by Leah Langby | Jun 30, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Folks at the Pepin Library had fun with the Bassmeister this summer, with puppets, ventriloquism, illusions, visual props, and plenty of humorous but important safety tips. About 50 people attended an indoor picnic and the show–pretty terrific turnout for...
by Leah Langby | Jun 15, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
It is time for this week’s installment about The Wakanheza Projectâ„¢, and the principle we will explore today is powerlessness. According to The Wakanheza Project Agency, Business and Community Organizing Guide:”The Initiative’s violence prevention...
by Leah Langby | Jun 13, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many of you have probably already heard about the article in the Wall Street Journal last week by Meghan Cox Gurdon, Darkness Too Visible. It seems that every few years, there is an influential op-ed piece that decries the horrors of current YA literature, and this...
by Leah Langby | Jun 9, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Part 3 of the list of websites shared by Rhonda Puntney (thanks, Rhonda!) MISCELLANEOUS Magnificent Maps http://www.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/ The British Library has a few maps in its collection, and it is an institution that is well-positioned to create an exhibition...
by Leah Langby | Jun 2, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks again to Rhonda Puntney from the Lakeshores and Mid-Wisconsin Library Systems. Her compilation of websites related to the Summer Library Program theme is terrific! Here is part 2: Literature and Bibliograhies and Cultures and Customs. LITERATURE...
by Leah Langby | Jun 1, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Wow, are we ever lucky we live in a state where folks are so good at sharing! The following is the first part of a webliography sites related to One World, Many Stories. They were compiled by Rhonda Puntney (Lakeshores Library System and Mid-Wisconsin Federated...