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April 17, 2012             With the beautiful weather ahead of us, lots of families are sprucing up around home; rakin

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A monkey themed storytime is always great fun to share.  The children were really excited to be back after our break and happy to be together.  We began with our name game and introduced a few new faces and

March is Women’s History Month, a celebration of women's contributions to history, culture and society. 

Women's Education - Women's Empowerment is the theme of Women’s History Month 2012 and serves as a reminder that although women now outnumber men in American colleges nationwide, the fight to learn was once a struggle waged by many women.

March is a great time to educate the young women (and men) in your life with these true life accounts of how women have changed the world.

Written in a clear voice tinged with heartbreak, love, and memory, Coleman recounts her childhood on a farm in Maine. But this was not just any farm: her father, Elliot Coleman, has become the guru of the organic farming movement, well-known to legions of gardeners and farmers.

            Imagine a circus filled with real magic instead of illusions … would you be able to discern the difference?

Ava Bigtree, 13, has lived a most unusual life as the youngest child in a performing family of alligator wrestlers in the Florida swamps. Their island attraction, Swamplandia!, is both home and theme park, where the family’s mythic history has taken root.

March 7, 2012 is World Read Aloud Day (WRAD). And it's a day to celebrate books and reading.

World Read Aloud Day is about taking action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people. Participants are asked to read with loved ones and friends to help reach a goal of 774 million minutes of reading to honor the 774 million people worldwide who are illiterate.

This is school vacation week and I knew attendance in storytime would be a little lighter, so we would have the opportunity to share a few books that ordinarily might not wor