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Anna Dewdney Read Together Award
An amazing award is being created by Penguin Young Readers, Children’s Book Council, and Every Child a Reader to remember acclaimed children’s author/illustrator Anna Dewdney who passed away in September from cancer. The Anna Dewdney Read Together Award “will be given annually to a picture book, published in the U.S. during…
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It's That Time of Year…
The “best of the best” lists are coming out in droves (as usual). These lists usually have many of the same suspects on them with a little variation and that is what I like. Making sure I get my hands on all the heavy hitters of the year. Especially this…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I'm Looking Forward To For the First Half of 2017
I get so excited looking at the new books being released over the next few months! Now, to just get my hands on a couple ASAP! Booklist Scar Island by Dan Gemeinhart The Warden’s Daughter by Jerry Spinelli Short by Holly Goldberg Sloan NewsPrints by Ru Xu A Rambler Steals…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 12/12/16
I am so proud of myself – I actually got some serious reading done this week! I read The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly, which was awesome. Check out my review here! And then I started an adult novel – I know! I actually voluntarily picked up an adult…
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Jbrary – A Resource You Don't Want To Miss
If you’re a storytime librarian, a preK teacher, mom, dad, aunt, uncle, grandparent, sibling, etc., you have to take some time to explore Jbrary’s website. Jbrary is the brain child of two children’s librarians in Vancouver, British Columbia and it’s an absolutely amazing resource filled with books, songs, fingerplays, rhymes…
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Book Review: The Land of Forgotten Girls
I’ve been in a bit of a book slump for the past few months. A lot of it has to do with a new position at work sucking up all my time and brain power. That being said, I actually physically and mentally feel different if I’m not reading enough…
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Director's Thoughts 12/7/16
I’ve been a library director for a total of almost 4 months! There are days when I can tell you I have no idea what I’ve done, but I’m constantly busy and for the most part loving my new role. Our previous director, (I’ve been working for this library for…
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Top Ten Tuesday: New-To-Me Authors I Read For the First Time in 2016
Some of these authors are new to me because they’re new to the publishing world (and I can’t to read more!) Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 12/5/16
After posting every day for Picture Book Month, I now have to come up with my own content again! At least today is easy, check out the hashtag #IMWAYR on Twitter to see what others are reading this week! I always end up adding a bunch of books to my…
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Weeding, Weeding, and More Weeding
Our library is embarking on a massive weeding project over the course of the next few months. Weeding has been done for many years, but without too much of a game plan in place and without specific guidelines written out for each section. That is, until a reference librarian bought…