Join us on Facebook for our first-ever online book club! Each month we'll vote on a book to read and discuss within our Facebook Group. We know it isn't always possible to get together in-person to discuss books...
Did you know that November has been declared Picture Book Month? This is great news here in the Children's Room because we love picture books of all types. Here are a few of my personal favorites—feel free to chime in with yours!Caps for Sale by...
Happy Banned Books Week!One challenged title that’s near and dear to my heart is Looking for Alaska by John Green. Alaska follows Miles Halter as he starts his junior year at Culver Creek Preparatory School. For the first time Miles has friends, and life after...
A Wrinkle in Time won the Newbery Medal in 1963. It is a book filled with magic, mystery, and adventure, but the very core of it is the simple quest of a girl wanting nothing more than to find her father- a scientist who disappears...
Banned Books Week: 9/30 through 10/6This week marks the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week across the country. Libraries, Bookstores, Journalists, and Book Lovers all join together to celebrate the freedom to read whatever you want! Did you know that there have been over 10,000...
There’s nothing like the End. Pestilence. Famine. War. Rumors of the war. I love a good apocalypse story (this is probably a character defect) and fortunately, the Library indulges my curiosity. Here are some good reads along those lines.Chalcot Crescent by Fay WeldonSet in present...
I love libraries. I have always loved libraries and have spent most of my like in them. My earliest recollection of libraries was in elementary school where I read every biography in the Childhood of Famous Americans series. In junior high I spent my lunch time...
Jan recently wrote about classic children’s tales and reading to your kids. While I totally agree with her about story time with children should be non-ironic, I personally love children’s picture books that have hidden adult meanings, or children’s-style picture books written for adults. Here...
Since we're already over halfway through 2012 (and HOW did that happen?), I thought I'd talk a little bit about the books I've enjoyed so far this year. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein: I find it difficult to talk rationally about this...
