Crocodiles! Snakes, and Lizards! Oh my! Today we learned about creeping, crawling reptiles. Our first book this morning was: How to Hide a Crocodile and […]
Better than Fiction: Unusual and Inspiring Travel Tales
Reading a compilation of travel essays by authors Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Isabel Allende, Frances Mayes and Pico Iyer sounds […]
In and Out of Capes: My Superhero Reading List
Superheroes are breaking out of comics and landing in prose short stories and novels. Below is a reading list of superhero and super-villain books — […]
Snowmen
Who doesn’t love a roly-poly snowman? Today we read books about snowmen and the children told me all about the snowmen they built this winter. […]
The Orchardist
I am reading The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin. Not gonna sugar-coat it, and as more than one review I’ve read about it says, it is “somber.” This is Coplin’s first novel […]
Bees & Honey
BUZZZZZZ! BUZZZZZ! What’s that sound? The sound of happy bees flying around! Today we buzzed around the beehive and read books about busy bees and […]
Heights Libraries conducting community survey to improve services
To ensure that it can give the Cleveland Heights-University Heights community the best possible services in the coming years, Heights Libraries will be conducting a […]
A Reading Life
If you’re reading a blog about books, you’re probably one of us: a habitual reader. Your life is measured out in pages rather than coffee […]
So You Want to be a Writer: A Book List
These days it seems that everyone wants to be a writer. Everyone has a book in them but no one know how to go about […]
Tracks in the Snow
Tracks in the snow, tracks in the snow… Who made the tracks? Where do they go? Books: “Who’s Been Here? A Tale in Tracks” by […]