Part of getting ready for Summer Reading Club this year has been going out and into the schools to tell kids about the program and (hopefully) get them excited about it. As time has allowed, we have also read stories and done booktalks. Here's a...
Fun with ROY G. BIV program! We started with White Rabbit's Color Book, then did two experiments with color, guessing what would happen, and seeing what really happened. The first photo is three Skittle candies dropped into water. First the ink washed off and stayed...
This is Jerome, the library gnome. He has been hiding around the Children's Room this summer as part of the 'Dig Into Reading' theme. Kids who find Jerome tell a library staffer, then get a prize from the treasure chest. A lot of kids have...
Hopefully you know about Summer Reading Club, that wild, busy, fun time for the library. But what about May? In the Children's Room we spend May helping people as always, but also cleaning out closets (maybe!) and the big May thing…...
What's your favorite holiday book to read as a family? Need some ideas for holiday books to read together?Three of everyone's favorite children's room staff members have compiled their five favorite holiday books to read with families or children. Check out Laura's, Jan's, and Brenda's...
Every Child is an Artist!There’s an art wall by the project table in the Children’s Room, where kids can always find supplies to sit down and make something creative. They can take their projects home, leave them to display, or make two, one to take...
I finally got around to reading the classic science fiction novel Ender’s Game. In the book, young Ender Wiggin is taken off-planet to a military training school for highly gifted children. At the school he participates in mock battles in the zero gravity Battle Room....
There are a lot of new picture books every year, and competition for sales is intense. Many new picture books are really written to appeal to adults who shop for books, and they are sophisticated, full of references to other things and jokes that kids...
If you have been in the Children's Room lately, you probably had to walk around our shiny new display, the Gold Patchouli each: by with get a prescription for reglan otherwise lubricants sildenafil 50 mg was and from BUYER...
Some very plain books have wonderful, exciting stories inside. That’s why we say "Never judge a book by the cover." It’s true of people too, that’s why we say "Still waters run deep."But let’s face it, when it comes to picking library books, what the...
