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Whoooo’s at Storytime?
This week’s toddler storytime theme was owls! We learned the sign language word for owl (the same motion is used for binoculars as well!) and we read three owl-themed stories. The first story was called Cock-A-Doodle-HOOOOOO! by Mick Manning about an owl who walks into a henhouse on a rainy…
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Boys Without Names
Boys Without Names written by Kashmira Sheth is a much more serious book than I have been reading of late, but it is an eye-opening fictional story about a real-life issue that still plagues the world. The story is about an eleven-year-old boy named Gopal who moves from his rural…
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Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to NOT Reading
I must have been in a pretty specific mood late last week when I picked my books to read for the weekend. Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to NOT Reading written by Tommy Greenwald has a similar feel to yesterday’s post about the book Middle School – The Worst Years of…
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Middle School – The Worst Years of My Life
Middle School – The Worst Years of My Life written by James Patterson (yes, that James Patterson… the one that wrote the Witch & Wizard series for YA, the Maximum Ride series, as well as the Alex Cross detective series for adults) is a fun read – especially for middle…
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Childhood Favorites
My brother and sister-in-law came out to visit me for a long weekend and as we were catching up with each other’s lives, my brother turns to me and asks if I remember a certain book from our childhood that my mom read aloud to us. Let me…
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Which Books Should You Read This Summer?
I must really be in to infographics this week. I found this great infographic with 101 book choices for this summer. It was created by teach.com for high school teens as a way to encourage reading for fun this summer. It’s a great big flowchart with both fiction and nonfiction options. Now…
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Are School Librarians Necessary?
YES!!!!! The Colorado State Library has done a number of amazing studies in the field of library science. Recently, I came across an infographic that shows how school librarians have made a difference in the state test scores of Colorado student. Check out the amazing infographic! I never really considered…
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Story Time Goes to the Beach
This week’s theme for story time was the beach. It’s a quick and easy theme to do because many of our patrons visit the shore during the summer time! We learned the sign language word for ocean, listened to My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean and we shared three beach-themed stories. All You…
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Step Gently Out
Step Gently Out written by Helen Frost with photography by Rick Lieder is a beautifully written poem about being outside and noticing the small things in nature. The brief, descriptive language is paired beautifully with close-up photography of insects in nature. At the end of the poem there is a section…
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Daniel Rubin Column
Daniel Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer posted an article today entitled “Libraries’ Experts on Call: A Dwindling Breed” about the librarians of the Free Library of Philadelphia that field the general information questions posed by patrons. Within the article Daniel Rubin points out how the 14 in-demand librarians of the…