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Build a stand, Spark a dream!
This year, the library is partnering with the Boys and Girls Club to help promote Lemonade Day Bloomington. Lemonade Day brings the community together to experience entrepreneurship, promote...
View ArticleTesting, Testing, Testing...
ISBN: 9780689845154 It’s test time again for Indiana students. Children in grades 3-8 are taking theIndiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress Plus (ISTEP+) tests to measure student...
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Things That Go
ISBN: 9780061958090 I anticipated needing to learn many new things as a new parent, but when the time came, I was wholly unprepared to engage in “truck talk” with my toddler. Whether my inadequacy was...
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Give Children Words to Love...
ISBN: 0394950100 “Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.” -...
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Children's Book Week, Then and Now
To celebrate Children’s Book Week this year, we’re reflecting on some of the favorite books we read as kids. We may not remember all the details of stories read decades ago, but there are images,...
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The Right to Read and Banned Books
Banned Books Week (September 21-27th), the annual celebration of the freedom to read, is coming to a close! All across the country, individuals, libraries, schools and bookstores have been confronting...
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Saying Goodbye to Dear Friends
For weeks now, I have been carrying around two new picturebooks about friendship. The stories serve as bookends - one describing a burgeoning friendship; the second depicting not an ending of a...
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The Caldecotts are Coming! 2015 Edition
It's awards season! And in the world of Children's Literature that means it's time for the American Library Association to announce the most prestigious awards of the year. Early tomorrow morning a few...
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We Need Diverse Books
"If someone had been fussing with meto read like my sister, I might have missedthe picture book filled with brown people, more brown people than I'd ever seen in a book before. The little boy's name...
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Pasta Painting!
Here in the Children’s area, I have the privilege of working with caregivers, parents, and children almost every Tuesday at a program called Little Makers. This is an arts-based program where we strive...
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Week of the Young Child, April 12-18
Join us at the Children's Expo on Sunday, April 12 as we kick off Week of the Young Child with the South Central Chapter of the Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children and other...
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Nature Journals and Binoculars
This week in our preschool arts program, Little Makers, we did two projects to help us celebrate and appreciate nature for Earth Day! First, we created nature journals by punching holes into paper and...
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Find Your Superpower at the Library!
A library is a place for collecting information and cataloging factual knowledge, but it is ooooh so much more. Your public library also is a place of wonder and discovery, a place to play and create;...
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Little Makers Make - Seed Bombs!
Summer is a great time to get outside and get your hands dirty. We did just that at our Generations Gardening Together program in May and again, earlier this month, at Little Makers. Ginny and friends...
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
ISBN: 9780803741232 "I would like for young people to know that each day of your life is a journey into history and that you are making that history. And you have the ability to change something each...
View ArticleAsk Me: Bonding with Books and Stories
ISBN: 9780547733944 "Truly listening to someone reminds them that their lives matter; and reminds us all of what matters most."The statement above is included in a short video produced by StoryCorps...
View ArticleVoice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 0763665312 For a powerful and poetic glimpse into the life of a real-life American civil rights hero, look no further than Voice of Freedom, a 2016 Caldecott Honor book written by Carole Boston...
View ArticleNnewts: Escape from the Lizzarks by Doug TenNapel
ISBN: 9780545676472 A war between amphibians and lizards, with humor, magic, and villains with mustaches. All of these elements can be found in NNewts, which introduces readers to a new series...
View ArticleRed's Planet by Eddie Pittman
ISBN: 9781419719073 Fans of Zita the Space Girl will feel right at home in this charming graphic novel. While the bulk of the story takes place in space, featuring aliens, strange planets, and the...
View ArticleAwkward by Svetlana Chmakova
ISBN: 9780316381321 Fans of Sisters, Roller Girl, and El Deafo will feel right at home in this story. A coming-of-age tale that deals realistically with bullying, anxiety, school drama, friendship,...
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