It’s always the unanswered questions that draw us to stories of kidnapping and captivity and keep us hooked until the last page. Where were the characters taken? Why were they taken? How do they escape? Do they escape? While some of these books are grim and dark, others have hopeful and optimistic qualities, and all…
Hear Diversity: 5 Audiobooks for Teens that Build Understanding, Not Walls
Diversity in audio is just as important as diversity in print. Kids and teens need to hear themselves in character dialogs and language just as much as they need to see themselves reflected in their print counterparts. Books on CD and downloadable audiobook format also provide accessibility for people with obstacles that prevent them from…
The Woodmont Public Garden
The Woodmont Library is celebrating the 5th anniversary of its wildly successful public garden. Created in 2012 by Children’s Librarian Deborah Sandler, each year it just gets better and better. Thanks to this year’s Children’s Librarian Robin Howe, we are continuing the tradition. The peas and kale are ready and the strawberries are coming on…
Alternative Reads #1: Wordless Novels
This is the first in a series of posts entitled Alternative Reads in which I will be writing about interesting and unique forms of literature that may be lesser known to the general public. A wordless/silent novel is a book geared towards adults in which the artist/author uses a series of pictures in…
Fires and forests and parks, oh my
This August 25th it will be 100 years since President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the The National Parks Service, a new federal bureau in the Department of the Interior responsible for protecting the 35 national parks and monuments then managed by the department and those yet to be established. For folks just interested…
Preserving the Flavors of Summer!
It's officially summer again, and thank goodness because I've been coasting on the remains of last year's apple butter for quite a while! Needless to say, I am super excited that it's time to stock up my pantry with new jams and other goodies again. There's nothing like tasting summer in the form of a…
Welcome to *CHOMP!* Shark Week
Do you have someone in your household who loves sharks? If so, then I probably don't need to tell you that it's SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel! This programming series started as a silly idea in 1988 that has grown into an unstoppable cultural phenomenon. Did you know that Shark Week is the longest-running cable…
Three Free and Easy Ways to Defeat the Dreaded Summer Slide
Kids lose hard-won reading skills over the summer because they don't read anything for three whole months. This is known as the summer slide. The good news is that it doesn't need to cost a lot of money or take a ton of time to keep your kids thinking and learning during the summer. Here…
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
...and the global economy does not feel fine. Last night as the United States slumbered Great Britain (that's England, Wales, and Scotland, fyi.) decided to leave the European Union; it is the first country to leave the EU since the European Economic Community (considered the EU's predecessor) was established in 1958. For coverage of the referendum results…
Love The 100? Try These Titles
Do you love the sci-fi action series The 100? Are you looking for something to tide you over until the premiere of season four? If so, read on for a list of books, movies and TV shows about space, survival and sci-fi adventure. Battlestar Galactica The war with the Cylons (vengeful humanoid robots…
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