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We the People Bookshelf

The Green County Public Library is one of 4,000 libraries across the country selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA) to receive free hardcover editions of 19 classic books as part of the We the People Bookshelf grant program. The theme of this year’s Bookshelf is “Picturing America.” The award is part of the NEH’s We the People initiative, which supports projects that strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture. Selected libraries in all 50 states have received a set of the 22 books (including Spanish translations of three of the titles and two bonus titles). These new titles are now available for check out at the public library.

• Kindergarten to Grade 3: “Walt Whitman: Words for America” by Barbara Kerley; “Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez” by Kathleen Krull; “Cosechando esperenza: La historia de César Chávaz” by Kathleen Krull (translated by Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy);”The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; “Sweet Music in Harlem” by Debbie Taylor

• Grades 4 to 6: “The Birchbark House” by Louise Erdrich; “American Tall Tales” by Mary Pope Osborne; “On the Wings of Heroes” by Richard Peck; “Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule” by Harriette Gillem Robinet; “The Captain’s Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe” by Roland Smith

• Grades 7 to 8: “The Life and Death of Crazy Horse” by Russell Freedman; “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving; “La leyanda de Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving (translated by Manual Broncano); “Across America on an Emigrant Train” by Jim Murphy; “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain

• Grades 9 to 12: “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation” by Joseph J. Ellis; “Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange” by Elizabeth Partridge; “Travels with Charley in Search of America” by John Steinbeck; “Viajes Con Charley – En Busca de América” by John Steinbeck (translated by José Manuel Alvarez Flórez); “Democracy in America” by Alexis de Tocqueville

Senator David Givens
Senator David Givens dropped by the Green County Public Library June 16th and presented Director Shelley Pruitt with a copy of the Senator's READ poster and a DVD copy of "John Adams", movie based on the Pulitzer prize-winning book.

Picturing America

Green County Public Library is one of over 56,000 schools and public libraries across the nation awarded the Picturing America program. Picturing America is a free initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities that helps teach American history and culture by bringing some of the country's great art directly to classrooms and libraries.

Green County Public Library was awarded 40 large, high-quality reproductions of great American art and a comprehensive teacher's resource book to faciliate the use of the works of art in core subjects. Picturing America's resources are designed to allow each work of art to enhance the study of American history, social studies, language arts, literature, and civics. The works of Art are on display at the library for the remainder of the year and then will be cataloged and made available for teachers to check out and use in their classroom studies by January 2010.