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Story Time Theme – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
This week’s story time author/illustrator was Amy Krouse Rosenthal – another favorite author of mine whose books are funny, poignant, and can help children learn valuable life lessons. Again, I think these books may have faired better with a little older audience (I’m thinking preschool age), but they are still…
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Exciting News…
It has been a couple of crazy weeks in October with programming, story times, new employees and more, but I received some very exciting news a few weeks ago and realized I hadn’t had a chance to share with you. I’ve been accepted to participate in the American Library Association’s (ALA) Emerging…
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Pumpkin Trouble
It’s that time of year! No, not Christmas (yet!), but Halloween and there are some great books out there for the holiday. Kids around here are ready to go trick-or-treating and have been talking about costumes for awhile now. I thought I’d post this great holiday book as it fits…
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Zombiekins
Over the weekend I was traveling and grabbed Zombiekins by Kevin Bolger as an audiobook to listen to in the car. It was a great choice (especially around Halloween)! It’s definitely the perfect book to give to kids looking for something a little scary, but funny too! And it’s definitely…
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PaLA Annual Conference
I was fortunate to spend Monday at the Seven Springs Mountain Resort for the Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference. I find conferences invigorating, exciting, and fun! I love to learn about new ideas, programs, and concepts and seeing so many of my fellow librarians excited about what they do, excites…
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Story Time Theme – Paul Schmid
This week our story time author/illustrator was Paul Schmid. He writes and illustrates absolutely beautiful and adorable stories for little ones. Unfortunately, these stories were a little too long for my crowd, but would most likely work for an older audience in preschool. I did blowup balloons for the kids…
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Author Talk – A.S. King
PaLA’s Annual Conference is happening this week at the beautiful Seven Springs Mountain Resort in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Although I was only able to stay for just one day, I learned a lot of great new ideas and am excited for the new possibilities these ideas represent. I was also able…
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Road Trip
I took a road trip to my parent’s house for the weekend and tabbed a few audiobooks for the road. It’s a five hour trip across the state and a perfect time to get some “reading” in with nothing else to do but pay attention to the road. I normally…
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Neil Gaiman on Libraries
Neil Gaiman, popular author of Coraline, recently had a lecture published on the importance imagination, public libraries and daydreaming is vital to our future. Definitely take the time to read the full lecture, posted on The Guardian’s website. This lecture that Gaiman presented, is in essence, a love letter to…
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Story Time Theme: Kevin Henkes
This week I focused on books written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes. And for some reason I had a lot of interest checking out the books after story time, Henkes books, I think, might work better in a one-on-one setting as many of his books are quiet books that can…