• Activities

    Storytime Theme: Travel Adventure

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    With this year’s summer reading theme being “Adventure Beings at Your Library,” I wanted to make sure we have lots of great suggestions early in the year! Check out last week’s adventure themes – ocean and outdoors too! This storytime lesson plan works well for an adventure-theme program but could…

  • Lists

    6 Road Trip Picture Books

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    Here are a 6 road trip picture books about taking a road trip just in time for the last long weekend of summer vacation. As I mentioned, I’m spending the long weekend at my parents’ house with a bunch of friends and family. It’s about a five-hour drive from my…

  • Lists

    Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Audiobooks for Kids

    I grew up traveling around the United States and have vivid memories of listening to audiobooks in the car – what else were my parents supposed to do with four kids in the car for 10+ hour road trips?  My parents also really loved The Phantom of the Opera and I…

  • Reviews

    Book Review: In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse

    I think having New Year’s Eve fall on a Thursday is absolutely genius!  The library was closed yesterday (Friday) and I don’t have to work this weekend allowing me to begin 2016 in the right way – with lots of reading!  I read In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph…

  • Lifestyle

    I'll Be Home for Christmas

    I figured I write this up  in advance, so that as I’m driving home for the holiday, I’ll have something posted to my blog.  I am so lucky that my commute is within walking distance, but that leaves me little time to listen to audiobooks in the car or keep…

  • Reviews

    Road Trip

    I took a road trip to my parent’s house for the weekend and tabbed a few audiobooks for the road. It’s a five hour trip across the state and a perfect time to get some “reading” in with nothing else to do but pay attention to the road. I normally…