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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Language Learning
As we continue to travel through the alphabet, we taking the chance to travel around the world as well with an introduction to language learning in a variety of languages, plus being able to better understand the importance of language both verbal and nonverbal as well! Studies show that kids…
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Director’s Thoughts – 3/19/25
I try very hard to steer clear of politics on this blog, rather focusing my energy on providing children’s book choices for kids of all ages and reading levels. And today’s post wasn’t going to be political, until President Trump signed more executive orders on Friday night and did so…
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Director’s Thoughts – 2/28/25
When I started as a director nine years, I felt strongly that we needed to have one day where most of the staff could come together to learn about the overall vision of the library, work on projects, and spend time together. It’s difficult to share information (I know, I’m…
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Director’s Thoughts – 1/17/24
Today I want to talk about trying new things. It’s still the beginning of the year and I thought that it made sense about making changes at a time when a lot of people are resetting for a new year with resolutions, words of the year, and goal setting. Librarians…
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Director’s Thoughts – 12/13/24
I’d have to say one of favorite things about working in a library is selecting new books for the collection. It’s a lot of fun unboxing new books and checking out titles that get automatically added to my TBR list. But, coming in a very close second is the opposite…
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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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Top Ten Tuesday: Oldest Books On My TBR
I don’t keep a very active TBR or to be read list because inherently I ignore the list and just grab whatever strikes my fancy and whatever is available when I’m ready for my next book. But, I was able to scrounge up ten books on my shelves at home…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Destination Titles
Some Top Ten Tuesday themes are simple to pull together and I know exactly what titles I’m going to pull for the list. While others, like this one are a little more difficult to pull together. I ended up browsing through my Goodreads account to pull together ten middle grade…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Trees on the Cover
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was a little open in terms of what we could choose to do. All we needed to do was pick something that graced the cover of books. I chose trees because there is a HUGE number of books with trees on the cover as they…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 2024 Middle Grade Horror
It’s a Halloween Freebie week for Top Ten Tuesday! And today I’m sharing middle grad horror books that have been published this year. Which also means that I haven’t read any of these books because I’m a complete scaredy-cat in terms of reading scary books and watching scary movies. I…
