by Leah Langby | Feb 22, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
From the Loveland Public LibraryWe all know that it can be challenging to ask for help about sensitive issues, especially for teens. The zit on their forehead feels and like a strobe light to them, and calling extra attention to it by asking for books or...
by Leah Langby | Feb 17, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
For years, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (a resource that Wisconsin is proud to claim) has been keeping track of the numbers of books published by or about people of color and American Indian/First Nations people. In the past few years, when...
by Leah Langby | Feb 16, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Another Facebook goodie, this time from an IFLS librarian with an extensive and impressive early childhood background, Jenna Gilles-Turner. I found this article about how to support and develop kids’ vocabularies and abilities to express themselves in one...
by Leah Langby | Feb 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
image of someone climbing a wall from PixabaySometimes I end up spending more time on Facebook than I intend to, and often it leaves me feeling yuckier than before I started. BUT. Sometimes I find an article that sort of rocks my world, and today I found...
by Leah Langby | Feb 14, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
A preschooler develops fine-motor skills and self-expression at the same time in Menomonie!Hennepin County (MN) Library produced a 13-minute, beautiful video for parents to help them understand ways to support early literacy as they talk, sing, read, write, and play...
by Leah Langby | Feb 13, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Laughing Evolution. Flickr, Petras Gagilas You’ve probably read about it from another source, but sometimes I have to see things many times before I follow up, so I’m just making sure! Many librarians in IFLS-Land participated in a whole series of...
by Leah Langby | Feb 10, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
I think most all of us would agree that it is crucial to share books with kids that reflect the diversity of our world. Even when we live in mostly homogeneous areas, it is vitally important to share books and materials that offer positive and regular images of...
by Leah Langby | Feb 9, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids, Uncategorized
Cardboard. Cats optional.The other day Kim, the youth services librarian in Clear Lake, and I were chatting about programs using cardboard to build cool things. I was reminded of Caine’s Arcade, a charming film about a kid who made a whole arcade out...
by Leah Langby | Feb 1, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Learning new things is exciting, and it is even more exciting when you know those things will help you provide better service to the folks in your community. And when you can get to do it for free? Even better! Check out the following opportunity:As...
by Leah Langby | Jan 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Jerissa Koenig for this guest post!The Amery Area Public Library installed two new learning spaces in the children’s room in January, 2017. The first is the Baby/Toddler Zone, which includes a playful area rug, seating for adults, and a shelving unit that...
by Leah Langby | Jan 20, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
The Cooperative Children’s Book Center announced the Charlotte Zolotow Book Awards today, recognizing picture books with distinguished writing:Carole Boston Weatherford is the winner of the 2017 Charlotte Zolotow Award for Freedom in Congo Square (illustrated by...
by Leah Langby | Jan 19, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Samantha Carpenter for this guest post:Mr. Potato Head has been a very popular magnet board activity at LEPMPL the past two months! Every time I walk by, he looks different. There’s something about this particular configuration . . . that accurately reflects...
