All right. Good morning and welcome to, I don't know if you think so too much here. There we go. Good morning. And welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live, actually welcome to the first Encompass Live of 2018. Yay, yay. New shows. This is also the start of the 10th year of Encompass Live. Pretty astounding. So we started Encompass Live started in January of 2009. So this January of 2018 is the beginning of our 10th year. We've got nine years in the bag. And so we hope we have a great 10th year coming for you. No pressure. Everything's going to be great. Encompass Live is the Library Commission's weekly online event. Yes, we are a webinar and proud of it. Obviously, we've been doing it for 10 years. Well, we cover a variety of library related topics. The show is broadcast live online at 10 a.m. 10 a.m. Central Time. But if you are unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. We record every week's shows and then they're posted onto our website. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can see all of our archives. And we do have them going all the way back to January 2009. We're librarians. We say things. Both the live show and recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, neighbors, family, colleagues, anybody who you think may be interested in any of the topics that you may see. They can watch them. We have the, in the recordings, we have the presentation itself is recorded and then if there are any slides or handouts or documents that are included, websites, important websites that are mentioned, we have links of those as well afterwards. You have access to everything when you look at the recordings. We do a mixture of things here on the show. Booker views, interviews, training sessions, demos of products and services. Basically the only criteria is that is something related to libraries. Something libraries are doing, something we think they could be doing, showing off what libraries are doing around the country. Sometimes they're a Nebraska library commission staff that come on and share programs and things we're doing here specifically. The state of Nebraska. We also bring guest speakers from across the state, from libraries across Nebraska, and from across the country. We have all types of libraries. We are the library commission. We are for all types of libraries, so public academic school, corrections, museum, anything. We find our, our, our, our topics are all over the place. Very, very, very, very, but always libraries that is our main criteria. So, as I said, we sometimes have guest speakers on and we sometimes have commission staff and today we have commission staff with me is Sally Snyder who is here at the library commission she is our coordinator of children and young adult library services. She gets to get all the cool kids and teens books and read them. Yes. Yes. And today she's going to be talking about the best new children's books that came out in 2017. This is a companion presentation to the one that she did last month. So you want to look for that best need teen books of 2017. So she was specifically for teens and older kids and then this one will be for preschool through elementary school. I'll just hand over to Sally to take away into us about what you're sharing with us. Some of this may be repetitive for those of you who tuned in before, but I want to be sure that particularly new people, but everybody remembers where to find things and a little bit about how I go about putting my lists together. So we'll start with where to find things on the library commission homepage. Could you type in handouts in the search box and hit this search button. That's the top thing that comes up so far with the star buy it says the rescue library commission handouts. So far this is all my page. It doesn't have to be my page if anybody else decides they want to be sure that's great with me but here's where you can find handouts from presentations I've given. And you can see that we go we talked about do we need to keep things from 2008. Well, so far there's still up there if you want to look and see what I recommended in 2008. The reason I'm pointing here today is that these lists, the best children's books, and the best new teen books which I did with Jill Panace from Grandview Elkhorn Grandview Middle School are were prepared for the NLA NSLA conference so we plopped the handouts here. You can click on just the list of books with the children's books is just the list of books. There you are. And so if you're just saving paper and just want to know what the titles are there you go. But just this morning Janet put up my best new children's books 2017 with words. So you can read along as I talk about these books if you want to, or you can just print that out and save it for later. So you don't have to do a lot of work. You can just mark it up and say buy for the next summit don't lie. And we did actually get the best new team looks up this morning to which I meant to do earlier and lost track of time. So you can look at both of those when it's convenient for you and you can find them anytime on the library commission page. So that's for that. So now we'll get on with the presentation today and I just spend a couple of minutes saying I put these books in general categories like picture books, nonfiction picture books, books for grades three to five or six something like that. And that's all a generalization because we all know any one child will read at their level and I want you to have a variety of choices for many of the kids that come into your library, whether it's school or public or other. And so that's why these are here. The library commission receives a number of books from publishers for us to look mostly me I do hand some out sometimes people to read for me. And they come in here I go through them and look at them read a lot of them but not all of them. And then when we're I'm done with them we put them on a shelf in the library system with directors come and take them and hand them out to libraries in their their system to put in their collection. So these are temporarily in the area where I work and then they go away. And then they I find out that they won the Newberry award and it went away. But that's okay because I don't really have a collection of new very best. Hopefully they're ready to donate to us by publishers for you to review and look at it. Well, give it to us by public and then we're then they're donated through our regional library systems for those of you not in the rest we have four regions to our local public libraries at no cost to them so in school. Public library so because there's constant flow of books coming and going in this one area of the commission which is kind of cool. Now not every publisher sends me books and not none of the publishers send me everything. I wouldn't have room for it. But so I also go to the public library down the street talk with other people read blogs and other things to get ideas of what am I missing that I have. Have not received a copy. So if your favorite book is not on my list. It may not be because I didn't think it might be I just haven't seen it so it's amazing how many books that are published. I know something will get in a warn of a never heard of that. I was like, how did I miss this but that's how it goes. So we'll get started best new children's books from 2017 talking to you in January 2018. So we'll start with picture books. And I'm just going to read from my paper here because otherwise we'll be here till three this afternoon. My other conference. Charlotte one of many, many siblings is frustrated. Whenever she tries an experiment following the scientific method of brothers and sisters get in the way or break her beakers and other things for solution. A trip to the moon in a spaceship that resembles a carrot and built by Charlotte. She finally has time to herself that she can concentrate on her experiments. But then something's wrong. She's lonely. She even misses being squished. She returns home to her family and uses her spaceship as her laboratory, a space of her own. And it includes a two page spread at the back of the book explaining the steps in the scientific method, which I think really makes this a terrific picture book. Mac Barnett has done it again, trying all walks to visit his friend square. Okay, I was trying because I like there's nothing on the cover, but that's true. Sure. That's different. So the other book is just trying trying. Okay. Triangle walks to visit his friend square and to play a trick on him. He goes past some small, medium and large