Listen, Learn, Create Celebrates Lunar New Year with USC Pacific Asia Museum

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On Monday, we had a visit from Valentina Quezada and other representatives of the USC Pacific Asia Museum for their free art program, Listen, Learn, Create! Each quarter they come and bring stories and art projects to teach kids about Asian arts and cultures. Valentina read a folk tale called […]

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon: Read Around the World travels to China

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Read Around the World is a new book club we’ve started for 3rd – 5th graders. Each month the kids read a novel set in another part of the world, and come to the library to complete challenges, do crafts, play games or solve puzzles, as well as to discuss […]

The Meaning of Life: Preschool Storytime — and, some of the best picture books of 2019!

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Books We Shared We had some great new picture books this past year, and this lovely and colorful book Daniel’s Good Day by Micha Archer was one of them! In it, a little boy goes around his neighborhood asking people what makes a good day for them. When they all […]

Crazy Hair: Preschool Storytime

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Today we had fun with silly books about hair! I sported some silly hair myself just to get into it. Books We Read Mustache Baby by Bridget Heos is a funny book about a baby with a mustache, who is trying to find out whether he has a “good guy” […]

Using Computer Science for Good — Kids’ Coding Club and Computer Science Education Week

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Yesterday, to celebrate Computer Science Education Week, we focused on learning about one of the newest trends in computer science: machine learning artificial intelligence. We discussed how artificial intelligence can help humanity and the Earth, by making it easier to operate prosthetics, create tools for assisting people with disabilities, identify […]

December Craft: Jewelry Workshop for Kids

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Monday’s jewelry making workshop for kids had a very special guest instructor. Kaitlyn was once a kid who came to a library craft program where she was introduced to jewelry making skills and equipment, and she was hooked! She checked out this book: and developed a passion for making her […]

Infant Toddler Show with Angie Donkin

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We had fun this morning with Angie Donkin, dancing with scarves, playing shaker eggs, singing with finger puppets and a little purple puppet named Monster! Dance and Play: Old King Cole: Don Alfredo: If you’d like to find more of Angie’s music for little ones, please check out her YouTube […]

R is for Recap: Infant Storytime

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Today our theme was intended to be about audience participation and recapping past songs and rhymes. I printed out some of the songs we’ve done in the past, and put a couple of new ones on there. I put up a display of some of the books we read in […]

R is for Recap: Toddler Storytime

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Today our theme was intended to be about audience participation and recapping past songs and rhymes. I printed out some of the songs we’ve done in the past, and put a couple of new ones on there. I put up a display of some of the books we read in […]

Farm: Toddler Storytime

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Today we met a turkey, and then met all of his friends from the farm! Books We Shared I Spy on the Farm by Edward Gibbs invites kids to guess each animal with three clues: the color of the animal, the first letter of its name, and the sound the […]