About Cream of the Crop
Each year publishing houses send thousands
of review copies of new children's and young
adult books to the Maine Examination Collection
c/o the Southern Maine Library District. The
books are reviewed at SMLD monthly book review
meetings by local librarians. A "Cream
of the Crop" Collection of the best titles
published in the previous year is prepared
for the Maine Regional Library System's Reading
Round-Up Conference in April. The "Cream
of the Crop" Collection contains about
120 books from preschool to high school age
levels.
After Reading Round-Up, the collection travels
to libraries throughout the state for a year.
It is called the Traveling Cream of
the Crop. At the end of the
year the collection is disbursed and a new
one is formed.
Cream of the Crop Committee:
- Mary Lou Boucouvalas, Director, Graves Memorial Library, Kennebunkport
- Louise Capizzo, Children's
Librarian, Falmouth Memorial Library
- Brooke Faulkner, YA Librarian, McArthur Public Library, Biddeford
- Kathy George, Children's
Librarian, Gray Public Library
- Leslie Rounds, Director, Dyer Library, Saco
- Marilyn Taylor, Children's
Services Assistant, Scarborough Pubic Library
