Libraries Are For Everyone: Mandarin
Chinese Language teacher Xiaoli kindly translated “Libraries are for everyone” into simplified Mandarin for this project!
Thank you Xiaoli!!!

A school librarian who wished to remain anonymous, reached out to several faculty members to get three translations of LAFE. Thank you to everyone involved in making these signs possible, and spreading the LAFE message.
Near the end of August, I think everyone on my team were sort of shell shocked at how much we put on our plates right after Summer Reading Program. I have to say that our planning session for September’s theme was one of the shortest ever. Here’s a reenactment in script form: <strong><em>September: a play in…
The magnificent Megan in Illinois wrote me last week to share what her library’s done with my designs. After I finished squeeeeing, I read the rest of her email. In it she asked if I would make my Libraries Are For Everyone bookmarks in black and white. About a week later: voilà! An option for…
I received two requests for Swedish by Jessica Iseborn Corander and a parent of one of Wendy’s a students. Thank you awesome parent and Jessica!!
I know that I wasn’t being super-original at all when it came to deciding how to decorate the Children’s Library for April. I was mostly excited to try out paper mache on a much larger scale than I ever have before in my life. I’d also seen several cool things on Pinterest that I wanted…
HAPPY KRAMPUSNACHT EVERYBODY! Over the past few years, Krampusnacht has become more acknowledged and celebrated in the United States. This celebration takes place on December 5, the day before Saint Nicholas (who approves of the Krampus’ work) rewards the good children on Nikolaustag. Read more about it here since I’d rather get to the storytime…