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PeRLs are Worth More than Gold

As April showers give way to May flowers, we’ll be making visits to 4th and 5th grade classes to talk up our amazing Personalized Reading List (PeRL) program. I know I am biased, but there probably isn’t another public library out there that offers such an outstanding service for readers of any age. (Sorry adults, [...]

April 24th, 2013
dragonslayer

You Go Girl! Books with Strong Girls

Now that Women’s History Month is nearly history, I would like to add my two cents to March’s month-long celebration of women and girls. It’s my contention that protagonists in fiction are no less influential than the real people in biographies. While growing up during the 1960s, my heroes were Louisa May Alcott’s Meg, Lewis [...]

March 27th, 2013
Danny_2009

Library Cards and Designer Bookmarks

September and October are great months to celebrate the legacy of the past and the promise of our library’s future. Bring your youngster in to get a library card (or get one yourself), pick up some Bookmark Design Contest entry forms (or download them here), and remember how much there is to love about the [...]

September 12th, 2012
bubbles

It’s the end-of-summer party!!

As August makes its way past the halfway mark, things are winding down in the Children’s Room – no longer are there throngs of children waiting to get their reading logs stamped as soon as the library opens. The game concludes this Friday, roughly two weeks before public schools open on September 10th. Participants in [...]

August 22nd, 2012
why we have day and night

Earth Day and Metafiction in Picture Books

The Cloud Spinner (2012) by Michael Catchpool, illustrated by Alison Jay. A boy who spins exquisite yarn from clouds makes two magical scarves that he wears for hot and cold weather. His mantra, “Enough is enough and not once stitch more,” is the refrain of a song taught to him by his mother. When a [...]

April 18th, 2012
Seriously-Norman-Raschka-Chris

Lions, Bunnies, and Nerds – New Book for Older Readers

The Lions of Little Rock (2012) by Kristin Levine It’s 1958 in Little Rock, Arkansas and twelve-year old Marlee won’t say a word – she is literally struck dumb in front of her classmates, too shy to speak in anything but one word sentences. When Liz, a pretty, self-confident new girl befriends and draws her [...]

March 21st, 2012
Fairy tales

Horses, Black History, and Fairy Tales – New Books for Older Readers

The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (2011) edited by Noel Daniel, newly translated by Matthew P. Price with Noel Daniel 2012 is the two-hundredth anniversary of the publication of the first of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s famous fairy tales. This extravagant volume celebrates that milestone with 27 newly translated stories decorated by the work [...]

February 8th, 2012
Dead End in Norvelt

And the winners are…

This morning, Monday, January 23rd, the major children’s literary awards were announced at the American Library Association conference in Dallas. For months, children’s librarians have been reading, discussing and blogging about possible contenders and now we know! Today, I’ll look at the ‘big two’ for children’s literature – the Caldecott and Newbery awards – and [...]

January 23rd, 2012
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