by Leah Langby | Mar 2, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Anne Hamland, the youth services consultant for Wisconsin Valley Library Service, now works in the same office as me. I can’t tell you how exciting it is for me to work in the same building with someone else who is thinking about services to youth! ...
by Leah Langby | Mar 1, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image courtesy of Pixabay Wow! CBS News did a short segment on African American storytelling with various artists of great renown, and 3 of the people they interviewed are authors of award-winning books for youth! Check it out and see Jason Reynolds, Representative...
by Leah Langby | Feb 28, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks so much to the new youth services/programming librarian at Ellsworth, Elise Gregory, for this guest post filled with easy-to-replicate and fun ideas.I’ve been making little grab bags with any of my left-over materials from Preschool Storytime. I also...
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...
