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Book Review: Loot: How to Steal a Fortune
Loot is exactly what Jude Watson does best – action-packed, fast-paced and adventure wrapped up in a story you can’t put down. When March’s father, a notorious cat burglar dies on the job, March must finish one last job. His father’s dying words to March, “Find jewels,” and it’s only…
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American Helicopter Museum Visit
Last night was our last big program of the summer (yay!) where we invited the American Helicopter Museum to give the kids some brief information about helicopters and then the kids got the chance to sit in a helicopter, push some buttons and take some photos. For the event, we…
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Edible Book Contest
This is such a great event to encourage getting children into the kitchen! We’ve had an annual Edible Book Contest for the past six years and although we don’t get many submissions (usually between 10 – 15) the kids that do submit edible books are amazingly creative and their submissions…
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Busy Mondays
It’s one of those days where we are short-staffed and you can tell the summer is winding down as parents are coming in frantically trying to find their children’s summer reading books for school, not to mention, it’s shark week so shark books are flying off the shelf. I’ve also…
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten Celebration
Last night we had a celebratory party for all the families who have completed the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program and it was so much fun! I wanted to make sure that it was very different from our typical story time and that the kids knew we were celebrating them! …
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Book Review: The Selection
Looking for a quick read? The Selection is the perfect choice. A chick-lit, YA book, I read the whole thing in almost one sitting as it was a quick and very easy read. America Singer wants very little in her young life, to continue singing and playing instruments and the…
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Book Review: "The Swift Boys & Me"
I picked this book up thinking it would be a middle grade novel where everything gets wrapped up very neatly by the end of the story, but I was pleasantly surprised with the ending of this book although there was closure, it was not how I expected it to end. …
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3rd & 4th Grade Book Discussion
We started our 3rd & 4th grade book discussion last summer and had some great experiences and the kids who attended all read the books! This is particularly amazing because I can’t always get our middle school students to read the book (which can make a book discussion difficult), but…
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Fall Programming Ideas
Although in our area children do not go back to school until after Labor Day, I’m already hard at work finalizing fall programming dates and times as well as beginning to promote events that are upcoming in September. Our summer reading program doesn’t even end until the 29th, so we…
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Summer Camp Outreach – Shrinky Dinks
This week at summer camp we made Shrinky Dinks! If you’re unfamiliar with Shrinky Dinks you can get Shrinky Dink paper from Amazon. It’s basically a sheet of plastic that can be decorated using colored pencils and shrinks when you put it in the oven (or in our case –…
