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Virtual Author Visit with Saadia Faruqi
Last night our library hosted a virtual author visit on Zoom with Saadia Faruqi! Saadia is the author of the easy reader series, Yasmin, about a second grade Pakistani-American girl living her best life! She’s also the co-author of the upcoming novel A Place At the Table with Laura Shovan being published on…
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4th of July Books & Experiments
Happy 4th of July to all of my American readers! I’m loving this long weekend, it’s nice to have a little bit of a break from the crazy day-to-day. Today I’m sharing just a few 4th of July Books & Experiments that you can read and do with your family.…
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Storytime Theme: Food
It’s been radio silence on my blog for the past few days! We had a massive storm blow through southeastern Pennsylvania on Wednesday around lunchtime. We were one of the over 1 million people who lost power and we still haven’t gotten it back. We tried to get our generator…
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Kidlit Rally for Black Lives
Kwame Alexander has organized a Kidlit Rally for Black Lives hosted by The Brown Bookshelf. As if I could love him anymore? Organized by Black authors and illustrators, the Brown Bookshelf was “designed to push awareness of the myriad Black voices writing for young readers.” They have some amazing book…
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Storytime Theme: Perspective
Perspective may not be an easy concept to teach toddlers and preschoolers, but what better audience? Toddlers and preschoolers have their own unique perspective based on where they are developmentally, they’re view of the world from how tall they are, it’s all perspective. So when I was having trouble gaining…
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Virtual Programming: Book Talks
While we’re working from home, my children’s librarian and I have been sharing book talks for elementary and middle grade readers. This is an great program on a couple of fronts: we don’t have to worry about copyright issues it’s easy to do, especially if you’re a big reader if…
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Storytime Theme: Water
I wanted to do a little something unexpected, so I decided to go with a water theme for storytime! It’s just getting warm enough to be playing with water outside and I loved these stories, so I wanted to share. My first book, All the Water in the World is…
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Storytime Theme: Bears
This was such a fun story! I taught the kids how to say “more” in sign language which was perfect for Bear Wants More. Bear Came Along is such a fun story to read aloud and share. And finally, Orange, Pear, Apple, Bear is a fun tongue twister that kids…
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Storytime Theme: Things That Go!
Transportation books are some of the most popular storytimes! Little ones (especially boys) love anything with wheels! My nephew is one such kid, his specialty is construction vehicles and tractors. Today’s storytime theme: things that go include books about trains, cars, taxis, and a host of other transportation vehicles in…
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Storytime Theme: Sheep
Amidst all the craziness of trying to run a library without being in a physical building, with staff working from home with varying degrees of technology available, I’ve gotten the chance to do more digital storytime for our library’s Facebook page. Due to copyright law and whether or not reading…
