As for the Topic of the Day...
Nothing in particular comes to mind, but...
When I was in grade school, we had "Library Class". Once a week, we would head down to the school's library, and we would learn about the library. Dewey Decimal system, Newberry and Caldecott winners, new acquisitions, etc. Sometimes the class would just consist of watching a slide show or film of a particular book. In any case...
For a couple of weeks, we spent time re-jacketing some of the books. Most of the time, that just consisted of re-wrapping the dust jackets in that plastic overwrap - the name of which escapes me now. -I'm sure BK and DRs George and Ginny know the correct name. However, sometimes we had to reconstruct the whole dust jacket which meant we had to re-draw the dust jacket art. Sometimes we used an overhead projector to "trace" the artwork out, othertimes we just traced the artwork. And sometimes we just came up with new artwork altogether. It was a very educational and creative project.
*One of these days I would like to head back to the St. Thomas More Elementary School library and see how many of those dust-jackets and books are still there.
