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September 17, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Hello Kitty Craft Books

You probably heard the news: Hello Kitty is not, in fact, a cat. My middle school heart is broken, my childhood now dramatically altered. I spent most of my middle school allowance on all those cute Hello Kitty thing-a-ma-jigs (technical term). It was an obsession. So I was super excited when I received two fun […]

January 11, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Sleuthing the Sleuth: Discussing The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

I recently watched a fascinating discussion about Sherlock Holmes on PBS called How Sherlock Changed the World.  One of the interesting revelations the special maintains is that as the original Sherlock stories were being written they were in fact SCIENCE FICTION in that Doyle posited doing things with science to investigate and solve crimes that […]

December 13, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

TPiB: Sprinkles – Things to Make and Do with Sprinkles, inspired by the book Sprinkles! by Jackie Alpers

Last year for Christmas, The Mr. and I bought the girls this big box thing of sprinkles.  I’m not going to lie, it really just appealed to my organizational nature – I am a librarian after all. We used the sprinkles exactly twice.  Once to make cookies.  And a second time when the Tween had […]

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Flasback Post: Tales from Lovecraft Middle School

December 12, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

As part of Quirk Books Week, I am rerunning an earlier post about the Tales from Lovecraft Middle School, a great read for Middle Grade readers who want to be afraid – but not too afraid.  Fans of Percy Jackson may also like it as a bunch of mythological creatures are also pulled into the […]

TPiB: On a Stick

December 11, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

This is how some program ideas come to me: I am flipping through a new book that comes into our library and it sparks some inspiration.  It’s a win/win: patrons get cool books and I get great program ideas. I like the idea of food on a stick.  There are some glorious recipes in here: […]

TPiB: STEM Projects with Nick and Tesla’s High-Voltage Danger Lab

December 11, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Just as I was thinking to myself, “self, you need more sciency things in your programming”, Nick and Tesla’s High-Voltage Danger Lab by “Science Bob” Plugfelder and Steve Hockensmith showed up on my doorstep.  It was like a gift from the STEM fairies.  And the Tween spawn of me saw it and immediately grabbed it […]

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TPiB: Marshmallow Madness

December 10, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Although Marshmallow Madness by Shauna Sever mostly involves various recipes for cooking your own marshmallows, I couldn’t help but think of all the fun programming you can do around the theme of marshmallows.  One of the most popular programs I ever hosted involved putting a buffet of various sweet food items in front of a […]

Book Review: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars by Ian Doescher (Plus a TPiB)

December 10, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

May the Verse Be With You! William Shakespeare’s Star Wars by Ian Doescher is kind of one of the best books ever.  It was not at all what I was expecting.  It is basically Star Wars, done as a Shakespeare play, including stage directions and all the requisite doths and pray ye and such. You […]

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Pecular Children by Ransom Riggs

December 9, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

This post originally ran way back in 2011, when I first started TLT.  I am rerunning it today as part of Quirk Books Week.  And because I still love this book and you should read it if you haven’t.  Even if you have, read it again because the sequel, Hollow City, comes out in January […]

Take 5: “Quirk”-y Cookbooks (Quirk Books Week)

December 9, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

This week is Quirk Books Week so we are all about Quirk Books.  This week all came about actually because I was browsing their website one day while starving and they have all these cool cookbooks. I sat there drooling on my keyboard.  Seriously, the L key now sticks.  So when the books came in […]

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