by Leah Langby | Mar 11, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Check these out–encourage kids to participate, or build some programs around these 2 children’s choice awards. If you do, let me know! The Children’s Choice Book Awards voting will open on Monday, March 14th. The downloadable ballot will be available here...
by Leah Langby | Mar 9, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
YALSA and Figment have teamed up for an awesome contest in celebration of Teen Tech Week! Teens can write a 750-word essay on how to use a made-up steampunk apparatus on Figment and win an e-reader. Sourcebooks Inc. and Ty Drago, author and publisher of the new The...
by Leah Langby | Mar 8, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Kids dancing at Hudson Beach Party What do you do when school is out in your community? In Hudson, youth services staff Carol Hudson and Mary Davis, along with 5 adult and 8 teen volunteers, offered a fun day last month. This was the first time for them, and they were...
by Leah Langby | Mar 4, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Clip Art from the CSLP manual, all rights reserved.Clip Art: I got a call today from a librarian who was having trouble with the CSLP clip art (the disc that comes in your manual). This year, the disc is a DVD, because they put some super-cool videos on them. If you...
by Leah Langby | Mar 3, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
I got this from the blog hosted by the Youth Services Section of the Wisconsin Library Association. Bring the excitement of MARTHA SPEAKS to your library! The MARTHA SPEAKS Read-Aloud Book Club creates a fun environment for young kids to read and talk about books, and...
by Leah Langby | Mar 2, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Colleen Crowley, the children’s librarian at the Chippewa Falls Public Library, sent a note about a great project they are doing in Chippewa Falls:Librarians do not need to be experts at scientific theory to guide scientific inquiry with children. Opportunities...
