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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…
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Reboot
I was scavenging for books late last week when I realized I had nothing to read for the weekend and came across Reboot on an end cap near the science fiction books. Without giving it a second glance (except to check the publication date), I grabbed it off the shelf…
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Fun Friday Program – Water Experiments & Maker Spaces
We had a lot of fun at our Fun Friday program last week! There were 25 kids from 1st – 4th grade that showed up to experiment with water at the library. We first read the book Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen and then we did some hypothesizing…
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Sensory-Friendly Storytime Theme: Animals
I am lucky to visit a few of the Montgomery County Intermediate Classrooms within our community If you are unfamiliar with this service, these are classrooms for children who have either been diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum and/or have other disabilities that make it difficult for them to attend a “mainstream” preschool…
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Story Time Theme: Karma Wilson
As I continue through my “author study” story times, this week we looked more closely at the work of Karma Wilson. I found that most families were familiar with her popular Bear series, but may not be as familiar with her other work. I chose three books that she wrote…
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Scaredy Squirrel Party!
Last night our library held a Scaredy Squirrel Party in honor of Fire Prevention Week. I was originally going to do a fire safety theme, but decided that Scaredy Squirrel was a lot more fun! We ended up with 22 kids from 1st – 3rd grade in attendance on what…
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Sensory Bag Possibilities…
I was on Pinterest one day and found these really cool sensory bags and thought that they might be an interesting idea to try for story time. Before I decided to make 30 of them, I decided to try it out with my friend’s little girl who is about 2…
