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Youth Media Awards – Initial Reactions
This is one of my favorite days as a children’s librarian. I know there are those that don’t take much stock in the youth media awards, believing that many of the awards are given to quality literature, yet are not as interesting or accessible to the children reading them. But,…
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It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 2/2/2015
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? From Picture Books to YA! Join Jen from Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee and Ricki from Unleashing Readers and share all of the reading you have done over the week from picture books to young adult novels. Follow the links to read about all of the amazing books…
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Super Bowl Sunday means…
Eating homemade pizza with friends and watching the commercials and halftime show. We’ve got the Susie’s for pepperoni, cheese, white and buffalo chicken pizza and I just might make some chocolate chip cookies as well! What I’m even more excited about is that the Youth Media Awards are being announced…
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#SaturdayLibrarian + Programming = Crazy
We haven’t provided very many Saturday programs in the past, but with more and more patrons requesting Saturday story times, we’ve decided to offer something once a month when a storyteller is working a Saturday shift. If today’s crowd was any indication, we’ll be doing something a lot more on…
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Family Fort Night
We’re having our very first Fort Night at the library this evening! I’m so excited – this would have been the perfect program for me when I was younger! My siblings and I made blanket forts all the time, usually taking over the family room or our playroom and hanging…
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SharpSchu Book Discussion
If you’ve never had the privilege or opportunity to take part in a SharpSchu book discussion, than you definitely need to set aside an hour to do so. Each month Colby Sharp from Sharpread and Mr. Schu from Watch. Connect. Read. host a Twitter book discussion – 30 minutes for a chapter…
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Appreciation
The other day I received a letter in the mail at work (yeah, an actual piece of physical mail!) from a family that has been coming to my story times since about the time I started in my current position almost seven years. With three girls now, the family is…
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Book Review – Stubby the War Dog: The True Story of World War I's Bravest Dog
Stubby the War Dog: The True Story of World War I’s Bravest Dog by Ann Bausum is about an unlikely hero that I had never heard about until reading this informational text. This orphan dog found himself in good company during basic training on Yale’s campus in 1917. Did he…
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New Collection/Rebranding an Old Collection
I’ve been posting about our progress as we rebrand one of our collections in the children’s department. The collection is what we currently call the Bridging Collection, mostly picture books that are for an older audience as well as a catch-all location for materials that don’t fit easily into the…
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Awesome New Resource!
This is too good not to post! A great new resources focused on music for kid! Check out Song Catchers’ Library I’m excited to find some new music for storytime as this is always the most difficult part, I find. Have some great music to add to the list? They have…