Please join us for our Zoom meeting this Friday, July 10, 2020, 10-11:30am! We will present our new reviews of Outstanding titles, and then discuss how are libraries are responding to the current situation. Email [continue reading]
Egypt Storytime – Revised
Egypt – revised Over the past several months, we have been updating our Storytime themes on various countries around the world; we will conclude this theme with this column. The 2020 CSLP Reads summer reading [continue reading]
Echo Mountain Review
Wolk, Lauren. Echo Mountain. Fiction. Dutton, 04/2020. 356pp. $17.99. 978-0-525-55556-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-7. Twelve-year-old Ellie has adjusted to the life changes associated with moving from town to the mountains in Maine during the Depression, but [continue reading]
Fourth of July Storytime – Revised
In celebration of Independence Day, offer a family storytime before the holiday. Have the children march around the library to replicate many of the parades featured in these stories. For a craft project, make these [continue reading]
Five Nights at Freddy’s Read-Alikes
READ-ALIKES Five Nights at Freddy’s by Scott Cawthon Coville, Bruce. Odds Are Good: An Oddly Enough and Odder Than Ever Omnibus. Coville, Bruce. Odder Than Ever: Stories. Coville, Bruce. Oddest of All. Hahn, Mary Downing. [continue reading]
Gold Rush Girl Review
Avi. Gold Rush Girl. Fiction. Candlewick, 03/2020. 306pp. $17.99. 978-1-5362-0679-1. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-8. Tory recounts her experience in San Francisco, where she, her father, and her younger brother have relocated from Rhode Island to seek [continue reading]
The One and Only Ivan Read-Alikes
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate Appelt, Kathi. Keeper. Appelt, Kathi. The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp. Applegate, Katherine. Home of the Brave. Applegate, Katherine. The One and Only Bob. [continue reading]
Board Book Round-up, Part III
Last Minute Additions Koster, Amy Sky. Egg. Illus. by Lisel Jan Ashlock. Creative Editions, 02/2020. [16p.] $9.99. 978-1568463513. In this beautifully illustrated board book, rhyming couplets describe the eggs in each spread: “Blue [continue reading]