Posting about an author who spends a week at an airport may scare people away after all the airport shutdowns and plane cancellations of the past week. But, […]
Mittens
For this week’s winter theme, I planned a storytime around Jim Aylesworth’s 2009 adaptation of the folktale “The Mitten”. I love that a version of […]
Wayne Dyer’s “Change Your Thoughts–Change Your Life”: A Powerful Meditation on the Tao
Like Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, Dyer’s most recent book focuses frequently on moving out of the ego-mind, the striving for more things, more dominance, […]
‘Tis the Season
(Photo by Friedrich Bohringer from Wikimedia Commons) Each year as the winter holidays approach I enjoy ‘seasonal reading’—books set in winter and/or at holiday time. I […]
Snow
This week was an official “snow day,” so what better time to make a post on a story time inspired by the white fluffy stuff. […]
And the “winner” is…
Chalk, by Bill Thompson! I was recently part of a mock Caldecott election with library science graduate students. We looked at dozens and dozens of […]
Sometimes Authors Can’t Go Home Again
Many thriller readers are familiar with Dennis Lehane’s novels, Shutter Island and Gone, Baby, Gone, which were both turned into blockbuster movies. But before that acclaim, his first book, […]
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Oh…my…gawwwd this is super precious! Amos McGee, a friendly, elderly zookeeper has the same routine every day. He gets dressed, has his oatmeal and tea, […]
Shadow, by Suzy Lee
There are no words… Seriously there are no words in this book…well…okay if you want to get technical there are three words. The rest is […]
Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson
This new picture book is a biography of Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion. Jack grew up in Texas and was the child […]
