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InsideOut Back-to-School Wish List
Dear friends,
As you celebrate your holiday traditions this season, we hope you will consider making a gift to InsideOut. Your purchases will allow us to fill our student writing centers and classrooms with books that spark the imaginations of young people as they put pens to paper and find the magic in their own voice.
To engage our students, (many of whom do not have art classes or art teachers in their school) we bring artistic, hands-on projects to spark students' creativity and writing. Student collages, paintings, pencil drawings, photographs and ceramic sculptures have been featured in our publications alongside the poems these works of art have inspired.
As you do your own holiday shopping, consider making an extra purchase of writing materials or art supplies for students in the InsideOut program. All items will be used directly with the students as they explore the power and beauty of language all year long.
Thank you from all of us on behalf of the children served.
Supplies, Supplies, Supplies
Notebooks
Pocket folders
Disposable cameras
Watercolor sets
Washable markers
Colored pencils
Colored chalk
Glue sticks
Pocket thesauruses and dictionaries
Manila drawing pads, large
Art postcards (large variety of styles)
Construction paper
Magazines (for collages)
Child-size scissors
A Few Games Too
Balderdash
Taboo
Apples to Apples
Scategories
Legos for use in Lego poetry
From Here to There
DOT bus cards
If you wish to make a donation to be used for the purchase of any of these items, please let us know. Gift cards from establishments that sell children and young adult books or supplies on our list are welcome as well.
Some local independent bookstores that specialize in children’s and young adult books that we recommend are:
Ladels Books, 1413 Brooklyn, (in Corktown) Detroit (313) 963-8550
The Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield Rd., Oak Park, (248) 968-1190
For Top Ten lists of Young Adult Books for teens as well as lists of Caldecott Medal award-winning picture books, Newbery Awardees for outstanding fiction for young people, and winners of the Coretta Scott King Book Award, please visit and search the website of the American Library Association.
www.ala.org.
For excellent magazines for children consider a subscription to any of the titles listed under
www.CricketMag.com or
www.stonesoup.com which publishes children under the age of thirteen.
We thank you for your support of InsideOut!
Created Dec. 3, 2008 Article #1629 :: Last Update: Dec. 14, 2009
