School has started, soon your child will be excited to pick out a book for the first book report of the year. Well, if they are't super stoked to pick out a book, may I make some suggestions? I've provided links to popular book lists. Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy. Pick out a book, put it…
Arr! September 19 be talk like a Pirate Day!
"Avast! We be swashbucklers!" means "Stop! We're pirates!" in pirate! As part of your membership to East Lansing Public Library, you have access to Mango Languages. With Mango you can learn many different languages - 71 languages to be exact! Can you guess what one of them is? PIRATE! You can learn very practical phrases…
Miss Eva’s Top Three: September 2018
Welcome to Miss Eva's Top Three! Each month I'll be picking out items from three different areas of the children's section to feature that I've enjoyed -- some new titles, some older ones, but all of them things that have caught my eye! Check out this month's picks below. Picture book: Apples and Robins by Lucie Felix This creative…
“Slow” Living
I first came across the book Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World, by Brooke McAlary, while I was paying invoices for the library.
The World According to Mr. Rogers
No One Has All the Answers... (Well, except maybe Mr. Rogers!)
2018 Teens’ Top Ten Nominees From YALSA
Each year, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) gathers nominations from teen book groups throughout the country and creates a "teen choice list" of books from the previous year. The 2018 Teens Top Ten Voting is now open at DOGObooks and voting continues through Teen Read Week, October 7-13, 2018. Voting is for teens only…
Remembering Aretha
Aretha Franklin was and always will be the Queen of Soul. She began singing at her father's church, New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, MI and became one of the best selling musical artists of all time. Today, she passed away at her home in Detroit and she will be greatly missed by her fans…
Author of the Month: Jacqueline Woodson
This month's featured author, Jacqueline Woodson, is the current National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and has won numerous awards throughout her career, including the National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, and multiple Newbery Honor Awards. At the end of August, Woodson will release two new children's books -- including the first middle…
There’s a waffle in my pocket – parenting with patience and humor. ART!
This summer, every Friday morning at the East Lansing Library, we made art. Music themed art! Libraries Rock was our Summer Reading theme, and our biggest project was commissioned by the Friends of the East Lansing Public Library. The kids used Kwikstix to color black and white album covers. Come in and see our larger…
Miss Eva’s Top Three: August 2018
Welcome to Miss Eva's Top Three! Each month I'll be picking out items from three different areas of the children's section to feature that I've enjoyed -- some new titles, some older ones, but all of them things that have caught my eye! Check out this month's picks below. Community Languages Collection: A Nest in Springtime: A Bilingual…
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