triangles, then past some squares. He plays his trick and he runs home, runs home with square following and then square plays a trick on triangle. So was it really a trick or was it just an accident? That's up for us to decide. It contains short sentences and a white background for the art. This is pretty much what you get. This is book two about Mighty Truck. Clarence is an ordinary truck who was off on a journey and one day the boss sent him to the truck wash and lightning struck while he was in there. Then he became Mighty Truck, who regularly saves the day. So in the second story, Clarence and his truck friend Bruno go to Muddy Mania to spend some time together and cheer for the competitors. It is Bruno who first notices their friend Flo was in trouble. She was exhausted and she's fallen asleep. Now she is rolling faster and faster downhill right toward the stands. Now Mighty Truck knows he needs to protect his identity, but he has to find a way to help save Flo. So they find a way for Clarence to become Mighty Truck and together the two of them save Flo. And besides Bruno only knew that he was Mighty Truck. This is keeping him to the secret of him. This is great fun. Samson is a piranha who enjoys fine dining. The problem is as soon as he arrives at any restaurant, everyone there panics and runs away yelling piranha piranha. Oh dear, he tries to disguise but his true self is soon revealed. He is discouraged, but then he realizes the thing to do is open up a restaurant himself. All fearsome looking fish are welcome. Attentive listeners will see a few gentle looking fish wearing disguises in order to fit in with the usual clientele of this new restaurant. I think it shows problem solving and fun and it's going to be a great popular one for story time. This is a 2017 Caldecott Honor book. Granny just wants to knit sweaters for her grandchildren before the weather turns cold. But they play with the yarn and unwind it until Granny has to go find a quiet place to knit. Shouting, leave me alone. She leaves and tries the forest. But Bear Cubs play with the yarn. She tries going higher and encounters mountain goats. Even higher, she climbs from the mountain top to the moon where little green moon men bother her. Finally, she steps through a wormhole to knit the sweaters in the dark quiet. When she's finished, she leaves the wormhole and she ends up at home with her grandchildren happy to see her loving their new sweaters. Sometimes you have to go to great lengths to just have some quiet time. Oh, this one, I love this. A giraffe is puzzled and frustrated when other animals keep assuming he is a chair. Finally, he says, I am speaking up to the next animal I see. The next animal is a lion. What will he do now? He stands still because he doesn't want to be eaten. At the end of the story, the giraffe sits down on what appears to be a stone. But is it? Very clever. Bill, a tugboat and his friend Mabel, a barge are not new, shiny or fast, but they get the job done. The fancier boats snubbed him. One day, a little kitten falls into the water. None of the other boats seem to care, but Bill and Mabel get the kitten out of the water. And next day, they're in the paper. Old and small can still save the day. I love this one. Jabari is ready to jump off the high board. Or is he? He has passed his swim lessons and it looks easy until he gets to the ladder. The supported father lets Jabari set the pace and gives him some good advice. A pivotal moment in childhood is captured with empathy and understanding. And kids will be rooting for him. The young boy goes through his morning routine, which somewhat mimics what Superman is doing, such as facing the spheres. Superman faces Kryptonite and the boy faces his similarly green toothbrush and toothpaste. The book has past illustrations. One side showing the boy and the other section showing Superman. It's a positive upbeat story. And don't worry because we have be a star wonder woman too. With the girl facing the new challenges of her day. Just like Wonder Woman. At school. Oh, sorry. I think there was, isn't there one that's a good night Batman one that does the same thing with Batman? And it's about going to bed and do the things you do. So we're going to sleep at night. I've seen that in a previous one. But I haven't read them. I haven't gotten any of my hands on that. But yeah, there is, there is that. And there might be a couple more I haven't found yet. But this is a positive upbeat story. And I think it's about the girls. At school, the girl is kind, great, honest, strong and never gives up. While the girl faces her challenges at school from the opposite page Wonder Woman is depicted facing challenges as well. And this is another positive upbeat story. And beyond the lookout for some of the other ones that I think there's more than just these two and the Batman one. There might be some more help there. Oh yeah, there's a bedtime for Batman. I think is what it's called. Yeah. Good night back kids, there's a bunch of different ones, but yeah, and this is something I think you're talking about and I've seen them where they have each side as one is the child doing something, the other one's a superhero doing something similar, yeah. So depending on what superhero your child might be interested in. These'll get checked out. Yes. This is crazy. Rock can beat anyone in an instant in the kingdom of the backyard. There is no challenge for him. So he leaves to find the worthy opponent. Paper is the smartest in the empire of mom's home office. After out winning the printer in those in the office trash bin, he also leaves seeking a challenge. Scissors in the kitchen realm, battles all even dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets and he leaves as well. He's just thrilled in the cavern of two car garage to find someone who can beat them. So they're not dismayed when like scissors isn't dismayed when rock can come out of there.  So it's a great silly plan. A number of pieces of equipment are working in the empty lot and little excavator has just joined them. But everything he tries to do ends up not working or he's just too small. Until the task only little excavator can do cross the new wooden bridge and plant an apple tree on the small island and he feels big. I think that this will be satisfying for little readers to see that small can still be hopeful. This is a sequel to the 2017 Golden Sower picture book winner Gaston, that's the Nebraska Children's Choice Award called the Golden Sower. So this is a sequel having been raised in the letter of bulldogs who each have found their special talent. And when that wonders what she is good at doing she just really hasn't found anything special. But when Oolala, a puppy from the poodle clan goes missing, she finds herself following the scent to locate her and maybe she has found her special talent. One day as the other letters were spelling words little eyes dot fell off and went over the cliff into the sea. Now little eye looked like a number one. So Oolala went into the boat, shaped like a question mark to find his dot. He can't make a word with a number one word. He found an island that had, now these aren't named until the back of the book but there's an exciting waterfall made of exclamation marks, a tunnel made of parentheses, gems in the tunnel which are asterisks, a garden of sprouts which are commas and a spine chilling bridge which is a hyphen. At the very end his dot which is now a period. Now the dot has a different job. So little eye left him there and sailed home again. And when he got home, he was a big guy. So he didn't need his dog. It's a fun introduction to punctuation. It might with the artwork making it very colorful and clear. I think it's gonna be great fun. Kevin Henke's has egg. There was very little text of the simple story of four eggs, each a different color, what hatched and the hatchlings connection to each other. The last egg takes a bit longer to hatch. What do the listeners think might be in them? A young girl living in a village on the African plain delays bed type by saying good night to many animals and finally some ants and a rock. Yes, because we all have to say good night to a rock. The fun for adults and children who are familiar with it is when now in bed, she wants to say good night to her book and the moon. This is of course, good night moon, the book she says. So be prepared to read that title. Two bear-like creatures, one large and one smaller, try to be brave while in line for the roller coaster. The smaller one mentions there are much scarier things like snakes. They list a few