by Leah Langby | May 6, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
This was a month with less participation, which may have been because I stipulated that the chapter books should be stand-alones. Turns out there just aren’t many transitional chapter books that aren’t part of a series of books about the same...
by Leah Langby | May 5, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo credit: Quite AdeptCheck out this free webinar, sponsored by Early Childhood Investigations:Technology for infants and toddlers? Appalling or appealing? This webinar, presented by the authors of Zero to Three’s report, “Screen Sense: Setting the Record...
by Leah Langby | May 4, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Teens’Top Ten Badges Site graphicEvery year, teen groups from across the country nominate titles for YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten, and nominations are announced in April. Teens have all summer to read the 20-25 books, and then VOTE on their favorite...
by Leah Langby | Apr 21, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
The Association for Library Service to Children (of the American Library Association) has produced recommended reading lists for kids to enjoy over the summer. They come as part of 3 brochures–divided by age group, which they invite libraries to print...
by Leah Langby | Apr 17, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
I attended a conference put on by the Eau Claire Brain Team yesterday, and one of the sessions was about ACEs–Adverse Childhood Experiences–and the long-term health effects ACEs can have. But also about ways to help mitigate their effects by helping...
by Leah Langby | Apr 14, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Birds in flightI was reminded again today of the grace of librarians. In Eau Claire every April, there is a monumental effort on the part of schools and the library to have every first grade class from every school visit the library. This is a tremendous...
