• Activities

    AtoZ Blogging Challenge – Gardening

    Program Name: How Does Your Garden Grow? What: Offer one or a series of programs about gardening for your patrons. We do this every year and it’s some of our most well-attended programs. This year we’re offering – Backyard Composting, Vertical Gardening, Raised Bed Gardening and Container Gardening. Where: These classes are…

  • Reviews

    #blogbookaday: Go Big or Go Gnome

    Summary:  “Laugh your whiskers off with Albert the Gnome in this charming and funny picture book about friendship, self-acceptance — and beards! A beard is the biggest point of pride for a Gnome, but poor Al can’t sprout a single whisker. Each year, Al feels left out of the Beards International…

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    #blogbookaday: My Busy Green Garden

    Summary:  “So begins this lyrical tribute to the bugs, bees, and birds that make the garden such a busy place. With each turned page, more visitors appear, and all the while the “surprise”—a chrysalis—changes unnoticed until, on the last page, a butterfly emerges and flies away across the garden’s well-tended borders.…

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    #blogbookaday: Anywhere Farm

    Summary:  “For any anywhere farm, here’s all that you need: soil and sunshine, some water, a seed. You might think a farm means fields, tractors, and a barnyard full of animals. But you can plant a farm anywhere you like! A box or a bucket, a boot or a pan almost…

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    Blogging A to Z: Vegetables

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    During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the Blogging From A to Z Challenge.  My theme for the month is Storytime Plans From A to Z.  Each plan will have eight stories as well as four songs, fingerplays or rhymes to match the theme!  As you can see,…

  • Activities

    Blogging From A to Z: Gardens

    During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the Blogging From A to Z Challenge.  My theme for the month is Storytime Plans From A to Z.  Each plan will have eight stories as well as four songs, fingerplays or rhymes to match the theme!  As you can see,…

  • Lifestyle

    Libraries: Not Just for Books

    I spent the afternoon yesterday at Longwood Gardens – a beautiful space with some amazing features including North America’s largest living wall!  That got me thinking about how I could incorporate more science with a focus on planting and growing into the library.  I’d love to create an outdoor classroom…

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    Story Time Theme: Growing a Garden

    I have been very remiss in posting for the past week, but I’m back and have a great new story time theme, plus a lot of program updates from the past week.  This week we talked about growing a garden during story time and read some really fun and interactive…

  • Reviews

    Plant a Kiss

    Plant a Kiss by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Peter H. Reynolds is an adorable story about the power of love.  Little Miss plants a kiss and to her amazement it turns into something so much bigger than she ever imagined.  With very simple sentences that span pages and adorable illustrations with just…