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Director’s Thoughts – 1/23/2023
My Director’s Thoughts posts are back! I just realized that I haven’t posted one of these since December of 2021. I’m not sure what I was doing last year, but I didn’t write a single post about being a library director. So, my goal for 2023 is to create a…
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Storytime Theme: Community Helpers
Community Helpers is a popular theme for preschool and there are dozens of books that would work! You can actually make this one storytime into an entire series – choosing just one type of community helper for each week. For today, I chose to provide books about nine different types…
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2023 YA Debut Titles (August – December)
Today is the final post in my series featuring debut authors this month. You’ll see that in this list there isn’t as much information available and that’s to be expected – right now publishers are focusing on titles being published before summer sets in. Just a special note about this…
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2023 YA Debut Titles (May – July)
Today I’m sharing YA debut titles for summer reading! There are literally so many debut titles being published, I had to break down the lists in a weird way so these blog posts weren’t forever long! Make sure to take a look at the YA debut titles being released at…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Goals 2023
It’s that time of year to set goals, resolutions, “words of the year”, basically a great big reset! Check out my word of the year – so far, I feel like it’s a great reminder when I start to get overwhelmed to take a deep breath. I love getting this…
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2023 YA Debut Titles (January – April)
I’m back again with even more debut authors! This time for the 2023 YA Debut Titles (January – April). There are so many YA authors publishing for the first time this year that I had to break the content up into three separate posts. So, don’t forget to stop back…
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Storytime Theme: Measurement
I’m going to share another STEM theme today for storytime! If you missed last week, we talked about patterns. Today’s storytime theme: measurement can be done in a variety of ways including the very basic “opposites” take which is, really, all about measuring differences. Preschool STEM Introducing STEM and math…
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2023 Middle Grade Debut Authors (July – December)
Make sure you’ve got your Goodreads account ready! Because you’ll definitely find something on this 2023 Middle Grade Debut Authors (July – December) that’s bound to pique your interest! As promised from my post about January – June title, here are some additional debut authors being published in the second…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2023
Graphic novels are insanely popular at our library! So much so, that we’ve had to move them multiple times as the collection continues to grow. So, taking my inspiration from that, I’m sharing my most anticipated books releasing in the first half of 2023, graphic novel style! These ten middle…
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2023 Middle Grade Debut Authors (January – June)
Last week I was able to share a host of debut authors publishing picture books in 2023. Well, I’m back to share some 2023 Middle Grade Debut Authors (January – June). And with so many new authors being published in 2023, I’m posting the first half of the year today…
