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Children’s Choice Book Awards
Kids and teens can vote for the 7th Annual Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards from March 25 through May 12th for their favorite author, illustrator, and book of the year. This is the only national award created where winning titles are selected by children and teens. Vote by visiting…
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Dewey the Cat or otherwise titled Library Pets
Let me start off by saying, my library does not have a library cat (although that would be kind of cool). We actually have a turtle and for all of you thinking a turtle doesn’t seem very interactive, well then, you’ve never experienced a turtle in the library before! When…
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Libraries: Not Just for Books
I spent the afternoon yesterday at Longwood Gardens – a beautiful space with some amazing features including North America’s largest living wall! That got me thinking about how I could incorporate more science with a focus on planting and growing into the library. I’d love to create an outdoor classroom…
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The Summer I Found You
I was looking for a light, easy read after (finally) finishing a book that I kept reading in the hopes it would get better, it didn’t really get better. The Summer I Found You was a perfect choice – a “chick lit” book with a little more substance than the…
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Cloudette
Tom Lichtenheld is probably one of my favorite picture book authors for an older audience (including adults!). His books have a humor that young children might not understand, but make me chuckle every time I read one of his books. Other books, Lichtenheld has written and/or illustrated include E-Mergency!, Zero the…
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Tween Programming – Theatre
One of the best ways we have found to get tweens (grades 5 – 8) to come into the library is to provide them with an acting opportunity. At this age, the kids love being the center of attention and providing reader’s theatre plays for these kids to participate in,…
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Multicultural Fair
Tonight the library’s hosting a multicultural fair that incorporates and celebrates the diverse community we are a part of. We outreached to a number of library staff members and community members to help by providing information about the heritage and culture at a table where they can include dress/costumes, food,…
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Fun Friday: Extreme Animals
We had a great time at our Fun Friday program yesterday, 22 kids from 1st – 4th grade came to the library to learn about animals, camouflage and to use their imaginations to create their own extreme animal. We began with finding camouflaged animals in the book, Where in the…
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The Killing Woods
During ALA Midwinter, I picked up a number of books that I wouldn’t normally read in the hopes of adding to my reader’s advisory repertoire. This was one of those books – I don’t watch scary movies and don’t like reading scary books, especially right before falling asleep, but after…
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Rosie Revere, Engineer
Another amazing option for this year’s summer reading program – Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts. Rosie like to creates quiet and shy in class, but at night loves to create “gadgets and gizmos.” But when Rosie’s Uncle Zookeeper Fred laughs at one of her inventions, Rosie…
