ICfL’s Read to Me team has been working on plans for this year’s fall youth services workshop. The theme is “Getting Kids Reading” and the age range is K- 8^th.  Two national speakers, Kathleen Baxter and Gary Johnston, will be joining us for a day filled with great practical ideas and a chance to network with school and public librarians in your area.

Sessions will start at 8:30 a.m. with registration and book browsing, a working lunch will be provided, and the workshops will end at 4 p.m. with book door prize drawings. 

• October 24 at the Best Western Coeur d’Alene Inn, 506 Appleway, Coeur d'Alene. Register at http://fallyouthservicescoeurdalene.eventbrite.com.   

• October 26 Best Western Plus, Vista Inn at the Airport, 2645 Airport Way, Boise. Register at http://youthserviceboise.eventbrite.com.

• October 28 at the Clarion Inn, 1399 Bench Road, Pocatello. Register at http://fallyouthservicespocatello.eventbrite.com/ .  

Agenda: 
8:30 a.m. --- Registration and book browsing
9 a.m. ---  Welcome & introductions
9:15 a.m. ---  Gary Johnston on getting kids reading
10:30 a.m. ---  Break
10:45 a.m.  ---  Idaho Family Reading Week and ICFL Programs
Noon – working lunch, provided by ICfL
12:45 p.m.  ---  Kathleen Baxter on nonfiction that kids will love
3:45 p.m.  ---  Door prizes and evaluations
4 p.m.  ---  End

Featuring nationally-known presenters Kathleen Baxter and Gary Johnston:

Kathleen Baxter is a teacher and librarian who spent more years than she cares to remember as head of children’s services in the Anoka County Library in suburban Minneapolis. She is now a children’s literature consultant who does many workshops every year at school and library conferences all over the U.S.A. She has written six books Gotcha: Non-Fiction Booktalks to Get Kids Excited about Reading, Gotcha Again, Gotcha Covered, Gotcha Good, Gotcha for Guys, Gotcha for Guys II, and the upcoming Get Those Guys Reading. She has written a column on nonfiction booktalking for School Library Journal since 1996 and was a member of the 2001 Newbery Committee. Kathleen will be talking to Idaho library staff about great new nonfiction titles and ways to get kids excited about reading through booktalks.

Gary Johnston is a retired educator from Colorado. He has spent thirty years learning how to take the hassle out of getting kids to read. “With my tricks and your love we’ll get the children in your life reading.” Gary presented at the Idaho Library Association Conference in Post Falls and we’ve invited him back to Idaho to reach more people with this important message.

For more information about the workshops, please contact Stephanie Bailey-White at the Idaho Commission for Libraries, 1-800-458-3271 or email stephanie.bailey-white@libraries.idaho.gov