SPREADING THE BOOK GOSPEL AUTHORS POP IN TO READ TO CALAHAN STUDENTS.Byline: Mark Kellam Valley News Writer Calahan Street Elementary in Northridge opened its remodeled library recently with a weeklong celebration that featured a different author each day reading selections from their books. One of the authors was John Hicks
Sir John Richard Hicks (April 8, 1904 – May 20, 1989) was one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. , a firefighter/paramedic with the L.A. Fire Department who has written three children's books and one book for adults. His children's books are ``My Buddypack,'' ``Divided World'' and ``The Ghost of Fire Company 18.'' ``My Buddypack'' tells of a boy and his friends who find a backpack and its contents that thrust them into a world of high intrigue. ``Divided World'' is a futuristic fu·tur·is·tic adj. 1. Of or relating to the future. 2. a. Of, characterized by, or expressing a vision of the future: futuristic decor. b. tale about a world torn apart. ``The Ghost of Fire Station 18'' is about a young female firefighter who deals with a ghost in a fire station. The book for adults is called ``The First Responders' Handbook of Humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was ,'' which includes anecdotes about how to deal with stress from emergency personnel across the country. Hicks Hicks , Edward 1780-1849. American painter of primitive works, notably The Peaceable Kingdom, of which nearly 100 versions exist. said reading changed his life and it can change the students' lives, too. ``Being a good reader can make you a good writer,'' he said. ``I want to encourage all of you to read, but even if it's just one of you, that would be great.'' But Hicks said he wasn't always a faithful reader. ``In elementary school elementary school: see school. , I was a poor student. It wasn't until high school that I started reading and a whole new world opened up to me,'' he said. Jean Brown, superintendent of District 1 of Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. , was visiting Calahan Elementary on March 22 - the day Hicks was the featured author. She spoke to the students before Hicks read from ``Divided World.'' She said she was happy to be there with them as they celebrated their remodeled library and told them that being a good reader as a student is a foundation to being a productive, successful adult. The library remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling project began last October. School librarian Teresa Roman kept books available to students by using a mobile library. Every day, she would load a variety of books into crates Crates (krā`tēz), fl. 449 B.C., Athenian comic dramatist. He is said to have introduced into comedy themes other than those of personal satire, and he was one of the first to show the comic possibilities of the drunkard. turned on their sides and place them on a cart. She then pushed the cart from classroom to classroom, allowing students to check out their favorite titles. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: John Hicks, a firefighter/paramedic with the L.A. Fire Department, reads a selection from one of his children's books to students in the newly remodeled library at Calahan Street Elementary School in Northridge. Mark Kellam/Valley News |
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