About the Author:
Karen Duncan made backyard bird houses and homemade ice cream when she was growing up in Tasmania. A former school teacher and athletic director at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Karen follows education issues closely as the wife of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. She lives in Virginia with her husband and two children, a cat, and lots of sports equipment. Kate Hannigan Issa helped sew groovy blue-jeans bags with her mom when she was growing up in Oklahoma. A professional editor and writer, Kate works on children's fiction and nonfiction when she isn't holding lemonade stands with her three children and husband in Chicago. Anthony LeTourneau drew every moment possible growing up. Even now he draws or paints every day and spends his free time learning and reading about being creative. Anthony (or as his friends call him, Tony) was raised in the suburbs of St. Paul, Minnesota, and later moved with his wife and three boys to the Minnesota north woods, where he resides today.
From School Library Journal:
Gr 3-6-For each month of the year, Duncan and Issa suggest a party with a service theme. For example, they suggest making Valentines for children at a local hospital in February, cleaning up a park for Earth Day in April, or making jack-o-lanterns for a nursing home in October. The ideas are realistic, age appropriate, and thoughtful. The authors have done a good job mixing fun with function. Some of the activities are geared for a large group, like a school class, while others would work with a Cub Scout troop or a birthday party. Almost all the projects require an adult leader to contact and coordinate with a community organization like a nursing home or food bank. Each plan contains two ideas, a treat recipe, a craft, and information about a national charity related to the theme. The book is illustrated with child-friendly color cartoons featuring youngsters doing good deeds. The Kid's Guide to Service Projects (Free Spirit Publishing, 1995) has more service ideas, but they are not organized in a party-plan format. This is a great resource for any school or public library.-Donna Cardon, Provo City Library, UT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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