other scary things until the roller coaster cars arrive and there's a snake in one of them. He looks a little stunned but he stays in the car and the two creatures sit in front of him for the next drive. The readers and listeners will enjoy seeing the three zoom up the tracks and then fly around the loop before finally shouting, I am scared. Then the three ride it again. It is good to admit when you are scared and roller coasters can be written again and again while still feeling a little scared. That's the fun part. Yeah. This is more than an opposite spoke. It also conveys a parent and child relationship showing love, care, and empathy also with some humor. Some rhyming as well as subtle grammar and language use. Me cool, you cooler. Civil artwork fills the story and adds to the fun. This is just plays on words. The letter I, a private I, is sitting in his office when the number six comes running in. He is scared. Rumor was seven, eight, nine and now six is sure he's next. Plenty of plays on words, four numbers in this hard-boiled detective story. When six says seven is after him, the private I says, well, technically he's always after you. There's five, then six, then seven. And yes, it goes there, yes. But a completely different one. This is based on a true incident. Sarajevo in 1992, a boy Drasco was manning his father's flower stand while his father was away fighting in the morgue. Then one morning at 10 o'clock, a mortuary hits the bakery just down the street and 22 people were killed. The next day, the square is empty, but at 10 a.m., one man dressed in a tuxedo comes out of the orchestra's rehearsal hall. He puts down a chair near the bakery and plays beautiful music on his cello, then stands up and leaves. For 22 days, he plays the music, one for each of the lives that were lost and the people in the square begin to heal. And it includes a historical note and an author's note at the back of the book. And there's, I think there's a link where you can hear the pedagio that we took. That was very good. This is the story of the duties of a school bus and the need for people to obey the law. Similar to other titles by the author, it doesn't quite have the same charm with the others in this series, but it will still be a good purchase and kids like to read about the school bus. This is the first recipient of the Anna Dumy Read Together Award sponsored by Penguin Young Readers, The Children's Book Council and Every Child Reader. Edward A Pig is extremely tidy and avoids a mess. Then one day at school, as he is replacing the paint jars on the shelf, a drop of paint plants on his shirt, then all the paint jars fall and he is splattered all over. Soon he is reveling in the mess and now he knows being messy is okay because he can always clean it. Maybe his mom doesn't want to know that. This is a gentle and lyrical book looking at what occurs above the pond and what occurs within the pond, which the book calls under. The page is often divided, showing both over and under at the same time. There's a paragraph on each of the animals in the book that's included at the back. This follows over and under the snow, up in the garden and down in the dirt and this is the third title in that series. Beautiful art by Kavir Nelson and spare text celebrates all that is America. Wordplay is used occasionally, such as an illustration of a colonial woman sewing a U.S. flag with the words sew together one nation, S-E-W together, W-O-N nation. And on the opposite page is an illustration of many faces with the words, sew together, S-O, one nation, O-N-E. It is powerful. As Mr. Nelson said in his note, I hope this work will always remind us that of every evolving country was forged by and for people from all walks of life in every manner. Mm-hmm. Another wonderful retelling of a popular folk tale with outstanding artwork. He often notes at the back of the book that this story gave him trouble because in many versions, the troll does not have the opportunity to learn this lesson. Mr. Pinkby found a satisfying way for this to happen in his version. I will say it again, it is great that Pinkby is retelling both folk tales and fables so children today can hear them. Because I noticed sometimes kids are lacking in this. Yeah, they don't know that's builder stories. Oh, great fun. Don't think just Halloween. Jasper Rabbit from Creepy Carrots is back and is beginning to feel a little more grown up. When his mom takes him to buy some new underwear, he asked for one pair of Creepy underwear to go with his plain white ones. That night he wore them to bed but they glowed in ghoulish green. So he changed your pair of white ones and put the green ones in the laundry. The next morning, he was wearing them again. Try and see my Jasper cannot lose the Creepy underwear. It isn't until he goes back, crack and hopper field and buries them on three king or hill. Still, something is wrong and readers will love the final solution. A celebration of creativity which does not always thrive in the classroom. This is made clear. My favorite page says, I'm really good at being me, a dreamer, surprising, caring, funny, gentle, smart. You could use this to ask kids to note their own descriptors. Who are they inside? And have them write that down. Every day on the way to school, Pax gives the pigeon he named Blue a pinch of his toast. But today his mom is in a hurry and Blue gets nothing. Blue follows him down the stairs and into the subway train where other people overreact and try to shoot Blue away. Pax held Blue off the train by tossing his pinch out the door when it opens. Blue follows and all is well. He's there the next day to shoot. But he loves stories and one night he finds his way into the library through the book drop. He gathered a stack of books and took them home. Soon he lets his friend Porcupine in on the secret and before long, many of his friends joined him at the library until one night the librarian turns on the lights. She carefully explains the rules and gives each of them their own library cover. That's when they know when he can bring his books home and bring them back because he wasn't doing that so much. Lots of strange things come through book drops we hear from other librarians. I don't know if I've ever heard of a live rabbit coming through, but hey. It's a bit of an entrance for a little bit. Spring, sunshine, flowers blooming. Porcupine, we're not there yet. No, gosh, I'm not saying. At first it appears to me that we can dream. We can dream, yes. This book will help we dream. At first it appears to be a perfect day for everyone. The cat, the dog, the bird, the squirrel. But it actually turns out to be a perfect day for the just awakened bear. Lou can't climb a tree. She is not shy or quiet, but the tree stumps her. She tries hard to avoid the issue, but her friends are all in the tree playing pirate, calling to her. Finally, she decides she will eventually manage it just not today. Supported friends continue to play with her and agree one day she will climb the tree. The bear, Tule, has another, he has several books. Press here was the first one I ran across that he had created. This time, he often uses dots, lines, and swatches to get the readers to say, oh, ah, and wahoo. Using their fingers to touch the colored dots, blue for oh, red for oh, and yellow for wahoo. With more and more dots on the page and then with sliding lines, it's lots of fun. And soup comes at the very end of the book. In the park, shown in the front page, papers, the green worm is trying to find the pink worm. In the grass on a boat under a lily pad and more, listeners will love finding the pink worm in as many places I looked on the pond. Three different times before I found him, but I don't know, I'm sure a kid would have found him right away. Simple text leads into the illustrations to carry the story. Other animals and people in the book are oblivious to the worms, even the bird that's hopping by. Which is a blessing, but good for the worms, though. That's true. Some beginning readers. Pete the cat continues to be very popular. In this one, he's helping the tooth fairy and that's thoughtful and considerate. But what if Pete cannot find the tooth and to guess the platypus is pillow? Well, in his room, platypuses have no teeth. Desk just wanted to be part of the tooth fairy fun and then so Pete gives him a coin and the tooth fairy approves. There's a couple books here from the I Can Read level of the My Word School, which started fairly recently. My Word School was more of an early chapter book, but now we have these I Can Read level ones. In this one, one