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2024 Board Books for Littles
I love board books, they’re such a cute size and if you’re reading for a good audience, it’s definitely time for quality snuggles! This list of board books are all brand new for 2024 – some might be previously published as full-size picture books, while others are brand new and…
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Storytime Theme: Hot & Cold
Today is a storytime lesson plan all about opposites and it’s a perfect one for today as the temperature has plummeted where I live and it’s been quite cold over the past few days. I’m remembering again why I dislike the winter – I hate being cold! But, this frigid…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Winter Holidays in Picture Books
It’s another freebie week! And I’m excited to share this very brief list of picture books about winter holidays from St. Lucia Day (inspired) to Lunar New Year and so many in between! I’m going to caveat this list to say that this is just one depiction of the holidays…
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Storytime Theme: Letter V
It’s Letter V day! Another tricky letter this week, the Letter V led me to picture books about vacuums, volcanoes, vultures, and more. Some of these letters are tricky to find words that preschoolers are going to recognize and that also show up in picture books. This is a letter…
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December Read Alouds
It’s time for another month’s read alouds to celebrate wacky, silly, important, and historical holidays! This list combines not only great fictional read alouds, but some nonfiction and biographies as well to teach kids about fun and interesting facts and people. I’m not taking all the credit, as the blog…
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Storytime Theme: Hair
Today’s lesson plan is all about hair because hair is special and unique to everyone! There are so many colors both natural and dyed, textures, styles and more! This lesson plan was created to celebrate the differences and discover similarities. Most of the books listed below are all about kids,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Picture Books on Gratitude
Today’s a thankfulness freebie for Top Ten Tuesday and while last week I shared about the ten things that make me thankful for public libraries, today I wanted to share just a couple of picture books about gratitude and thankfulness. Take a look at this list full of some popular…
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Storytime Theme: Letter U
I’ll be honest, the end of the alphabet gets a little trickier with some letters that are not so easy to find picture books for, but I will persevere because after this week there are only five more letters left! I can’t believe it! Today’s letter was difficult, no doubt…
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Director’s Thoughts – 11/22/24
Since it’s November and a time for gratefulness, I decided to share ten reasons why I’m thankful for libraries. I grew up visiting my home library since I can remember and I started working in libraries when I was 14 years old. I have had a passion for libraries for…
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Graphic Novels for Beginner Readers
Graphic novels, or a longer variation of comics are some of the most popular books available at my library, especially for kids. For many years, graphic novels were geared toward middle grade readers (ages 8-12), but in recent years a plethora of beginner readers have cropped making graphic novels more…
