Digging Dinosaurs in Phillips

Thanks to Jo Hick for sending in photos from this program.  It looks pretty simple, but also really fun!  Still scrambling for ideas?  Here are a few crowd-pleasers.Digging up dinos (I am itching to do this myself!):Making dinosaur fossils with...

Why Children’s Books Matter

Some fun stuff out there recently about kids’ books!Here’s a recent article at the Atlantic website about an exhibit at the New York Public Library, curated by Leonard Marcus, a children’s book historian.  It makes me want to go to New York...

WisDOT Gets in on Reading Love

This got lost in the shuffle, but it’s not to too late to promote this Wisconsin Department of Transportation Reading Challenge.  Kids up to age 10 are encouraged to read books that include mention of various forms of transportation (bicycles, cars, boats,...

A Few More Displays

In Durand:Kids register on groundhogs, ants or worms and they are added to the tunnel (created out of paper towels!)In Pepin, kids who read decorate a piece of the bookworm growing daily:In Bloomer, capitalizing on Badger-fever (and drawing talent!), here’s a...