• Activities

    Storytime Theme: Juneteenth

    Juneteenth Storytime header

    Celebrate Juneteenth this year with a special storytime program with age appropriate books for preschoolers and early elementary school age kids. I don’t think storytime necessarily needs to end when kids start school and this is a perfect example of a storytime that would work really well with an older…

  • Reviews

    Picture Book Month: Freedom

    Kadir Nelson is an amazingly talented painter whose illustrations jump off the page and come to life with rich oil paint and pencil details. This is the remarkable story of Henry and how he actually shipped himself to freedom in a wooden crate. Of course, being a slave, Henry’s spent…

  • Lifestyle

    Happy Banned Book Week

    This is the 30th Anniversary of Banned Book Week sponsored in part by the American Library Association (ALA) that celebrates the freedom to read.  It’s 2012 and banning books is still a common process in many school libraries and public libraries around the country.  For many reasons this surprises me still –…