Shelf Lookout: Amelia Bedelia’s First Library Card
The next installment of the Amelia Bedelia’s Firsts (is that the official name of the series?) series is due out this spring. What mischief and misinterpretations can occur on Amelia’s class trip to...
View ArticleShelf Lookout: Percy Jackson & the Sea of Monsters (Graphic Novel)
The five book series may be complete, but Percy Jackson and the Olympians have a lot of life left. While the first adaptation into graphic novel format (The Lightning Thief) was released almost three...
View ArticleCharacter on Display: Mo Willems’ Pigeon
This year is the ten year anniversary of Mo Willems’ first Pigeon book, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and we recently celebrated at the library! We head a great turnout. Kids really love the...
View ArticlePicture Book of the Week: Mousetronaut
Mousetronaut claims to be a partially true story. But I don’t believe a word of this fictional account. Everyone knows that if mice trained to be astronauts, and one of those mice was chosen to go on a...
View ArticleShelf Lookout: Monster Needs a Costume
Rhyming picture book alert!!! This debut picture book from Paul Czajak is the first in the Monster & Me series. In Monster Needs a Costume, as Halloween approaches, Monster needs a costume (of...
View ArticlePicture Book of the Week: Take Care, Good Knight
I sent my minions (read: children) through the stacks to find a book to take home, and they brought me Take Care, Good Knight, by Shelley Moore Thomas with pictures by Paul Meisel. For a first crack at...
View ArticleTheme of the Week: Back to School
Back to school time is almost here! Some children will be going back for another year and some will be starting for the first time. Either way, the first day of school often brings up feelings of...
View ArticlePicture Book of the Week: Monster Needs a Costume
Remember Fancy Nancy? Remember how it started with some hardcover picture books, then branched out to easy readers, sticker books, coloring books, and a series of chapter book mysteries? Do you...
View ArticlePicture Book of the Week: Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon, by Patty Lovell will give anyone the confidence to be proud of who they are. Molly Lou Melon, is short, bucktoothed, and sounds funny, but her grandmother always told her...
View ArticleStory Time: Hibernation
This is how we celebrated the hibernation season at storytime! ζζζζζζζζζζζζζζζζζζζζ First, we sang our greeting song, Here, Here sung to the tune of Skip to My Lou. Here, Here We’re all here Here, Here...
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