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With over 500 federally recognized First Nations in the United States alone, I can honestly say that trying to create a respectful Native American holiday storytime was intimidating. By far, this post required the most research of all the holidays – and even now, I feel incredible pressure to get this “right.” And as I…
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So, the other morning I mentioned to one of my mentors in the library world that I was feeling a bit overwhelmed with trying to have <a href=”http://www.freecomicbookday.com/Home/1/1/27/992″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”><em>Free Comic Book Day </em></a>at our library for the first time this year. Her response (bless her) was “Don’t you just give out some free comics? How…

Libraries Are For Everyone: Ojibwe
I have two fantastic translations of LAFE into Ojibwe. The first Ojibwe translation comes from Stephanie Schroeder in Saint Paul, MN. The concept was hard to translate so the teachers of Harding Senior High School conferred together and came up with “We are at the reading house,” hoping that it conveyed togetherness and inclusivity. The…

Libraries Are For Everyone: Tigrigna
This Tigrigna translation comes from someone in Eritrea (just north of Ethiopia) who works for the BBC. Thank you for this translation!

Libraries Are For Everyone: French
Here are the French versions with the translation courtesy of Frederique Grim. Merci beaucoup, Frederique!
The Very Happy Caterpillar
<img class=”aligncenter size-large wp-image-6258″ src=”https://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/happy-caterpillar.jpg?w=700″ alt=”Celebrating the anniversary of Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar at our Children’s Library | Hafuboti.com” width=”700″ height=”478″> I have been waiting for a full year to have our decor at the Children’s Library be Eric Carle-ized. When I started working at the Children’s Library, one of the very first…