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Storytime at Home: Tea Party Time!

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childrens

Welcome to the Storytime at Home series! Every other week, we share a list of book options tied to a kid-approved theme, a craft you can set up to go along with the theme, songs/rhymes you can do during storytime, and additional enrichment activities. All books are available at Richmond Public Library, and crafts will involve items you likely have at home already! Our hope is that we can make it easy for you to share stories with your little ones and create a little bit of library magic at home.  P.S. Love library storytimes? Take a...

March Book Chat with the Youth Services Team

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families
reading-recommendations

Welcome to the another installment in our series of blog posts featuring children's books we're currently loving! "Book Chat with the Youth Services Team" features one book recommendation from each of our Youth Services team members. We cover a variety of books from fiction to non-fiction, picture books to chapter books, graphic novels and more! We hope that this month's reading recommendations get you excited about some awesome new books we've added to our collection as well as some oldies but goodies....

Picture Books to Get Ready for March Madness!

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sports

  With Super Bowl LVIII now in the books and the opening day of baseball over a month away, it is time to get ready for March Madness! March Madness is the annual NCAA Division 1 basketball tournament that first began in 1939.  The initial tournament consisted of 8 teams playing for the title.  Since 1985, the number of teams playing increased to its current 64. The term “March Madness” was first coined in 1939 by Illinois high school official Henry V. Porter.  The NCAA tournament wasn’t referred to as March Madness until the...

Storytime at Home: Trains

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childrens

Welcome to the Storytime at Home series! Every other week, we share a list of book options tied to a kid-approved theme, a craft you can set up to go along with the theme, songs/rhymes you can do during storytime, and additional enrichment activities. All books are available at Richmond Public Library, and crafts will involve items you likely have at home already! Our hope is that we can make it easy for you to share stories with your little ones and create a little bit of library magic at home.  P.S. Love library storytimes? Take a look...

Introducing Magazines on OverDrive

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online-database

In case you missed it, we recently added magazines to our OverDrive collection. Now, in addition to ebooks and audiobooks, you can access over 5,000 popular magazine titles including Time, National Geographic, and Rolling Stone, all via your Libby app. The best part  — magazines are unlimited simultaneous use, meaning you never have to wait to borrow a copy and they don't count toward your checkout limits. Excited? We are too! Let's dive in a little deeper to help you get the most from this new offering. What magazines are...