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Happy Thanksgiving!
From Literacious (and Sandra Boynton!)
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Adorable Children's Lit Posters
I know how I want to wallpaper my house now… with these adorable children’s literature posters from Bookroo! Technically, Bookroo is a subscription service for children’s books, but I am drawn to these simplified book posters and every time they release a new set, I fall in love all over…
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Resource for Parents, Teachers, & Librarians: All the Wonders
From the All The Wonders’s website, “All The Wonders is a home for readers to discover new books and to experience the stories they love in wondrous ways. It is an entertainment channel, a variety show, and a modern library all wrapped up into one digital home.” If you haven’t checked…
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National Book Award Finalists
The National Book Award Finalists have been announced this week and the Young People’s Literature list has a number of great books. I personally haven’t gotten a chance to read them all, but I have read Benjamin Ali’s The Truth About Jellyfish and Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona. Which I think is a…
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Sunday Storytime Challenge #4
I got a chance to spend last week at two separate conferences which means I spent a lot of time sharing ideas with fellow youth services librarians. I spent Sunday – Wednesday at our state conference – PaLA. I got the chance to present an elementary school age program that…
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Why I Attend Conferences
I love to learn. That’s the simple answer, I love learning about what other librarians are doing in programming, about new books, and new library trends. The deeper answer is that I enjoy being around people that have the same passion I do. Librarians, and I think, specifically children’s librarians…
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Sunday Storytime Challenge #2
I’ve done a couple of wordless picture books in my storytime so to varying degrees of success. I think by far my most effective wordless picture book in storytime was Where’s Walrus? by Stephen Savage. The kids adore helping me and the zookeeper find the escaped walrus from the…
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Skype Author Visit
It’s been an eventful week already! We have a pretty large grant due on Friday, we had our first middle school program of the school year on Monday night, I spent yesterday and this morning at Penn State for a committee meeting, (quickly) drove back to the library for a…
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Running and Reading, Not So Very Different
I’ll be the first to confess that I’m not a runner. I used to say that I only ran when something was chasing me, but I’ve learned over the years that running is a really great workout and it’s one of the ways that I set fitness goals for myself.…
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Middle School Open House
Last night, I took my cart of materials and set up a table at the middle school with the school librarian for Open House. We have four elementary school, a middle school and high school and a K-8 Catholic school in our service area and are always looking for ways…