Oh, preschoolers are fun. They've got OPINIONS and FACTS (about dinosaurs and firetrucks and Disney characters) and THINGS TO TELL YOU. They can handle more complicated storylines, where the action doesn't all happen on the page or in the words. Stories can be more nuanced, the jokes less obvious. But still, they're young, so attention spans are short. We don't need paragraphs of text - 3 or 4 sentences a page, max. But their eyes can find more details in illustrations and so

In my monthly library program, I choose an early literacy theme on which to focus. In November it was vocabulary - or, more specifically,...

Sharing picture books is a great way to grow social-emotional skills like empathy. Reading a story offers a great opportunity to put...

Did you know that learning about shapes helps with learning letters and numbers? It does! Being able to recognize shapes helps with...

Every month I share a booklist to go along with the theme of the program I'm doing at my library that month. This month we're exploring...

The past couple of days, I had the opportunity to work at my library's maker booth at Denver's FanExpo. I've done it several times...

More books for babies! We might be getting a little more complicated here, but not much. But books will start having more of a story arc...