• Activities

    Storytime Theme: Hibernation

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    With classic favorites like Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and nonfiction titles like Why Do Bears Sleep All Winter? by Mary Englar, this storytime theme: hibernation is an easy one to create! You can incorporate as much weather-related science as you want to create a STEM storytime, or shift…

  • Lists

    Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2019

    Top Ten Tuesday

    I wasn’t really sure where I was going when I started thinking about this post, but I realized there were so many other books I loved this year that I didn’t get to promote, so here are just a few! I wanted to highlight a couple of picture books and…

  • Lists

    6 Picture Books All About Shopping

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    Sundays are familiar days for me. Yes, they come around every week, but you can also find me at the grocery store most Sunday mornings. I usually spend some time putting together a menu for the week. And then making sure I have a grocery list that has everything I…

  • Activities

    Storytime Theme: Snow

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    It’s kind of ironic that I’m posting my Storytime Theme: Snow today. In my neck of the woods, our high today is 66°F which means I’ll be outside walking the pup with a sweatshirt on instead of my winter coat, hat, mittens, and boots. I have a love-hate relationship with…

  • Lists

    2020 Debut Picture Book Authors & Illustrators

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    Part of what I love doing by having a platform that reaches beyond my immediate family and friends is promoting books, creators, and publishers! And what’s more exciting than promoting debut authors and illustrators? Don’t get me wrong, I love it when a creator produces their second, third, etc. novels.…

  • Lists

    Narwhals, the Unicorn of the Sea

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    I must be in a fantastical mindset this weekend as I posted about Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Yeti yesterday and today I’m sharing books about narwhals! Narwhals, the unicorn of the sea is an actual animal that lives in the arctic waters. These cousins of bottlenose dolphins, orcas, and belugas live…

  • Lists

    Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, Oh My!

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    Kids in my library love books about the unexplained – aliens, unicorns, and monsters of all shapes and sizes. This morning as I took my pup out for her morning walk, the neighborhood was blanketed, not in the snow you would expect for January, but in a dense layer of…

  • Lists

    6 Picture Books All About Santa Claus

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    Merry Christmas! Today I’m sharing just 6 Picture Books All About Santa Claus that you can sneak a peek at in between gift-giving, cookie-eating, and family time! If you celebrate, have a wonderful holiday, if not, I hope you have a great day and I’ll be back tomorrow! 6 Picture…

  • Lists

    6 Picture Books for Hanukkah

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    Tonight is the third night of Hanukkah and I wanted to make sure I shared 6 Picture Books for Hanukkah – some newer titles about this Festival of Lights. I’ll be honest when I say because of where I grew up, I know very little about the Jewish faith. But,…

  • Reviews

    The Night Baafore Christmas

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    The Night Baafore Christmas Synopsis: “It’s Christmas Eve and Bo can’t sleep, so he starts counting sheep. But when the sheep get bored, they scatter, wreaking holiday mayhem all over the house. “Sheep 4 gnaws the stockings–leaves holes in the toes; 5 swallows some garland, and tinsel, and bows!” Children…