The music of Laurie Berkner is often featured in storytime at AAPLD. Our Youth Librarians love her! Tomorrow, she will be holding a virtual seminar on Facebook Live about educational play & music at home. This will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, May 13th at 5:30pm Central Time (6:30pm Eastern Time).
May 8th, 2020 marks 75 years since the end of World War 2 in Europe. VE Day stands for Victory in Europe Day, which is understandably a much bigger deal in Europe than in the United States. The United States played a huge role in the Victory in Europe though. Before officially declaring war, the United States was sending war […]
May is National Pet Month, so here is a pet-themed podcast list curated by School Library Journal: Eat Your Spanish: Lesson 8, Pets Ages 5-12: Bilingual musicians and former Montessori teachers Evan and Vanessa speak mainly in English but select a couple of Spanish words to practice based on a theme. Here, they include words for common pets, including cat, […]
This Friday, May 8th at 12:30 pm, you can take a field trip to Mars with the Smithsonian – just click on this link. NASA has a wide variety of online resources and ideas for unplugged resources. Ranger Rick magazine has made themselves freely accessible to everyone stuck at home. Girls Who Code has an at home series that updates […]
Official Star Wars Storytimes Listen to Rey read BB-8 on the Run! This storytime is perfect for fans of the Sequel Trilogy. Or if you are more an Original Trilogy fan, check out C-3Po’s storytime. Lastly, for Prequel Trilogy & Clone Wars fans, Ahsoka Tanu does a fantastic reading of The Galaxy Needs You. Hope This May the 4th, we […]
To celebrate National Pet Month, we will be posting photos of Library Staff Pets to our social media pages. We want to include your pets too, so be sure to send photos of your pets to social@aapld.org. To start off, here is a sneak preview: Miss Jenni’s adorable puppy! Looking for some good pet reads? Here are some pet-themed eBook […]
Barnes and Noble has introduced a National Children’s Short Story Contest for kids ages 6-12. Fifteen select entries will be published in a real book sold exclusively at Barnes and Noble this winter holiday season. Entries should be 300-800 words or 4 pages of a black & white graphic story. Submit you entry here! The contest runs from April 27 […]
You may have heard about libraries 3D printing PPE for medical professionals. Our Harnish Makerbot Replicator 2 & Eastgate Makerbot Mini printers are working hard from home. Usually they print fun little pumpkins, dinosaur flexis, or Pokemon figurines but nowadays they are printing no-touch challenge items and “ear-saver” mask adapters. If you have ever wondered about the practical purposes of […]
Mondays with Michelle (at 11am) Michelle Obama has begun a read-aloud program with PBS Kids. Click here for this past Monday’s read-aloud of The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. Next Monday, Michelle will read There’s a Dragon in Your Book. On May 4th she will be reading Miss Maple’s Seeds and on May 11th her book will be The Very Hungry […]
For Ages 2-6 Brightly Storytime From Read Brightly, this podcast is also available as a YouTube channel and features a new weekly full-length picture book read out loud by storyteller Ms. Linda. CircleRound Created by WBUR, this podcast adapts folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays, ranging from 10 to 20 minutes each. Each story delivers […]
