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,...
by Leah Langby | Jan 15, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Last spring, I posted a few times about the great new resource from the Public Library Association and the Global Family Research Project–a tool kit and a call to action for libraries to engage with families. There are some really terrific and practical...
by Leah Langby | Jan 5, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Jacqueline Woodson is the new Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, a position appointed by the Librarian of Congress (with input from librarians, booksellers, educators, and children’s literature experts). I am so excited to see what she does...
by Leah Langby | Dec 19, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo credit: PexelsThe Atlantic Monthly published an article this fall by Jean Twenge, author of the book iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy–And Completely Unprepared for Adulthood (and...
by Leah Langby | Dec 18, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Use your toolbox! (image from Pixabay)Remember when we used to get a thick juicy manual full of lots of pages, helping us figure out what to do for the summer library program? Those days are not actually gone, the pages are just digital now. I sent...
