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Plant a Kiss
Plant a Kiss by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Peter H. Reynolds is an adorable story about the power of love. Little Miss plants a kiss and to her amazement it turns into something so much bigger than she ever imagined. With very simple sentences that span pages and adorable illustrations with just…
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Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip by Jordan Sonnenblick is a quick read about a All-Star pitcher, Peter going into high school. He’s pretty sure life will be a breeze when he joins the high school baseball team with his best friend, AJ until a pitching accident over the summer ruins…
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Kids Say the Darndest Things
As probably most of you know, kids have some of the funniest things to say. I have a friend whose kids, I believe, are the FUNNIEST kids on the planet, she is constantly posting their conversations and I find myself laughing out loud every time. I’ve been so busy with…
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Story Time Theme: The Color Green
Story time is back in full swing here at my library and although I didn’t have a packed house on Monday (I’m blaming the holiday weekend), my Yoga Story Time was chock full with 14 out of 15 kids present. I was very excited to hear one 4-year old boy,…
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Family Place – Parent/Child Workshop
Back in October of last year, I posted about going to training to become a Family Place Library. After six months, numerous meetings, and spending our grant money, I’m happy to report our first Parent/Child Workshop went beautifully. For those of you unfamiliar with the Family Place Libraries is a…
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The Center of Everything
The Center of Everything by Linda Urban is a coming-of-age story for a young girl whose grandmother has recently passed away. Ruby Pepperdine lives in Bunning New Hampshire where it is said the inventor of the donut settled after spending years on the ocean in his sailing ship. Ruby’s grandmother…
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Book Love: Help Your Child Grow from Reluctant to Enthusiastic Reader
Book Love: Help Your Child Grow from Reluctant to Enthusiastic Reader by Melissa Taylor is a quick resource guide with some great ideas to do just what the title says, to get a reluctant reader to become an enthusiastic reader. Under 150-pages, I read this book from cover to cover…
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Open This Little Book
This book is such a fun surprise when you open it. I have seen this title flit across the blogs and book reviews, but I didn’t realize its structure until I opened it up and began to read. Inside you’ll find the first on many “little” books, this one being…
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Read! Build! Play! Lego Duplo Story Time
My library participated in the Read! Build! Play! Project back in October and we received a library toolkit from the Lego company with a box full of Duplos and 10 kits and a big book of Grow Caterpillar Grow. You can see the kit from Amazon, here. This afternoon I…
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Summer Book Discussion Group for Middle School Students (Grades 5-8)
The job of a children’s librarian is never done. Just as I’ve finally caught my breath with a number of programs and projects, the summer planning is looming ahead of me. Each year we offer our rising 5th – 8th graders two different book discussion opportunities. The first is called…