of the newer books, sorry. Alexia hopes the new class pet will be something cool, not a bunny. The class with both results and a snake and eastern hog nose. The children take turns bringing in their own pets to school and Andrea's cool of barks right by the tank. The tank that Bob the snake is in and he rolls over and dies. Well, that's terrible. The children panic, but Bob is not dead. He is playing dead. Aw, cute. So we can do a little looking into what other animals are playing dead. Yeah. In this one, Andrea and AJ are going by themselves on a school trip to the museum. Mr. Cooper has warned the museum educator that one of the students might misbehave, but it may not be who you expect. AJ usually misbehaves, and Andrea is kind of super close to the rules, but sometimes, if you don't know that ahead of time, you might think something different has happened. This is the fourth book about Bramble and Maggie. A major winter storm is on the way. We can relate more to this book at this time. So Maggie and Bramble, the family and neighbors, all prepare water in the bathtub for Bramble, extra food from the grocery store, covering the hay pile and shutting Bramble and Herschad, but the door won't quite latch. The next morning, Bramble is free from Herschad, but Maggie and her family are tracked by snow in the house. A handful of cereal toss out the door, starts Bramble digging for it in front of the steps. Now to take some shovels and help their neighbors. Yeah, just go ahead. I thought I could finish that sentence by then.  Let's do this one, didn't I? Clark is ready. Tomorrow, everyone will give their cook reports. Some others students are nervous, so the teacher says, be bold, be smart, and speak from the heart. Clark is not nervous at all until he stands in front of the class the next day. His mind went blank. The students encourage him, but then his teacher repeats his advice and then with words, come back to him. It's good encouragement for those who are nervous about speaking in front of others. Clark's bravado beforehand is typical of students the age of the expected readers. Now this one, it's right after the button, it's pretty interesting. This is another Elephant and Piggy-like reading book which you can see a little bit of the label at the end of the date. Yellowbird has a button that does nothing. He presses it to show that nothing happens. Bluebird presses the button and is surprised that it is so easy to press. Then it shows a philosophical discussion. Does the button do nothing if it surprises Bird, does not surprise Redbird, and thus makes him sad, makes Bluebird and Redbird happy, makes them all funny, and gives the woman the whole of the tree stump a headache. It also shows good manners as the other birds first ask if they can press the button.  Who? And I don't know what age philosophy says how many things, but why not? Fancy Nancy's younger sister Jojo and her dad are baking a cake. One by one, people ask who the cake is for and she says it's a secret. They are careful in the kitchen, let others help, and dad handles all the dangerous parts. It's a simple and fun father and daughter story. This is the fifth and final book in the Pig and the Whig series. The Pig and the Whig waits up just in time to rush to her waste car for the beginning of the cross-country race. A spin and a thud landed by the side of the road with a flat tire. Her crew was right there to help. Rhyming text as expected tells the story. We'll move on to early chapter books. This is the third book in the Inspector Flytrap series. It's more silly adventures as Inspector Flytrap, a real flytrap playing, works to solve another mystery. It would help if his assistant, the goat, stopped eating the clues and the evidence. That goat eats everything it can get near. These are hilarious. This is the first book in this new series. Mr. Wolf as a big, big bad. And this is Mr. Snake, the chicken swallower, Mr. Piranha, the butt fighter, and Mr. Shark, Jaws, to join his new Good Guys Club. They are reluctant. First, some practice. Rescue a kitty stuck in a tree. Oh, the many teeth that kitty sees looking up and then he is not coming down. Next job, rescue 200 dogs from the pound. It should go like clockwork. No. Told in graphic novel style. There's a couple of art jokes. The cartoon style artwork really makes the story. And book two is Mission Unpluckable. After the TV news reported the rescue of the dogs at the pound as frightening and terrifying for the dogs, Mr. Wolf is determined that he will be hailed as heroes for their next rescue, 10,000 chickens held in cages at Sunnyside Chicken Farm, a place impossible to break into. So they are joined by legs at Taranches. Mr. Shark is terrified of legs. What to go wrong? There are two other books out. I haven't read books three and four. So if you've got these work just silly fun and I think they'll be very popular. This is a part of Humphrey's Tiny Tales. This is book six. Sorry. Garth hides a small treasure chest under Humphrey's bedding. It is the prize for the upcoming treasure hunt for his class being held in his backyard. But when it comes time for the prize, it is not there. The riddle clues will grab the readers and who took the prize will also battle them. There are plenty of illustrations with some all text pages thrown in between them. Adventurous best friends, Murchel, Manlion, Finn sometimes go outside the allowed area near their undersea home. Stories of dangerous crackens and two legs seem more like legend than truth.  It is up to Lily to rescue him. Adventure, humor, and murky bull will appeal to yours. Another series, this is the first book in it. Sophie works as a maid in the castle and is astounded when she overhears the queen and surfits right at green. They should rid the kingdom of all the magical animals that live in the nearby forest. When a little dragon crash lands in the apple orchard, Sophie hides him and is determined to return him to his family. It helps that a magic stone she found will help her to talk with the dragon. A light fantasy that will appeal to magic fans with illustrations usually on every other two page spread. And book two is the sky unicorn. Ava and her family live on boats that travel the rivers and with others perform plays to entertain the people. When Ava realizes a baby sky unicorn, unicorn has been captured by Sir Fincher. She knows it is up to her and her new friends don't need to free it. If you have magical creature fans at your library for remaining ones in the series goes up to number six. So you might want to look and see through. The first two are popular, you might want to get some of the other ones. I have them listed on the handout to you to read all the titles. Another series, this is the first title in the new series, Calpurnia Tate Grovet, aimed at younger readers than the original title, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. Fortunately, they will follow this story fine without having read the Newbury Honor book of 2010. This series is set in Texas in 1901. Calpurnia 12 discovers that her younger brother, who's 11, has brought home a baby skunk for a pet since it was abandoned. Complications grow when Travis discovers a runt skunk in the same nest and rescues it too. They're trying to keep this all secret from their mother, but it's only a matter of time. The second book, Calpurnia hopes to help the butterfly with a damaged wing. But her mother's price sheep is expecting and while Calpurnia knows she can help, she cannot let her mother know that she's wins the book in the veterinarian's office. It is not made to do that. When Snow White has trouble, the bed is not available and it's up to Calpurnia to save the sheep and the land. Each title contains science and animal information and non-intrusive, and there's going to be more in this series too. Book two about the infamous ratso's book one was so great. This one is fun too. Louis and Ralphie Ratso enjoy the carnival and decide to have their friends join them to clean up a bacon pot to create a carnival for everybody. The lot is next door to the spooky house below and Louis doesn't want to get too close to that.  