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Family Storytime Theme: Snow
My storytime went really well this morning. We’re offering a family storytime on Friday mornings at 10:30am which is something we’ve never done before and it seems to be a BIG hit already! I think I scared the parents a little because most were very attentive and participative. Hopefully, it…
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Multicultural Children’s Book Day
Unfortunately, I missed posting this yesterday, but I wanted to let everyone know of this amazing resource for multicultural children’s books! “Children’s reading and play advocates Valarie Budayr from Jump Into a Book and Mia Wenjen from Pragmatic Mom have teamed up to create an ambitious (and much needed) national event.”…
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STEAM: Bristlebot Workshop
Even with all the snow, we carried on and still offered a Bristlebot Workshop for kids in grades 4 – 8 on Monday night. I started off the program talking about circuitry and although it probably didn’t make the most sense, I think the kids figured out the difference between…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Snow Books
Since we got over two feet of snow, that’s all that is on anyone’s mind! That being said, here are some of my favorite snow books to share in storytime. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Snow by Manya Stojic The Mitten by Jan Brett The Story of Snopw:…
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It’s Monday, What Are Your Reading? 1/25/16
I had all the plans in the world to do a TON of reading this weekend as we got hit by Winter Storm Jonas which dumped over two feet of snow on us in 24 hours. But, shoveling takes a lot of time and we’re not even done yet. So…
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E-Tots – Digital Literacy for our Littlest Patrons
I just finished up a quick program this morning using the library iPads to highlight some fun and educational apps for toddlers and preschoolers. We called it E-Tots – Digital Literacy for our Littlest Patrons. I don’t have any of my own kids, so I know that many parents use…
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National Hug Day
These are just a few of the hundreds of picture books about sharing a hug, but I thought it most appropriate to share them with you today since it’s National Hug Day! One of my favorites is Won’t You Be My Hugaroo? by Joanne Ryder and illustrated by Melissa Sweet – great…
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What I Do for My Library!
On any given day, you could see me dressed like a princess, dragging bags of books out to my car for outreach programs, covered in glitter, or filming a segment for our government access channel, that’s right FILMING! Oh, what I do for my library. I kept joking – you…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’ve Recently Added To My TBR
I’m constantly adding new books to my ever-growing to be read (TBR) pile. These are just a few of the books I’ve come across in the past month or so that I’m interested in reading. Will I get to them all? Not likely, but I can’t complain that I have…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 1/18/16
Over the past week I finally got to read I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson – a world that I was so intrigued by, with two protagonists sharing the same story from two time periods with two points of view. I think John Green, Sarah Dessen and the like…