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Storytime Theme: Cooking
Cooking is one of my most favorite pastimes. If you’re familiar with the “love languages” feeding people is definitely my love language. I love to make delicious food for friends, my staff at the library, and of course my family. So, it’s not a stretch that I wanted to create…
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One, Two, Three Dim Sum
One, Two, Three Dim Sum Synopsis: “Children and their parents can learn to count to ten in both English and Mandarin in this fun bilingual counting book of food. This book features traditional Chinese food items paired with numbers in both English and Chinese. Illustrated by Rich Lo, you’ll learn…
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36 Titles for Babies & Toddlers: Social Justice, Equality and Diversity
I just recently had someone reach out to me on Facebook asking for titles for a new baby/toddler about social justice, equality, and diversity. Basically, a way to flood her child’s bookshelf with books that make them a better citizen of the world. Now, there aren’t a ton of titles for…
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Resource: Diverse BookFinder
Check out this great new resource for getting diverse picture books into the hands of readers. The Diverse BookFinder “is linked with a circulating collection of picture books published since 2002, housed at Ladd Library on the Bates College campus.” And although not as extensive as maybe this diverse list from…
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Multi-Cultural Night
This is one of my favorite programs we put together at our library – we’ve done this a few times. What makes it absolutely amazing is that we ask our patrons to share their culture which means we get an authentic look into a variety of cultures in just one…
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Multicultural Children’s Book Day
Unfortunately, I missed posting this yesterday, but I wanted to let everyone know of this amazing resource for multicultural children’s books! “Children’s reading and play advocates Valarie Budayr from Jump Into a Book and Mia Wenjen from Pragmatic Mom have teamed up to create an ambitious (and much needed) national event.”…
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What's A Librarian To Do?
Our high school began a Literacy Night last year to promote the clubs, programs and projects that the high school students are involved in. I was asked to be a speaker last year because of my blog, (I should have known the kids know much more about social media that…
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Diwali Celebration
We had a HUGE crowd to celebrate Diwali last night! We have a large Indian population in our community and although Diwali is celebrated in different ways (across India), we had a wonderful time last night! For our youngest patrons we hosted a brief storytime with a beautiful Diwali book The…
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We Need Diverse Books
I was talking with a patron who was telling me a story of their 4-year old daughter. The little girls is Black, Hispanic and White, but sadly doesn’t see many others in her small community that look like her. She has begun asking her mom questions about the way she looks after…
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Fun Friday Program – Tangram Puzzles
In the school district where I work the elementary school students have a half day on the second Friday of every month. Over winter break, I decided that this would be a perfect time to create a program for parents to bring their kids to the library! Last month, our theme…
