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Story Time Theme: Yellow
We are continuing our color-themed story times this week with the color yellow! With only eight kids in attendance, I thought we’d be able to whiz through a lot of things, but the kids were very squirmy! Even so, I was able finally to use the nursery rhyme cube, but…
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Children's Book Council
The Children’s Book Council (CBC) “is the nonprofit trade association of children’s book publishers in North America, dedicated to supporting and informing the industry and fostering literacy.” That really means that the CBC works closely with children’s book publishers to professional development, marketing, and advocacy as well as partnerships with national…
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Boo — And I Mean It! (Junie B. Jones Event)
Last night we hosted a Junie B. Jones event at the library, because, let’s be real, we all love Junie B. Jones! We had a great sign up with over 25 kids on the registration and waiting list, but sadly only 11 showed up for the program. But we all…
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Home Library Booklists
Creating a home library for young children is so important to promote early literacy skills as well as to create wonderful bonding time between your child and the adults in their life. Without going into all the research, access to books and being read aloud to (every day!) are two…
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Story Time Theme: Green
I think the universe finally saw it fit to provide me with a really great storytime (finally)! The past few weeks have been very busy, chaotic and not always the best storytimes I’ve offered. But today, it was awesome! We focused on the color green today and boy did we…
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One of Those Days…
It’s been a fairly busy week for us – Life-Size Board Games on Monday, story times, Enchanted Library rehearsal, meetings and more. But today was our last Parent/Child Workshop for our fall series. It started off as a great morning, even without our usual extra help we were able to…
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National Book Award Finalists
It’s getting close to the time of year when the “Best of the Best” lists come out for just about everything – including books! The National Book Award just posted it’s finalists in its four areas Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. As per usual, I’m really only interested…
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Story Time Theme: Blue
Following in last week’s footsteps, this week’s theme is the color BLUE! Although I had a much smaller crowd this week, we had a great time learning about the color blue. I still haven’t gotten a chance to use my nursery rhyme cube, but we were able to get through…
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Life-Size Clue (it’s easier than you think!)
Yesterday morning, we offered Life-Size Candyland for our younger patrons, definitely check out all the fun we had! And in the afternoon, we offered Life-Size Clue for our middle schoolers. The set-up isn’t too difficult, it just requires more than a little math. And some willingness to crawl around on the…
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Life-Size Candyland
The kids have the day off of school, so we decided to take advantage and offer Life-Size Candyland at the library. It was absolutely crazy, but the kids had a great time! We found this idea from the ALSC blog and from a website called Recreation Guy. And what we…