They need to worry about a deal with, but they can do it. This is the third and final book in the Detective Gordon series. Retirement was great at first, lots of rest and fishing, but now Detective Gordon is born and so he stops by outside the police station in the middle of the night just to see if everything is all right. Buffy is doing fine, but she is a bit uncertain about her detecting abilities and something big is waking her up at night but that's grappling at the window pane. Now the two new, now two children have run away from the kindergarten, they're missing and they will take all of Buffy and Gordon's skill to solve the puzzle as early as they wait. These are such gentle mystery stories. Each one had a mystery to it, but very satisfied. Now if you want something hilarious, it's a little bit crazier. This is the sequel to eight class pets plus one squirrel divided by one dog equal chaos. That's the name of the first one. But you don't have to have read that to enjoy this one. The squirrel Twitch enjoys educating the dog turtles, today the snow blowing into his usually comfortable home in the tree, he decides to use to squirrel entrance, the chimney, and visit the warm house. While Twitch believes his welcome is heartfelt and polite, he does not realize he is not welcome at all. Chaos ensues and after Twitch leaves, he finds the younger boy walking away in the snow without any kind of coat or anything to keep him warm. He enlists turtles, the dog's help to get the people to follow them to the boy and the kids will love cuddles trick to get them outside. He indicates that he really, really needs to go outside. All ends well. Well, the type is a little more dense than most early chapter books, but the numerous illustrations and only 72 pages will draw in readers, only one, two page spreads without even a tiny illustration. This is a book too about B Garcia and her love of drawing. Book one is titled My Life in Pictures. I didn't see book one, but I do certainly think this is a good choice. The big geography test is coming and Judith Einstein asked me to be recording, but there was so much memorizing and he keeps turning to drawing. She thinks that if she uses Einstein's pencil, the answers will flow out of it, but that doesn't happen. The ponders that the act of picking up Einstein's pencil after a bill on the floor is stealing or not. And she is joyful when Judith is eager for B to use her drawing in the contest for extra points. So they really compliment each other in this contest as it turns out that we didn't understand that in the first place. Some nonfiction picture books. 40 Follows by Joel Satori with poetry in high key format for the most part by Kwame Alexander, employ young readers and their families to love and care about the amazing variety of animals in our world. It is beautiful. They had pictures from this at the Omaha Henry Drilly Zoo. I know that this early, I'm just the whole photo arc thing. And this reminds me of, I believe, yeah, this earlier this year went to the Henry Drilly Zoo up at Omaha and they had big displays like I can't put tall on each side, pictures and little things about each of them. So it might be related to this book potentially. I don't know. I don't know if those things are still there, but they were this past summer. Let's see what's going on. As a young boy, John Lewis was put in charge of the chickens. The family said, work hard and put your trust in God. John took very good care of the chickens. And since he planned to be a preacher, when he grew up, he practiced preaching to them as well. It's a good snapshot of the childhood of a man who would soon grow up to become a US Congress now. A picture book biography of William Playbair and how his ambition for fame and fortune did not happen. He invented the line bar and circle graphs, how that came about. He didn't have enough details, actually, he's numbers so he came up with a different way to demonstrate it. They were finally accepted years after his death. A look at two young Robins from Nest to Independence includes some humor and bits of information young readers will want to know. On the tough side, one egg in their nest is eaten by a squirrel before the parent returns and later a fledgling brother is picked off by a haw with a shriek. While that is part of life, it could be helpful for you to know ahead of time if you read the book to kids. The author asks the question, do you like to dance? The next two page spread talks about an animal that does it too, in this case, the honeybee, and includes a paragraph on why. A brief paragraph of additional information on each animal is included at the back of the book. I read books about animals all I could when I was a kid so I would love these kinds of things, including this one. The author looks at a group of animals and mentions one different aspect of each and then says, we'll close it now. They all have something. It might be whiskers, shells, wings, something. It's a challenge for the reader or listener to look at the differences and the similarities. A two page spread at the back of the book discusses animal characteristics. You can ask the children to meet other animals that have the same similarities or differences. The fiction for grades two to five or so, roughly. This is the second book about Maya tips. Naomi continues to go beyond challenge Maya, who's nine, to a bet as to which of them will win the fourth grade wall of fame game in this book. Best friend, Kylie Tate, helps Maya get back on track and realize that the wall of fame that they am in stands for, for all my efforts and should not be something people bet on, but instead something on which they try their best to learn sucks. The second book about rocket and brute is Keep On Trucking. It starts out with black, purple and white illustrations. It's like a graphic novel. Well, there's text in there too. But on page 29, the illustrations on every page are full color. They are out of gas and land on a planet called happy, happy, fun, fun, but things are not good there. It turns out the safe driving program for the planet was altered by the central computer accidentally downloading a car chase moving marathon instead of the self-driving car program update. All the vehicles now just try to crash into each other and run down anyone who's outside. All the lizard-like aliens are now living underground. Rocket and brute must save the planet in order to get the fuel in. It's silly, crazy and outrageous and there's a how to draw a group section at the back of the boat. Oh, that's cool. You want to know? Yeah, I should practice that and see if I can do it. Bat, big speed Alexander Tam is in the third grade and he loves animals. On the autism spectrum, he dislikes loud noises and has his own way of organizing his quotes. One day his mom, the veterinarian, was late coming home because she had a baby skunk with her. His mother had been accidentally on the road and she was going to care for it until it was old enough to go to a wild animal rescue center. But Bat falls immediately with the kit and is determined to take such good care of him. He named him Thor that he will not need to go to the rescue center. It's a sensitive look at the ins and outs for a boy with autism and this includes good size types and occasional illustrious sheets. This is based on a true story. 1486 in England, further segments, Simmons finds the orphan boy, Lambert Seminole, working in a foul tavern and takes him away. Now he is to learn how to behave as a king for he is the lost prince destined to be King Edward VI of England. Lambert is befuddled and lost. He not only must learn new behaviors but also reading, writing, math and the history of his family. Short chapters and Lambert's growth from Tavern boy to King will catch the interest of readers of all these other mid-people novels. Hmm, it wasn't really the king. It wasn't. This is book two, a sequel to book scavenger. Emily and James are worried about Mr. Griswold. He is unusually quiet and reclusive. Their teacher, Mr. Griswold, is acting strangely. When they hear about an unbreakable clothe that has a curse attached to it, they both work hard to solve it. Good puzzles and challenges for readers with more books likely in the future. This is a full-color graphic novel. Jeremy is irritated by having a twin brother, Justin. Justin cleans his room, keeps things in order, does his homework. Jeremy waits for the last minute on everything. Then one morning Jeremy finds a secret decoder ring in the cereal box and everything changes. When the biggest bully in the school, fully smalls, who is smaller than Jeremy, tries to take the ring, he becomes a giant and suddenly Jeremy becomes a real cosmic commando, like the characters in their favorite video game.  