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Activity Corner – Bake Cookies Day
It’s Bake Cookies Day! And if you celebrate Christmas, it’s a great day to get in the kitchen and make some yummy treats for Santa, the neighbors, or the family. Growing up, we made lots of different cookies during the Christmas holiday. Then my mom would make plates and we’d…
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Activity Corner – Pointillism & Georges Seurat
Today is Georges Seurat’s birthday! Best known for his work in pointillism, Seurat’s focus on color is greatly appreciated by the art world. And seeing as polka dots are one of my favorite patterns for clothing, I wanted to share some fun books and activities that highlight dots! Whether your…
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Activity Corner – Gratitude
We’re offering a really fun grab-and-go activity at the library this month – a handprint gratitude wreath! It inspired this post on all things gratitude. It’s hard, after almost two years of the complete upheaval of daily life to take the time to find things to be thankful for. But…
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Writing Workshop
This year we’re hosting our 47th annual write and illustrate contest for kids. Each year kids in grades Kindergarten – 8th grade submit their own stories that they written and illustrated and the winners in each grade have their books professionally bound and added to our collection. What’s really great…
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Activity Corner – Dragons
We offered a really fun grab and go activity at the library last month – a fire-breathing dragon and I thought I’d share it with a few books and other activities for a perfect activity corner post. There are some extra adorable picture books about dragons, but also some great…
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Activity Corner – Owls
I love owls, especially ones found in picture books. I’m honestly not sure why because I’m not a huge fan of birds, to begin with, but I really like owls! A quick side note, for about a year and a half, I mistakenly thought my brother’s then-girlfriend (now wife) loved…
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Activity Corner – Pinecones
Let me set the stage, every morning I roll out of bed as my dog insistently whines at me to get a move on. I stumble through the house with my eyes barely open, pulling on something that’s halfway reasonable for the neighbors to see me in. Then I pull…
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12 Read Alikes for Dog Man Fans
Our library has multiple (as in at least three) copies of every Dog Man book by Dav Pilkey. And it’s not uncommon to have them all checked out at one time. And to me, it’s so exciting! It’s exciting to see kids that are literally jumping up and down when…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 3/15/2021
What I Read I’m about three-quarters of the way through Ravage the Dark the sequel to Scavenge the Stars. I worked late two night this week and worked on Saturday too, so my reading time was definitely limited. The good news is that I also read a couple of picture…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 3/8/2021
What I Read I’m still not reading up to my typical level, but here’s hoping I can get to a little more this week. I had to work on Saturday and we’re renovating one of our bathrooms which took some time on Sunday cutting into my reading time. But, really…
