Hey! Did you know that the last week of September is Banned Books Week? It's sort of like the library world's own little holiday where we celebrate the freedom to read by reading, talking about, and highlighting the most controversial books published in the United States every year. This year's focus is on the number […]
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I love autumn. I love cardigan weather and listening to the Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack and curling up on a brisk day with a book in hand. But not just any book will do. I want something that screams "fall". Something that evokes the colors of the season, the crunch of fallen leaves underfoot and […]
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Anna Dewdney, author and illustrator of the beloved children's series, Llama, Llama , passed away on September 3, in her Vermont home at the age of 50, from brain cancer. She had illustrated books for other authors in the 1990s, but it was the publication in 2005 of Llama Llama Red Pajama, the first book in the picture book series, BibWidget that launched […]
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So your teen has just left for college and you're an empty nester in a 3,000 square-foot home, coming to grips with being alone in that house. (Worry not...KCLS can help!) From Mom to Me Again, written by Melissa Schultz of the Huffington Post, offers support and suggestions from experts and mothers who have experienced the emotions so well-known, that "empty […]
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The library is a bridge to the world!! When my coworker Paul was a boy, he was fascinated by going to the airport to look at the flight information boards of all the international departures and arrivals. So many planes came from and went all over the world, making him imagine those unknown countries. Libraries are even better than […]
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