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...