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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 […]
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 […]
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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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Pecular Children by Ransom Riggs
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