by Leah Langby | Sep 13, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
As part of the Chippewa Valley Book Festival, local writers will be holding wonderful sounding workshops for young writers at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire. Jessi Peterson is one of the presenters for the workshop for 3-5...
by Leah Langby | Sep 12, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Sorry for the absence of blog posts, I’ve been out of the office more than in for the past few weeks, taking part in some terrific opportunities (the Youth Services Institute, Prepare Training to learn how to defuse challenging situations, and dropping my...
by Leah Langby | Aug 22, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
The booklists and other resources have been released for 2017-2018 Read On Wisconsin books. If you don’t already know about it, Read On Wisconsin provides book discussion resources and carefully selected books for several age groups each month. If...
by Leah Langby | Aug 17, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Teens’ Top Ten, sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association, allows teens from across the country to vote for their top three favorite recent books from a list created by other teens. This is a great way to encourage teens in your area to...
by Leah Langby | Aug 9, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you get two creative people together who are interested in thinking outside the box about ways to meet community needs, you just never know where you’ll end up. Patti Becker and Sue Queiser at Barron have been looking at the way the community uses the...
by Leah Langby | Aug 2, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
I heard from a reliable source (my own teen) that the interactive teen displays in Menomonie are the bomb. Abby Seymour, the teen librarian, shared some of her recent displays:The first display takes the intriguing first line of a YA book was on the front, with...
