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Picture Book Genres: Fantasy
While genres become more of an interest as kids become independent readers, I love the idea of sharing picture books that can also fall into genres as well. And maybe your young readers don’t have a strong opinion about the genres they read, I think exposing them to a wide-variety…
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Storytime Theme: Libraries
Well, it isn’t hard to imagine why this might be one of my favorite lesson plans for storytime! I’ve loved libraries since I was little and have worked in libraries since I was 14 years old! This sweet storytime is sure to be loved by librarians and library kids alike…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Live in My Head Rent-Free
For today’s prompt, I wanted to focus on some back list YA titles, a few of which might be better known than others, but ones that I really enjoyed and would recommend to others looking for something to read. What’s interesting is that my taste in YA titles, runs the…
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Storytime Theme: Movin’ & Groovin’
I think that when a lot of people think about storytime, they imagine an elderly librarian shushing kids and reading long stories with antiquated rhymes and very little excitement. I don’t think people realize that often times, storytime is about meeting kids where they are. And when you’re doing a…
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Newsletter (and Blog) Survey
I’m conducting a brief newsletter survey to better gauge what types of information my readers find most valuable and what they’d like to see in my newsletter. If you’re already a subscriber, thank you! If you don’t already subscribe, I’d love for you to do so! The newsletter comes out…
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Picture Book Genres: Science Fiction
While genres become more of an interest as kids become independent readers, I love the idea of sharing picture books that can also fall into genres as well. And maybe your young readers don’t have a strong opinion about the genres they read, I think exposing them to a wide-variety…
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Storytime Theme: Trees Through the Seasons
While I’ve done a number of lesson plans for storytime featuring different themes for a specific season and I just created a general seasons storytime a couple of months ago, I thought this was such a fun idea that I had to share it. All four seasons from the perspective…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Want to Read by New-to-Me Authors
I decided to “one up” the topic this week by not only sharing new-to-me authors, but debut authors as well! Getting a book published is a huge accomplishment and it can be really difficult to get your book the attention it deserves during it’s publishing season and beyond. So today,…
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Storytime Theme: Animal Homes
This storytime theme was a little trickier to pull together and I honestly think it works better with a bit of an older audience – preschool and early elementary age for sure. What I do like about this lesson plan is that it offers a great way to introduce your…
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Picture Book Genres: Mystery
While genres become more of an interest as kids become independent readers, I love the idea of sharing picture books that can also fall into genres as well. And maybe your young readers don’t have a strong opinion about the genres they read, I think exposing them to a wide-variety…
