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Write & Illustrate Your Own Book Contest
It’s our 39th annual Write & Illustrate Your Own Book Contest. This contest was started by a previous children’s librarian who worked in our library for over 30 years. Each year, children submit there books to be judged in each grade level by our elite panel of judges from the…
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Polar Express Party
Last night we hosted a Polar Express party for children in Kindergarten and 1st grade. For this age group, I try to keep programs about 45 minutes long, because at this age (after a long school day) I don’t want to keep them up too late and our evening programs…
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Drivin’ In My Car
Although it’s one of my favorite songs for story time, it’s also what I’ll be doing for the majority of the day today. On Monday, I drove out to my parent’s house (to beat that crazy storm) and now I sit in the car for the next 8+hours to reach…
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Elephant & Piggie Party
Last night 15 kindergarten and first graders had a wonderful time celebrating the hilarious Elephant & Piggie characters created by children’s author, Mo Willems. It was interesting to see that all but two of huge kids were boys and boy were they excited about the party! I first started the…
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Storytime Theme: Imagination Station
This is the second Saturday storytime I’ve tried this fall and it’s great to see some regular faces, but also some new faces who can’t come in during the week! I had about 20 kids show up which worked really well and before we began I explained to parents the…
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Scouts and Libraries
I’m not exactly sure what happened, but we had three different scout troops visit the library this weekend and I must say – we should be reaching out to these groups more often! On Monday, a group of 2nd grade Brownies came in, on Thursday – a group of 4th…
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National Origami Day
Yesterday was National Origami Day and we were able to provide a program for 20 children in grades 2 – 4 for an hour in the evening. I first shared the story, The Origami Master written by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer and illustrated by Aki Sogabe. It’s a relatively short story about…
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Enchanted Library 2013
Rub-a-Dub, Dub Our 5th Annual Enchanted Library program took place on Friday, and I’m happy to report that everything went very well! A quick overview of the program for those who haven’t read previous blog posts about it… The Enchanted Library is a two-fold program. The first is a program…
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Story Time Theme: Mo Willems
This week was probably one of my favorites – Mo Willems Week for story time! Willems is an amazing author/illustrator in the children’s literature world and his books are geared perfectly to my crowd of 2 – 3.5 year olds. We shared Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus with…
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Story Time Theme – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
This week’s story time author/illustrator was Amy Krouse Rosenthal – another favorite author of mine whose books are funny, poignant, and can help children learn valuable life lessons. Again, I think these books may have faired better with a little older audience (I’m thinking preschool age), but they are still…
