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Hello Everyone! This week’s book for Black History Month is Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy. The author’s website recommends the book for children ages 8-12. It is very poetic and informative (it also includes a section at the back with more information for parents to read)…
Hello Everyone! This week’s book for Black History Month is Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison (It’s in our juvenile nonfiction section). This book contains interesting information about important figures in Black History. Perfect for Black History Month! Plus, the illustrations are adorable. The author, Vashti Harrison also recently won the Caldecott Medal…
Hello Everyone, It’s Black History Month! To celebrate, I’ll be highlighting books written by Black authors and illustrators in these emails all month. This week’s book is The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney. It’s an almost wordless retelling of one of Aesop’s fables, and, as you can see from the cover, it is very beautiful….
Hello Everyone! I hope everyone is well! The weather the last few weeks has been kind of terrifying, but it looks like we’re in the clear for now. For February, we have two new displays in the children’s room and in the juvenile fiction room! For the children’s room, I collected books about family, friends,…
Hello everyone! Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! The holiday has passed, but fear not! Even though MLK Day is over, there’s still plenty to learn! Here are three children’s books to give a try! Voices of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander Choosing Brave by Angela Joy For this week’s…
Hello Everyone! The weather is getting weirder and weirder, which means it’s a good time to hide inside with a book! And boy do we have books! Here are a few of my favorites that we read at storytime! For this week’s storytime, we read Olivia by Ian Falconer and Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be…
Hello Everyone! It’s been a while! I hope everyone had an excellent holiday season and new year! There’s a lot to catch up on in this email, so I am going to get started. Last week for story time we read Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima and Are Dinosaurs Dead, Dad? by Julie Middleton. Not Quite Narwhal is a cute…
Hello Everyone! I can’t believe it’s almost January already! I haven’t even started thinking about a New Year’s resolution yet. What I have done is finished the event calendar for January! We’ve got a bunch of fun activities planned for everyone! As always, if anyone has any questions, feel free to email me. We have…
Hello Everyone! December is going by so fast! And we lost all our snow already! If we all think very cold thoughts, it might come back. Maybe. That’s how weather works, right? This week we read Wolfie the Bunny by Ame Dyckman and Help! We Need a Title! By Hervé Tullet during story time and made our own book…
Hello everyone! On Thursday I attended a webinar about running the Summer Reading Program. It feels like summer is so far away, but it’ll be here before we know it, and with it, more library activities! We have plenty going on next week! On Wednesday from 3:30 to 4 we will have Yarn Time! Come…