Burbank Kids Have Some Great Green Ideas!

We are growing “Truffula Trees” in the Burbank Children’s Libraries. (Truffula Trees are whimsical and colorful trees found in the book The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.) Throughout the time of Burbank Reads, we are asking children for their suggestions on how we can help the environment. Each child receives a leaf to write down his or her idea, then we combine the leaves to make beautiful trees. Here are some ideas so far (#5 is a kid favorite that causes many giggles)…

1. You can take a bike to school or walk.
2. Read books instead of television because T.V. wastes energy.
3. I turn off the tap when I brush my teeth.
4. Don’t trash Burbank.
5. Don’t flush the toilet.

It’s not too late to contribute ideas! Bring your kids to the library, and have them participate in this fun project. You can also read The Lorax while you’re here.

Lastly, we will be showing the movie version of The Lorax at our Sustainability Showcase this Saturday at BV. There will be viewings at 1, 2, and 3 pm. The movie runs 30 minutes. There will also be free popcorn and prizes for kids.

From Jennifer

"Jack London, Photographer" - Lecture by Sara S. "Sue" Hodson.

Thursday, October 30 -- 7 PM

Please join us for “Jack London, Photographer,” a lecture by Sara S. “Sue” Hodson.

Sue Hodson, curator of literary manuscripts for The Huntington, will present an illustrated lecture. Jack London was an accomplished photographer and photojournalist who documented the Russo-Japanese War, the South Pacific during his year-long cruise of the Snark, the poverty in the east end of London, England, and the Mexican Revolution. With two co-editors, Hodson is working on the first-ever book focusing on London as a photographer, due out in 2010 from the University of Georgia Press.

Buena Vista Branch Library
300 N. Buena Vista St.
818.238.5620

Call of the Wild - 3D Adaptation

A 3D adaptation of The Big Read's 'Call of the Wild' will premiere @ 3DX in Singapore: Nov 19-23, 2008.

Independent Filmmaker Richard Gabai makes his first foray into 3D with this family friendly modern day adaptation of Jack London’s Classic “Call of the Wild” starring Christopher Lloyd, Jaleel White, Ariel Gade, Wes Studi, Aimee Teegarden, Devon

Graye, Timothy Bottoms, and Veronica Cartwright.

When nine year old city girl Ryan Hale visits her Grandpa in a small Montana town, where they still enjoy dogsledding, she doesn’t like it too much - “crazy”people, and no malls.

But all that changes when she happens upon a wounded wild dog that she nurses back to health. She wants to bring “Buck” back home to the city –but he just might hear the “Call of the Wild.”

Call of the Wild': Filming begins in Montana on modern adaptation of classic story - Missoulian: 2.13.08 by Kim Briggeman

LINCOLN - Buck is back on the trail - or at least his progeny is.

And Christopher Lloyd is back in Montana, where shooting opened Sunday in Lincoln on a 3-D family drama, “Call of the Wild."

Lloyd, of “Back to the Future” fame and once a part-time resident of the Bitterroot Valley, plays a down-to-earth grandpa in the film, which is a modern-day adaptation of Jack London's classic short novel.

It's set mostly in the Yukon in the late 1800s.

“If you're familiar with the original text, at the end of the ‘Call of the Wild' when Buck becomes leader of the pack, he had many descendants,” director Richard Gabai of California said Sunday at the starting line of the 2008 Race to the Sky sled dog race.

Michael Oakes as Jack London

Monday, September 29 -- 7 PM

Acclaimed actor Michael Oakes will create a powerful portrayal of author/adventurer Jack London.

For more details please visit[http://www.liveoakes.com/index_files/COW.htm]

Buena Vista Branch Library
300 N. Buena Vista St.
818.238.5620

Call of the Wild - Big Read @ Burbank

Join Burbank Public Library and the Huntington Library and read Call of the Wild by Jack London.

You can read online @ Project Gutenberg or @ Project Literature which also has embedded audio if you prefer to listen to it.

some Jack London sites to visit:

The Jack London Collection @ Sonoma State University Library

Jack London Book Collection @ Utah State University
~ Photos of his first edition books

Jack London State Historic Park

The Huntingon Library's Jack London Archive
~ largest London collection in the world

The World of Jack London on the net

or watch John Raskin talk about his book,

The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution @

~ BookTV - CSPAN2
~ FORA TV

Burbank Public Library joins THE BIG READ!!!!

The Burbank Public Library
in partnership with
The Huntington Library
invites you to celebrate
THE BIG READ...
September 27 -- November 2, 2008

The BIG READ is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and bring the transformative power of literature into the lives of its citizens.

The Big Read brings together partners across the country to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment.

The Huntington Library was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to host a Big Read celebration of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild. This program is all about reaching out to nonreaders and readers at
risk. It represents a commitment to promote the sheer enjoyment of reading through the writing of an author like Jack London.

As was true during his lifetime, Jack London continues to be an extraordinarily charismatic figure who readily draws readers into his robust tales of adventure. He was himself an
adventurer, who followed his own call of the wild to the Alaskan Klondike, to the South Pacific on a ship he built, and to many parts of the world as a journalist and war correspondent. He read
voraciously and was always convinced that he could learn to do anything, if he could read about it in a book.

The Huntington has enlisted partners whose mandate includes working with, and reaching out to, lapsed or reluctant readers. Partners include libraries, public schools, and community organizations, several of which will serve as venues for the Big Read events. They represent 10 cities in the area: Alhambra, Arcadia, Burbank, Pasadena, Pico Rivera, Montebello, San Diego, San Marino, Sierra Madre, and South Pasadena.

For a complete list of all the Big Read events, go to The Huntington’s website at www.huntington.org/thebigread/events.htm.

For a complete list of all Burbank Public Library Big Read events, go to http://www.burbank.lib.ca.us/Pict/PDF/BigRead08.pdf