When he can, his brother Justin, who has been reading the cosmic commander helpbook gives him suggestions on what to do. Jeremy continues to refuse to let Justin wear the ring, but Jeremy won't help with the final encounter. And there might be more books in this. To follow this one, I haven't heard for sure, but it seems less. It sounds like a good idea for a series, definitely, yes. This is the fourth book in the Carver Chronicles series, but they can be read separately. You don't have to read them in order. In this title, Calvin discovers all the neighbors are moving. He will misplank with their grandchildren when they visit, but worse is that the school bully, Harper, is moving in. Calvin comes up with a quick plan for avoiding being seen by Harper. That works until his dad invites Harper to join them at the movies. Over time, Calvin realizes that Harper is struggling and dealing with many things. He is in foster care and is hoping his mom can come and get him soon. To quote Calvin regarding Harper on page 106. Sometimes you just don't know what a person is all about at all. There's quite a bit packed in the small one. Effie Starzook has been sent to her husband Uncle's farm near a small town in Pennsylvania for the summer. Her parents are attempting to fly around the world in a solar airplane. Well, Effie is out of her city element and confused when the kid from the farm next door says they really shouldn't talk to her since she is a zooc and they are yoders. Now she is determined to figure out what is going on. No one will explain. There was definitely a strain between the two families. She visits the new bookstore in town and meeting his owner, Mr. Godfrey, the only black person in town. The local museum and the coffee shop, she visits them all hoping for information. And she asks a lot of questions with little results. Readers will be drawn into the mystery, enjoy the quirky characters and how people are connected in this offbeat story.  His mother left three years ago and Flip must go to live with his strict uncle on Boston, a remote island. He is at a loss until he rescues a horse in the storm and now he has new responsibilities and a friend. Loss, loneliness and bullying all come into the story, which ends on a hopeful note. This is the second book in the Flashback 4 series on their first mission, the Lincoln Project, the Flashback 4 failed to get the photo missing Ms. Andrikoff wanted. She tries to fire them, but they are certainly can handle the next assignment. She wants a photo of the Titanic sinking. I don't see any problem with that. Yeah, I know, these should be easy. Of course, they encounter problems and end up, fortunately they live, but they end up in 1912 New York having missed the rendezvous point they needed to return to our time. Readers will have to wait for the next book to find out if they are going to ever be able to return. The Titanic, less time travel, have great appeal to readers and this series is right on track. So I'm not sure when the next book comes out, I should look for that. Graphic novel and black, white and yellow tells of caravan member Strata for other older brother, Auburn and friend, Enby, who's the son of the caravan mayor for searching for technology to scavenge and save before the aliens get it all. They have it upon a find that has remained hidden for many years, lots of robots and one robotic horse. This appears to be a standalone title but you know what, things can change. It's a complete story and it removes it. I love this book, this is so fun. Matt is 11 and he is in danger of flunking Matt, so he must do an extra credit project to bring up his grade. He must start a business and keep track of profits and costs. So he decides to offer lessons in running side dogs since it was one of his favorite things to do and his family and he had been doing it for all his life. He doesn't remember learning, they've been doing it for so long. He is over enthusiastic with his only students first lesson but fortunately Tubbs comes back to the next lesson. Two students become friends. Can Matt find the needed third student and finish his school project? So the math is in there but not in your face. Well, they show charts and things that other students are doing for you but it's not in your face. And he's a little puzzle about some of what he's supposed to be doing. He doesn't quite understand it but he doesn't ask anybody which is pretty typical of kids. Kids are important to kids. But the sled dogs are so fun and he just loves working with them. This is the first book in a new series called Survive or Diaries. Travis is 11, his older sister, he and his older sister and parents are on a whale watching boat when they are hit by a whale wave. Travis and the captain's daughter, Maria Hernandez, who's 12, are the only ones not to make it to the lifeboats.  Marina is knowledgeable about survival but she was injured, maybe a broken wrist and she needs to warm up and she's not able to help. He was up to Travis to build a shelter, start a fire and buy water and he is not confident in his abilities. He spent the last couple of years trying video dates and he knows that. It includes tension for their survival and good survival information and notes at the back of the book. Book two is Avalanche. I just read that over the weekend and it's about a pair of brothers sister across country skiing where they get hit by an Avalanche and they have survival from the moment. And so that just came out yesterday. Wow, I had an advanced copy of this. Susie is 10 and her best friend Guy have been past friend since kindergarten. When a tragic accident leaves Susie without Guy she turns her focus to the leopard gecko and she shares a pet. Susie feels that gecko Matilda is as desolate as she is since Matilda preferred Guy's attention. When the stealing girl insider begins to convince Susie to take things from the pet store for Matilda we see the depth of her greed. Preparants are there for her but they are unsure how to help. Things come to a head when Susie injures Matilda during a bit of despair.  Very touching story. Oh, oh yeah, on a completely different notice dog man. It turns out George and Carol drew another comic before Captain Underpants. It was dog man. Now readers can enjoy this new series about Officer Knight and Greg the police dog who are involved in an explosion. The doctors have only one choice to put the dog's hand on the man's body. Hilarity ensues. Fans of Captain Underpants will find the same humor and lack of decor among these titles. It includes how to draw some of the characters at the back of the book.  So book two, dog man and leashed is the same in the same vein. P, the cat is a bad guy in both stories and there is more impertinence. The next title in the series is dog man and the tale of two kitties. I just read that the weekend before last. It's also hilarious and crazy. And the book four, dog man and cat kid came out December 26th, but I haven't seen who went. So anybody who's fans of Captain Underpants I think we'll just latch on to dog man and go with it. So they're crazy. I love, go ahead. I know what you wanna say before we continue. It just hit 11 o'clock. Oh, okay, sorry. No problem. If you may notice the show officially says goes from 10 to 11 a.m. But we will continue until Sally gets to her whole list. I know she's got a few more but toward a go. That's not a problem. We won't get cut off or anything from our session. So if you do have to leave because you only a lot of, you know you only schedule an hour for the show, don't worry about it. We're recording and you'll be able to watch the rest of the session when the recording is ready later this afternoon. Also the whole entire handout is on our website as well. So even though I see all the titles that are on there too. I just wanna let people know that even though it has 11, we're gonna keep going until we get through all the books. But you're welcome to leave it to me too. Thank you. I just talked too much. Yeah. This is using my notes. This is a full color graphic novel kind of a watercolor approach. Try as he might, the fox is not scary and he cannot catch a chicken. He gets beat up by one. The wolf gives him the idea to steal some eggs, catch them and then eat the chickens after they grow on it. But the chicks imprint on him and they are very cute. When the fox finally tells him that he is a fox, they think that means they're foxes too. Oh, they think of whole white things. So every funny and touching that wolf is getting pretty tired of waiting because he gets one of the chickens to eat himself. The fox is never ready. This was published in January of 2016 but it's a Nebraska author and publisher and it is the 2017 Nebraska Center for the Book Young Adult Novel Award winner. So it's on the list here. It's set in Nebraska in the 1960s. It's the first day of summer before