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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…
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Book Review – Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans
I spent some time this morning reading Drowned City: Hurricane Katrin & New Orleans by Don Brown and was blown away by the powerful storyline, images, and facts about how much went wrong in the face of a disaster that could have been much worse. Here’s my Book Review – Drowned…
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Bonus! Book Review & Resource
Today you, my reader, are getting a Bonus! Book Review & Resource! I thought that I Am Yoga was done in the best possible way! The text is beautiful and the illustrations are gorgeous with washes of color and poses that kids will be able to do at home with their…
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Sensory-Friendly Storytime Theme: Robots
I just finished my fourth storytime of the day and I am beat! Today’s Sensory Friendly Storytime Theme: Robots! These storytimes are provided at classrooms for preschool-age children who have a disability. The disabilities range from vision, language, autism spectrum, learning disabilities, mobility disabilities, and others. It can be exhausting…
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Pre-K Dance Party
We had a HUGE and very successful Pre-K Dance Party yesterday morning with 45+ toddlers and preschoolers and their parents/guardians. It has just been starting to get cold here with a very weird and warm winter. But, kids were ready to come in and move! My few ground rules involved…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 2015 Releases I Meant To Get To But Didn’t
The Terrible Two by Mac Barnett The Girl Who Could Not Dream by Sarah Beth Durst The Unlikely Hero of Room 13-B by Teresa Toten I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli The Zodiac Legacy: Convergance by Stan Lee The…
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It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? 1/11/2016
I participated in my first ever Bout of Books this past week, which means my reading amount is much higher than usual! But, I got through a lot of books that have been on my un-official TBR for a really long time! And I’ve found that there are a lot…