 20, 2020. With summer schedules unknown at this time, I wanted to share a deadline date to aim for. It is possible this date may be adjusted to a later date.<\/li><li>Due to COVID 19, the date and location of the selection\/discussion meeting will be announced at a later time. Thank you for understanding.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawna Lindner Youth Services Librarian &#8211; Kearney Public Library With many libraries and schools closed across the state, and the CPLS Golden Sower Reading Day in Kearney canceled, access to books may be a little more difficult for you this <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/2020\/05\/29\/golden-sower-2021-2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Golden Sower 2021-2022<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-programs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}