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Story Time Theme: Growing a Garden
I have been very remiss in posting for the past week, but I’m back and have a great new story time theme, plus a lot of program updates from the past week. This week we talked about growing a garden during story time and read some really fun and interactive…
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I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!
I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More written by Karen Beaumont and illustrated David Catrow is such a fun story to share with little kids and even early elementary age children because the whole story can be sung or read and has great rhymes throughout it. The story is about a…
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The Runaway King
I fell in love with The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen and couldn’t wait for The Runaway King to be published nad I was not disappointed! A fast-paced story with something for everyone including pirates, thieves, sword fights, a kingdom on the verge of war, a love triangle, and…
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Fun Friday Program – Haikus
I have been remiss in blogging about last Friday’s Fun Friday program at the library. As many of you know, it is National Poetry Month and as such, our porgram centered around haikus. I began the program discussing the master haiku poet, Matsuo Basho, a Japanese man from the 17th…
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Courage Has No Color
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s First Black Paratroopers written by Tanya Lee Stone is such an interesting piece of history that I had never heard before. I am amazed by informational text authors finding these interesting subjects to write about – I feel that…
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Story Time Theme: Bunny Rabbits
I know many librarians who cringe when they have to work around a “theme” for story time. I find it easier to focus on a theme and find great books surrounding an idea, color, letter, number, or object. Most of my themes this session really focus on spring and what…
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Lucky, Blessed, Call it whatever you want…
After the events of yesterday in Boston, you have to take a moment to pause and thank whoever you believe in that you are alright. I’d rather not dwell on the atrocities that occurred in Boston, but I also feel the need to acknowledge the event and to thank all the people…
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Ask the Passengers
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King is a great young adult novel focusing on the ideas of not fitting in, bullying, small-town life, and figuring out who you are. I grew up in a small town and could easily relate to the main character, Astrid Jones. Small town life can be…
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Story Time Theme – PA’s One Book, Every Young Child
Each year, Pennsylvania highlights the importance of early literacy skills for children ages 3 – 6 by choosing a book that is then distributed to libraries, head start programs, child care centers, and preschools. Author visits, a traveling trunk with fun manipulatives and toys and activities and booklists to share with families with…
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Choosing to Read: Connecting Middle Schoolers to Books
Choosing to Read: Connecting Middle Schoolers to Books by Joan Schroeder Kindig is a wonderful professional resource for teachers, librarians, and even parents interested in middle schoolers and their reading habits. Like many other professional resources I have been reading recently, Kindig argues that a reader’s choice is the most…