sixth grade. Carly and her quarter horse captain are ready for some practice before beginning the barrel racing circuit in the area. Her best friend from just down the road, Luke, is also a competitor and they practice together. But now her parents have told her they are selling the farm and captain and moving to Lincoln to help her mother's elderly parents. Carly is determined to find a way to save captain but her ideas keep backfiring. When the boat comes in about once a year, the young child is in it, then the oldest child on the island must get in the boat and leave for who knows where. This year it is Jenny's turn to care for the youngster who they call S and teach her how they live on the island. But it is hard and she keeps thinking and worrying about where she will go when she leaves when the next boat comes. What would happen if she didn't get in the boat? And there is a sequel to this I haven't, I don't know that it's out yet. You are left wondering at the end of this book, just, it's gonna happen. Estefania or Steph is in seventh grade. Steph wants her overprotective parents to start to trust her a little more. It is embarrassing when her former friend Julia calls her taco queen and hints that Steph smells like tacos because of her father's food truck. She convinces her father to pick her up a few blocks away from the school at one of the sites where he sets up his truck. But once a new food codes are proposed, Steph wants to step in to defend their track Tia Purney. She loves art and sometimes it's easier to draw how she feels than to use words. Those of you who are fans of stick dog might wanna know that there is also stick cat. This is book two, cats in the city. This time the two friends must go out either this window on the other side of the building to rescue Piesel who has fallen into a big bat, bagel dough and can't get out. I don't wanna talk about a bagel dough. But yes, they are in second cats and they will do what they can to help her. This is book three in the Hilo series. This is a full color graphic novel. Hilo was a robot from another dimension and he is working to save our world with the help of his friends, humans, DJ and Gina along with some other worldly beings. They less stop razor work who is bent on ruling the universe. humorous and valiant, bright colors and cartoon-like illustrations will draw in readers. Book four is out in spring of 2018. This one, the first two books ended on a cliffhanger. This one felt like an ending, but there's another book coming. So I don't know if it's enough yet. Nonfiction for grades two to five or so. 20 poems, each celebrating the style and content of a well-known poet starting with Bosho born in 1644 to Maya Hachelou and current poets. Colorful eye-catching illustrations add to the celebration. A couple of paragraphs about each of the selected poets is included at the back of the book. And I think that's a pretty amazing effort to write in the style of the poet that they're honored and blue. I can't write poetry at all because I closed the red balance of blues. So to kind of like that. No, it's not like a cover band of music because they're not covered. Isn't that great? That's just still, yeah. Yeah, kind of a tribute style. Yeah, tribute. That's better to be able to do that. It's amazing. It's beautiful. This is about Chris Apert and Martina Navratilova. It's a brief biography of them both. It starts with Chris Apert and her dominance in tennis and the brief biography also of Martina Navratilova. Including the fact that the Cold War was going strong while they were playing tennis. The author focuses on Martina's efforts to improve her play and how she finally began to beat Chris. There's no notable that with all the sports and history to choose from. The author believes this rivalry was the greatest. Of course, it did last a number of years. It includes a list of dates at the back and what they were each doing at that time. I love this book. Includes 23 lesser known animals to the reader. The author states that most animal books include the same culprits each time, elephants, tigers. It is time for kids to read about the numbat, the dagger tooth flower bat, as well as the southern rifle dolphin. Each two page spread includes some known facts, a large illustration and a quirky fact about them. It's fascinating. Oh, I bought this book because I just had it. So I can talk about it. It's beautiful. The author is a wildlife photographer and she was spending a few months in Kenya in a tent camp when a ranger came by and asked her to raise a wild serval kitten who had been separated from his parents. This is the photo essay of Susie and Motel's story. Motel is returned to the wild as promised, but not before he steals Susie's and the reader's hearts. Oh, great pictures. The one with him in his first mouth. Recognized as the first new carnivore found in the Western Hemisphere in 35 years, the author tells of what all was involved in realizing there was a separate species and the steps needed to verify its existence. And it was pretty amazing what all they had to do to make it and put it in the record. To make it like really verified, confirm that it was really a new and close station. Species. Blingito. Sergeant Reckless. I showed this book to my husband. He bought one for his friend for his Christmas present. The front end papers carry headlines about the outbreak of war in Korea.  They had a new cannon at the top of the hill which they had named Reckless Rifle. The shells were heavy and they were exhausted from carrying them up the hill. Maybe the little mare could do it. After some training, rewarding her with a apple, some chocolate, a Coca-Cola, she was ready to go. They named her Private Reckless and she worked hard for them. She also had reports that children will love to learn about. The author does a great job of giving a sense of war without being too frightening. One of the things that she ended up doing was she would wake up the cook in the morning. When she had eggs and coffee every morning. She'd wake up the cook when she thought it was time for them to go fix breakfast. Just amazing things like that. Just what the title says, this is divided into categories and there are three stories told each time. Category of plants or animals that fit that category and two are true and one is not. And the two that are true are pretty amazing. It's hard to decide sometimes. My only disappointment was that one category used the famous tree octopus as its line. I thought that was rather well known but maybe I'm wrong. Just because we're in the library and information field but it seemed like a pretty long list. Have you heard of the tree octopus? Yes. I thought so. It's like a whole thing. If you google through it, you'll find there's been a whole mythology to create about this creature that does not actually exist. Yes, but it's just been really, really developed. It's different things about it. And it's kind of a joke. It just started as an example for students to understand that just because you read it on the internet doesn't mean it's true. Right. You have to verify it. But that's okay. The rest of the book is astounding. While written and illustrated, this is the story of the extinction of a sea bird. First, giving basic information on how the great octopus lives were like, the author concludes with the bird's extinction. July of 1844, the last live great octopus seen and killed. So thank you. Now we're down. There's a list of, what am I trying to say? There's a list of other series books second, third, fourth, fifth, on your list. And she look at it. I don't have words on that part. But then if you have books one, two, three and you want even no book formats out and I can send you a series and look at that. No, that's just the list. So let's see. Yeah. So if you want to, you can come back over to the website there. We've got your handouts here. It's right at the bottom. There we go. So you sit on the blurbs. You can open that if you want you to show. Yeah. So this is what Sally's using to do her session today. Yeah. So I'm going to get through the bottom. All the way to the right. And just so you shouldn't. Okay, hang on. Yeah, we're going to zoom through here. Or maybe. So you see these, this is basically what I was reading over. I did edit some things. So we had some conversations and that's all right. So there's a link to the page about the award that I talked about. And I did look up while you were doing this. I can, about the photo arc ones. Yeah. It was actually just this past summer, April through September. The National Geographic