11
Feb
Chinese New Year Storytime
新年快樂 Happy Chinese New Year! The most important Chinese holiday for the year, the Lunar New Year, started yesterday and will go on for the next 15 days. I have an extreme fondness of Chinese holidays and have many Chinese parents and families that regularly attend Sunday storytime, so having a Chinese New Year storytime […]
7
Feb
Throwback Thursday: Blue Moose
Blue Moose by Daniel Manus Pinkwater Find it at: Your library | Amazon Published: Dodd, Mead, & Company 1975 As you may or may not know, L’s favorite animal (at least for now) is a moose. So when I spotted this old Daniel Manus Pinkwater title for a $1 at our library’s local book sale […]
6
Feb
Chickadee
Chickadee by Louise Erdrich Find it at: Your library | Amazon | IndieBound Published: HarperCollins (August 21, 2012) Recommend Reading Age: 8 & up In a nutshell: I have not yet had the privilege to read all the books of Louise Erdrich’s Birchbark House Series, but I did have the pleasure of reading the series’ […]
5
Feb
Reading Together
***Reading Together is a sampling of books I’m currently reading aloud to L, my toddler daughter. Since I work in the children’s room of a public library, I’m always bringing home stacks and stacks of books to share together. Old and new. These are our favorites. Some of which have been read over and over […]
21
Jan
I Have a Dream
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr, illustrated by Kadir Nelson Find it at: Your library | Amazon| Indiebound Published: Schwartz & Wade an imprint of Random House Children’s Books; Har/Com edition (October 9, 2012) Recommended Reading Age: All ages In a nutshell: Today is a day we honor and remember one of […]
20
Jan
You Are Stardust
You Are Stardust by Elin Kelsy, artwork by Soyeon Kim Find it at: Your Library | Amazon | Indiebound Published: Owlkids Books (September 11, 2012) Recommended Reading Age: 4 & up In a nutshell: You Are Stardust explores the cosmological concept that essentially everything in the universe came from stardust, a concept simplified through […]
9
Jan
Reading Together
***Reading Together is a sampling of picture books I’m currently reading aloud to L, my toddler daughter. Since I work in the children’s room of a public library, I’m always bringing home stacks and stacks of books to share together. Old and new. These are our favorites. Some of which have been read over and […]
3
Jan
Throwback Thursday: Numbears
Numbears: A Counting Book By Kathleen Hague, Illustrated by Michael Hague Find it at: Your Library | Amazon | Indiebound Published: Henry Holt and Co. an imprint of Macmillian (May 1986) My husband was recently having a conversation with his twin sister about a book that has plagued them since early childhood: Numbears: A Counting […]
2
Jan
Mrs. Noodlekugel
Mrs. Noodlekugel By Daniel Pinkwater, Illustrated by Adam Stower Find it at: Your Library | Amazon | Indiebound Published: Candlewick (April 24, 2012) Recommended reading age: 5-10 In a nutshell: Brother and sister, Nick and Maxine, find that if they stand in just the right place on their dresser looking out of their apartment down […]
31
Dec
One Times Square
One Times Square: A Century of Change at the Crossroads of the World Written and Illustrated by Joe McKendry Find it at: Your Library | Amazon | Indiebound Published: David R Godine; First edition (May 28, 2012) Recommended reading age: 8 & up In a nutshell: In a matter of hours, the nation will tune […]
