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Books selected by your neighbors

What a fun idea from Half Hollow Hills Community Library. “We invite our patrons to display their favorite books, authors, music, or movies to share with their neighbors.” More info: Read Like Larry What your neighbor Larry selected Originally uploaded by HHHCL

Free audiobook short stories, kids songs and Kahuna Reef video game!

Thanks to Rachel Singer Gordon’s Mashup Mom, I scored some fun freebies today. And you can too! From  Freebies on Friday, 4/24/09 Free Big Kahuna Reef game download from Amazon.com Get the Walking Oliver Sampler — 5 free kids songs — from Amazon.com. From Thematic Thursday, 4/23/09 — Boooooooks Get 9 free short story audiobook [...]

Awesome Teen Read Week Video

Teen Read week was last month, but you could make this kind of great book teasers video anytime. From readergirlz. Created with Microsoft Movie Maker. What fun.

Nancy Pearl was in town

Last week Nancy Pearl was in town for the 50th anniversary of the Southern Adirondack Library System and gave a delightful talk at their annual dinner. She also presented several other programs, including a session on readers advisory for children & teens. And even though I’ve never done any real RA work, the librarians I [...]

Book Blizzard project at Stillwater Free Library

Book Blizzard – What at terrific project at Stillwater Free Library (NY) – a reading challenge to the whole town and a fund raiser to boot. The funds will go towards making their wonderful old building handicapped accessible. The Book Blizzard blog has lots of fun stuff going on: Santa reading “The Night Before Christmas”, [...]