Due to the rave reviews of my colleagues, I decided to follow the massive librarian/parent following behind Drive-In Movies at the library--for the littlest hands. You can find other examples bathing the internet in a sort of brownish, boxy glow here, here, here, here, and here, and probably here. Sweet corrugated biscuits, let's get down… Continue reading Boxes at the ready, get set, GO!
Author: librarybonanza
Fairy Good Tales: Jack and the Beanstalk
Fee fi fo fum I smell the blood of an Englishman Be he alive or be he dead I'll grind his bones to make my bread Anger issues, amirite? Well, our trusty Jack (who just can't stay out of fairytales and rhymes) comes to reclaim his rightful things that were once his father's. Jack and… Continue reading Fairy Good Tales: Jack and the Beanstalk
Patrons’ Favorite Apps
Tallying use on iPads is a little tricky. While you can see what apps have been used by double tapping the home button, each app only shows up once. Let's say a child opens Rocket Reads. It puts itself in the "opened apps" cue. If that child opens up other apps and then returns back… Continue reading Patrons’ Favorite Apps
Fairy Good Tales: The Ugly Duckling
The mother duck waited and waited until finally the egg cracked and out popped a much larger chick with a black beak and gray feathers. The mother duck looked at the new duckling and thought: He is my child but he doesn’t look like any of the others. No one wanted to play with the poor… Continue reading Fairy Good Tales: The Ugly Duckling
Thomas the Tank Engine: a Sure Crowd-Pleaser
I recently hosted another big character program for my library, this time giving center stage to Thomas the Tank Engine. My last big character program was Pinkalicious so I wanted to provide a character that had a younger, more boy-focused appeal. Why Thomas at the library? Well, he originally started out as a book! The Railway Series… Continue reading Thomas the Tank Engine: a Sure Crowd-Pleaser
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