Storytime Planning!
It’s that time of year — new schedules and planning, new notebooks and books, new activities, and priorities … and a new storytime!
Kevin Hawkes
Me, All Alone, Reading This Book
Sometimes, the illustrations are wonderful but the language is captivating. You know how you read a picture book and you can’t decide which part to focus on? Should you look at the picture first? Should you read the story because it’s the thread that’s pulling you through?
Well, when you read “He was a long-leggedy man with a wide, wide hat and a beard in a circle around his head.… more
Richard Jackson
We are honored to interview the highly respected Richard Jackson, who is on to his next career as a writer. His most recently published book is all ears, all eyes, a lush and irresistible read-aloud book, illustrated by Katherine Tillitson (Simon & Schuster). We thought we’d take the opportunity to talk with him about the progression from his editorial career to his writing career and the four books he has written.… more
Books about Chickens
Whether a chicken makes you cluck, BAWK! or cheep-cheep-cheep, books about chickens make us laugh. We may not have been introduced to a chicken in real life but, trust me, some people keep them as egg-laying wonders and other people keep them as pets. These fowl have been around in many colors, types, and breeds in most countries in the world … and quite recently they have become the subject of many books.
… more Picture Books and Dementia
by Jenny Barlow
We could reach her through nursery rhymes.
She regularly sat in the living room, wrapped in a blanket in her wheelchair. To people who don’t understand, she would seem withered, vacant, even loose in the joints, and maybe very shabby. But we stroked her palsied hands and gently called her name. On occasion, she’d open her eyes.… more
Picture Books and Dementia
by Jenny Barlow
We could reach her through nursery rhymes.
She regularly sat in the living room, wrapped in a blanket in her wheelchair. To people who don’t understand, she would seem withered, vacant, even loose in the joints, and maybe very shabby. But we stroked her palsied hands and gently called her name. On occasion, she’d open her eyes.… more
Library Lion
by Melanie Heuiser Hill
I recently read about a series of get-to-know-you games to play with kids. One suggested making a list of hard and fast rules that everyone could agree to — a series of sensible prohibitions, perhaps — and then taking turns thinking of the exceptions to those rules.
RULE: No running in the hallways. EXCEPTION: Run if the building is on fire.… more