by Leah Langby | May 2, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Dav Pilkey, author of the perennial favorite series Captain Underpants, along with several other books, put together a short, sweet, and simple video about how people who don’t like a book can make a little, tiny change and protect others’ right to read...
by Leah Langby | May 1, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo by bruce mars from PexelsThere is an excellent article in The Hill by Dr. Jenny Radesky, a pediatrician who helped to write the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines about screen time and media use. The World Health Organization...
by Leah Langby | Apr 30, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image credit: PixabayProps to Olivia Langby* at the Waukesha Public Library for this recommendation for a couple of great resources of book reviews and other tips related to literature by and about Latinxs. Latinxs in Kid Lit has book reviews about books...
by Leah Langby | Apr 24, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image from PixabayMy favorite session at the Power Up Conference last month (how was that already a month ago?!) was Streamline for Strength with Kelsey Johnson-Kaiser (St. Paul) and Amy Koester (Skokie). They talked a lot about how to really think about...
by Leah Langby | Apr 11, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image source: Pixabay As someone who grew up in a very rural area (graduating class of 32, but 3 were foreign exchange students!), and someone who works with libraries serving rural communities, I’m glad to see national attention focused on the particular needs...
by Leah Langby | Apr 10, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
On Friday morning of the Power Up Conference, I attended two back-to-back sessions about inclusion that set me to wondering. The first was called But I Loved That Book as a Kid: Leading Staff to More Inclusive Practices with Angie Manfredi. The...
by Leah Langby | Apr 3, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image from PixabaySo, I guess I took March off from posting to the blog. Nothing like abdominal surgery to slow a person down. I am back, and full of ideas for posting, so hopefully content will be more regular from here on out. Remember that I am...
by Leah Langby | Feb 28, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Zero to ThreeWhat do the data say about how babies in Wisconsin are doing, and what could we be doing better?Zero to Three has collected a LOT of data in their State of Babies Yearbook: from how many families are accessing services they are eligible for, to how...
by Leah Langby | Feb 25, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
I’m working with a few IFLS-area libraries and a marvelous load of other partners on the Talking Is Teaching Chippewa Valley initiative. The goal is to empower parents and caregivers with the knowledge that the more they talk (and listen!) to their kids,...
by Leah Langby | Feb 18, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Read Across America Day is coming up, and many of you have fun activities planned for your communities, encouraging family reading and celebrating the fun of literature. Since this celebration of reading happens on March 2, which is the birthday of Dr....
by Leah Langby | Feb 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Wow, I cannot believe that February is half-over and I haven’t managed to write a blog post till now! Remember, if you have a program or something you’ve been thinking about you’d like us to highlight, those are always the most popular...
by Leah Langby | Jan 28, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image from PixabayThe Global Family Research Group, the group that created the excellent resource Public Libraries: A Vital Space for Family Engagement, have a new resource: Public Libraries Engage Families in STEM. They talk about the way...
