by Leah Langby | Feb 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
Image from PixabayThanks to Maria Potvin from Frederic for this guest post!In our area, we have a small, one-room school which serves our Amish community. Every couple weeks I bring a new bin of books. Recently, when I pulled up to the school, I interrupted a snowball...
by Leah Langby | Feb 26, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Add caption Many thanks to Claire Parrish of the Rice Lake Public Library for writing this guest blog post!Last fall, RLPL was approached by the Rice Lake School District about starting the Imagination Library program...
by Leah Langby | Feb 22, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Jenna Gilles-Turner, who attended the Hubb’s Children’s Literature Conference this month and submitted this reflection on her experience. I attended the 26th annual Hubb’s Children’s Literature Conference at St. Thomas University...
by Leah Langby | Feb 21, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image from PixabayIn the midst of feeling sad and worried and upset about all sorts of things going on in our world, the thing that is making me feel the best is seeing and hearing the teens in Parkland, Florida. These teens are taking their grief and the trauma...
by Leah Langby | Feb 15, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image from PixabayThere are so many upsetting and terrifying things going on in the world. Yesterday’s school shooting weighs heavily on us all. Discussions of sexual harassment by admired authors and illustrators are disheartening. ...
by Leah Langby | Feb 12, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
The 2018 American Library Association Youth Media Awards were announced this morning! For those of you who weren’t waiting on tenterhooks and watching the announcements live streaming or monitoring your twitter feed, here’s a complete list. I...
by Leah Langby | Feb 8, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
I think it would be cool to share some book love on this blog. And some idea love. So please send me a brief review of a favorite book or a quick story about an idea you have or a super cool program you had, or a really great thing a kid said and...
by Leah Langby | Feb 6, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy is happy to announce the 2018 CLEL Bell Picture Book Awards for Early Literacy! The five winning books consist of one title in each of five categories selected from a shortlist of 25 titles. Each category represents an early...
by Leah Langby | Jan 31, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image from PixabayThere’s been a lot of press recently about the new Facebook Messenger Kids app that Facebook rolled out in early December of last year. Messenger Kids is designed for kids as young as six (or even younger) to use social media to connect...
by Leah Langby | Jan 24, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Okay, folks, if you haven’t ever had the opportunity to hear the remarkable author Jason Reynolds speak before (and also if you have had the opportunity!), watch him mesmerize Trevor Noah on The Daily Show in a clip from last night. Wow! So much to...
by Leah Langby | Jan 19, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
A few years back, IFLS did a big project trying to get ourselves up to speed on new media, and how to help parents navigate the overwhelming avalanche of information and products. One of the things we did was hold a workshop on the topic with a morning...
by Leah Langby | Jan 17, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
One of the things I hear most often from librarians is that they are desperate for great ideas about teen programming, especially great ideas that won’t break the budget. As part of the Youth Services Track of the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference,...
