Tag: books
member name: Dannielle S.
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April 26, 2007 12:09 AM EDT --
Why not spend part of Arbor Day sharing a great tree-centered book with your favorite child(ren)? Trees figure into a multitude of children's books, from the Magic Treehouse series by Mary Osborne . . .
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June 18, 2008 12:22 AM EDT --
One of the best-known and best-loved children's books ever published is Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon , which has been translated and parodied countless times but remains forever beloved . . .
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July 24, 2006 10:53 PM EDT --
This evening, I received a lovely thank-you message from Vina Byrne, a librarian at William B. Ogden Free Library in Walton, NY. Vina has created many illustrative scrapbooks on events and programs . . .
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August 05, 2009 09:45 PM EDT --
The main branch of the Louisville (Kentucky) Free Public Library has been hit hard by Tuesday's torrential downpour. You can read about it HERE .
I know that there are marvelous people . . .
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January 04, 2007 09:42 AM EST --
Review of Sergio Ruzzier's The Room of Wonders.
Pius Pelosi, the rat and hero of The Room of Wonders, collects many delightful things he discovers in the course of his daily routine: shiny keys, . . .
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November 08, 2006 07:11 PM EST --
I am not a librarian, although I am often mistaken for one because I work in a library. Yes, I love libraries, and books, and reading, and excellent illustrations, but I do not hold a Masters . . .
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January 07, 2007 08:01 PM EST --
Our house is filled with books. There isn't a room that doesn't contain an overflowing bookshelf or several boxfuls or stacks of books, and in the crawlspaces there are still more boxes that . . .
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August 27, 2006 03:31 PM EDT --
In August 2006, Hope Grietzer and I presented our program Fiddling with Books at the library in Spencer, New York, as part of their Summer Reading Program.
Spencer is a tiny village on Route . . .
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December 07, 2008 06:49 PM EST --
Teen readers are a tough audience, and these books are not for everyone, but you deserve a chance to consider them and see if they fit your particular adolescent.
Kate Thompson wasn't a familiar . . .
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January 26, 2008 08:25 PM EST --
Hope and I drove out to the William B. Ogden Library in Walton, NY, this afternoon to present our Fiddling with Books program. Some folks here might recall that this is the library that lost 12,000 . . .
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May 27, 2007 08:41 AM EDT --
Sooner or later, whether we're in fifth grade or grad school, we will be assigned to do a research paper for someone. Perhaps it is the authority we have attached to the term "research" . . .
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July 22, 2006 09:36 PM EDT --
The Gather community has rallied to support the William B. Ogden Library in Walton, NY, as it struggles to rebuild from the flooding this past June. In return, I thought everyone here might enjoy . . .
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May 02, 2007 03:07 PM EDT --
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Steve Breen has created one of the most charming, delightful frog adventures since Mercer Mayer’s series featuring the Boy and His Frog. In Stick, we meet . . .
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February 09, 2007 10:54 PM EST --
Originally published in Spanish as Los Tres Erizos , in 2003, The Three Hedgehogs is a charming story of unexpected opportunity, frightening accusation, and heroic resolution in five languages. . . .
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