Society which that photo arc book by Jill Sartori was about. They put them into various zoos across the country. They had these big displays. So you can look up photo arc through zoos and you can see it's a, it was a traveling exhibition at zoos across the country. And there are these big displays like, you know, six, seven feet tall with his photos and little blurbs about them. And for anyone local, I saw the result of looking up that many of the animals were from our zoos here. Joel is Nebraska centered from the Lincoln Children's Zoo. And actually the pictures are some of them in this book. That's amazing. So it's something over this past summer. So unfortunately, if you didn't see it, I don't know what the plan is for the future. But you can see, if you didn't see it, that's the thing. If you didn't see it at the zoo, get the book. Yes. And you can see them in there. Okay. So I told you when I'm true that on the children's list, I did put in my birds. I just have a new titles in popular series list here. And I did put them in my birds on the team list where we have new titles in popular series where we just listed them again to include our words there. So one has it, one doesn't. Life's like that. So, maybe you want to, All right. All right. So nobody had any comments throughout the show. That's fine. If you do have any other titles that you wanted to let Sally know about it, you can type them into the questions. Anyone who's still here, most people are actually still here. Okay, awesome. Or you can reach out to her here at the library commission. There's other books that you know that came out that you might want her to be aware of. I love to hear from you. That's good. And as you said, there's some books that you haven't gotten to yet. New things coming out. Sometimes Sally, you've mentioned some of you come across the second or third book in a series and that realizing that it existed before, there's just too many, too many books that should be published. And that's a good thing because selection and choice is wonderful. You know your community and the children in your community better than I do. So, you know what's going to be popular. Whether it's going to be the bad guys or dogmen or the gentle stories. Right. I think there's a lot of different options in this list. And in the team one that you did earlier last month, there was a huge range of books coming out, which is great. All right, so that will wrap it up for today's talk about books. That will be posted onto our website. And if you go, let's see, we'll do it up here. If you Google, Encompass Live, notice this is on just regular search. You can't get into it from our submission website, of course. So far, Encompass Live is the only thing we call that on the internet. And we keep saying that until it's not true. As you can find our website, you can also, if you take Encompass Live, if you're on the commission site, you'll get to it from there as well. So this is our webpage. And the archivers, this today's show is being recorded. We'll have a link to the presentation slides with the book covers and to the handouts. And it'll be here on our archives, which are listed underneath our upcoming shows. As you can see here, just two shows ago was the team session December 20th. But children's won't be at the top of the list here. So you'll have the same kind of thing here. We had a link to recording, her slides and the handouts page for the team. One, so if you're looking for the best new book, team books 2017, there's your recording for that. We'll have to add the other one of the verbs to that. Well, this I just looked at the handout page. Oh, okay, perfect. So this goes right to the page with all of them up there. Yeah, that's great. And we'll add it to the top of this list. Later this afternoon, I'll say it has to get processed through YouTube in our process this year. We'll be the new one for today's show. Everyone who attended live today or registered for today's show will be sent an email directly to you, letting you know when the recording is available. So that will be for today's show. I'll be doing this next week, but our topic is more books. Yay. Maybe some children's depends on what you read. Friday reads 2017, a year interview. Many people have joined into this activity. Friday reads where every Friday you post either to your Twitter feed maybe or to Facebook or something. Here's something I'm reading. You can look at the hashtag Friday reads here's library commission three and a half years ago our previous continuing education coordinator, Laura Johnson started a program of having Nebraska library commission staff write up reviews of books that they've been reading or that they liked. And it didn't have to be new things necessarily. You will find a mixture of things. You're old, new. There's the only criteria to this is you work here and read something. There you go. So every Friday we've been doing this for three and a half years. And next week we're gonna have some of our commission staff joining us. Sally will be one of them again to talk about the books that they've viewed specifically in most recent years, 2017 looking at the last year. This is a Amy Owen is the first librarian here staff person here at the commission who runs our coordinates our Friday reads programs gets us along the schedule and you put together this picture of the screen of the covers of all the different books. If you can read that you can see the kind of thing you might be talking about. So we're gonna chat about that next week here in End Compass Live. So please do a register for that one in any of our other upcoming shows. I'm working on getting some other ones confirmed for the other January dates. So keep your eyes open for when those are filled in here and February. I've got some people looking at February dates too. So we're gonna get those filled in. We already people asking about what Wednesdays they can do for February for certain topics. So keep your eyes on the page and our different mailing lists or email lists. End Compass Live is also on Facebook. This is where we'll also post things. So if you are a big Facebook user, give us a like over there. You will get a notice. Here's a notice about logging in for today's End Compass live show as we post about that. And we'll get rid of that. And when our recordings are available. So if you are being on Facebook, give us a like and you'll be notified of what things we are doing over there. Other than that, that wraps up for today's show. People saying some thank yous. Thank you everyone for attending this morning. I thank you Sally for being here for the beginning of our 2018 season. Call it End Compass Live, our 10th year. And keep your eyes on what we have to have for you in the next 20 months. Thank you very much. Bye bye, thank you, bye.


We are deeply honored today here at Sligo Church to have the President of Zambia worshiping with us. President Haqqindah Hitchelayma, we are deeply, deeply honored to have you with us. We have members from our Zambian Church in Zambia that are joining us online today. We welcome you as you are choosing to worship with us today. We also have members of our congregation who are from Zambia and so at this time I would like to invite our congregation, our members, who are from Zambia so the President can see his fellow countrymen and countrymen. If you could please stand. One of the beautiful things about our church is that we are a global community. We are a global family. So Mr. President, you have from us our support and our prayers as you lead your country. We are so delighted to have you. We understand that you recently became a master guide. So from our Pathfinder Club we have a very special gift that special pins that our club have made for you. At this time I invite you to come to address our congregation. Good morning church. Thank you very much. The call is good and all the time. Thank you. We're very delighted to worship with you today at Sligo SdhH. We are happy mainly because we are amongst family members worshipping our gods and we thought it's important that while we're in this area we spend time with yourselves in this church. So we're very grateful to the leadership of this church for allowing us to worship with you. We will not say much but we just want to share with you a little music. Thank you. Deeply honored and we want to tell you next time you come the rest of us are going to know this song. Right church family and you are always welcome to worship here and we again thank the entire delegation and the president for being here with us today.