MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2013
This Week at TLT Icepocalypse Now It’s Quirk Books Week! Ransom Riggs is one of Quirk’s most famous authors. Here is our original review for Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (from 2011.) We also have the book trailer for the sequel – Hollow City by Ransom Riggs. Finally, you can read my […]
I am crafty. Well, I sometimes pretend to be crafty. Well, actually, I think about being crafty. Occasionally, I attempt being crafty. And as a librarian, I *do* end up doing a lot of crafts with tweens and teens in the library. So I am all about crafts, even when my execution leaves a little […]
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 […]
Puppies, kittens and babies (oh my!) What do they have in common? A large portion of the population thinks they are cute. I propose they are cute because they are tiny. I mean, have you ever seen those tiny baby shoes? Totes adorbs, as my Tween would say. Because we seem to be drawn to […]
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
Doctor Who, Duct Tape, Food Crafts, On a Stick, Quirk Books, Sherlock, Teen Programming, TPIB
|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
High-Voltage Danger Lab, Middle Grade Fiction, Mysteries, Nick and Tesla, Quirk Books, STEM Education, TPIB
|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 […]
I don’t always do everything John Green recommends in one of his Vlogbrothers videos…but I do always consider it. One day, almost in passing, he mentioned that his college friend Ransom Riggs was having a book published. And that he thought it was quite good. Good enough, in fact, that he had blurbed it. That […]
TPiB: Marshmallow Madness
Food Challenges, Marshmallow Madness, Marshmallows, Programming, Quirk Books, Teen Programming, TPIB
|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 […]
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 […]
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