National Pet Month

National Pet Month

by | May 29, 2025 | Adults, Booklists, Children, Young Adults

We’re celebrating National Pet Month! We have collected stories that features pets in important roles. From cata to pigs, we hope you enjoy these books and movies! Books Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawawaka...
Book Adaptations

Book Adaptations

by | May 22, 2025 | Adults, Children, Young Adults

As we approach the half way point of the year, here’s a list of all the movies and television shows based on hit books coming later in 2025 or 2026. What are you most excited for? Coming in 2025 How To Train Your Dragon based on the book by Cressida Cowell I...
Tell a Fairy Tale Day

Tell a Fairy Tale Day

by | Feb 27, 2025 | Adults, Booklists, Children, Young Adults

We’re celebrating Tell a Fairy Tale Day! In this post, you will find some classic fairy tales as well as new modern retelling of some of your favorites! Be sure to let us know which one you are most excited to read!! Children’s Books Picture books Hansel...
Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays

by | Dec 5, 2024 | Adults, Children, Young Adults

From all of us to you, we hope you have a wonderful holiday season. Here are some of our choices for holidays books and movies for you to enjoy!  Books A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Three Holidays and a Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin and Marissa Stapley In a...
Children’s Non-Fiction Spotlight

Children’s Non-Fiction Spotlight

by | Nov 21, 2024 | Booklists, Children

Did you know that we eat 350 slices of pizza every second in the United States? Or that in Sweden, there is a type of pizza that is topped with bananas, curry powder, and peanuts? Mmmm! (Pizza! A Slice of History by Greg Pizzoli)  How about the fact that the Statue of...

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