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Storytime Theme: Cities
Well, we’ve stopped off at the beach, the desert, rivers and streams, the mountains, and now we’re headed to the busy city! I love visiting the big city, I’m not sure if I could ever actually live in one (I like my green grass and trees), but visiting is great.…
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9 Books All About National Parks
I’m traveling this week and although I didn’t make it up to Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, I will be headed to Rocky Mountain National Park later this week! I also just got back from Mammoth Cave National Park a few weeks ago. And so, with the popularity of…
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Director’s Thoughts – 7/16/2023
As a municipal library, budget season is around the corner, which I’m sure I’ll be talking about in a later post. But for now, I’m already focusing on goals and objectives for 2024. Goal setting at an organizational level can be very daunting as you have to consider funding, staffing,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: One Word Titles
I’ve mentioned in the past that I love Top Ten Tuesday topics merely because it pulls together titles you wouldn’t typically see on the same list of books. Today’s theme of one word titles was an easy list to pull together with a focus on middle grade novels perfect for…
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ALSC Notable Lists
I know I’m always looking for great books suggestions and I’ll often look at book awards and notable book lists, but as a blogger and librarian, I’ll often know where to look to find these great suggestions. I’m not always sure that the general public knows how to find these…
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Storytime Theme: Mountains
Well, we’ve stopped off at the beach, the desert, rivers and streams, and now inspired by my vacation plans to Colorado today we’re talking about mountains! There are some absolutely adorable mountain books out there with some great baby animals. There are also some great books about hiking which is…
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16 New Board Books for Littles
The littlest of readers don’t get as much attention on this blog as they should, so I’m hoping to remedy that a bit today with a list of 16 new board books for littles. New board books don’t seem to be promoted as much as picture books or even middle…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ice Cream Covers
It’s a Top Ten Tuesday Freebie week which means I’ve got to get creative! And being that it’s summer, and it’s hot, and the fact that I absolutely LOVE ice cream, I knew exactly what this week’s theme would be – ice cream covers! And not only are they ice…
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15 Fly Guy Read Alikes
My nephew is in that awesome phase where he’s working his way through some awesome easy readers! He started the school year still learning how to sound out words and in a few short months his reading level skyrocketed! It’s so fun to see and I love this new phase…
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Storytime Theme: Rivers & Streams
Well, we’ve stopped off at the beach, the desert, and now we’re hanging out on the banks of a river for storytime this week! This was a fun storytime to pull together and I was surprised by the number of books that were about rivers and streams! I love all…
