Kids participating in after school activities in Bloomer used hand prints to help Kathy (the children’s librarian) create a hungry caterpillar collage for the wall in the children’s room. The collage has transformed the room with its colorful presence, and the kids who helped are over the moon to have contributed to the atmosphere in such a positive way.
Thanks so much to Shelly Collins Fuerbringer from the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire for these inspiring ideas! This summer we offered a CD weaving project with the idea of stringing all the finished products together to create a beautiful wall...
I got an email from the Children's Book Council today that you might want to consider: The Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader are offering a new “Keep Bans Off Our Books” kit for librarians, teachers, and booksellers in support of the right to free...
It's the middle of the summer, a time when many libraires are in the thick of increased programming, larger numbers of kids and teens in the building, and when general mayhem and chaos is high! In case you are re-thinking things, as many people do in the middle of...