Today, August 10th is World Lion Day and I have to admit that I am a little bummed that I didn’t learn about this day until NOW and that I failed to share some of my favorite picture books with the daycare I visited today. Bah! Earlier in the summer I did a lion themed storytime because the library just got…
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Wait? What? Yup! There is a day called “National Underwear Day.” It was created by a company called Freshpair on August 5th, 2003 in an effort to publicly shine light on “unmentionables.” Here are picture books to celebrate national underwear day. The Underpants Zoo by Brian Sendelbach. This unusual zoo features animals wearing all types of underpants. Tip: We pretended to…
The Bee and I went to a sneak preview of the movie adaption of Roald Dahl’s The BFG. A few years ago he Bee was a on a major Roald Dahl kick, tearing through all of his books. and she was excited to see the movie. In spite of me working mere yards from the Dahl section of the library,…
I just finished watching the latest season of Orange is the New Black and what a ride! The inmates in Litchfield are going through it; the prison is not for profit and cutting costs seems to mean cutting inmates quality to life. One thing that didn’t seem to get cut was the library for the inmates to use and in…
Shark Week is Discovery Channel’s annual program event to celebrate, well, sharks. This year The Bee and I have cable and can watch some of the programs (yay!). In addition to the programming offered on the Discovery Channel, we also explored books and other mediums to learn about sharks. At the library, I shared these picture books with my kids: Shark in…