Families
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten: March 2025
Posted about 4 weeks ago by Katie Heslop
1,000 Books Before Kindergarten is a nationwide initiative to encourage reading to babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. To learn more about how to start the program, visit the 1,000 Books Before […]
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten: February 2025
Posted about 2 months ago by Katie Heslop
1,000 Books Before Kindergarten is a nationwide initiative to encourage reading to babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. To learn more about how to start the program, visit the 1,000 Books Before […]
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten: January 2025
Posted about 3 months ago by Katie Heslop
Happy New Year! If you are looking for something to start in the New Year that will bring you and your child closer as well as build your child’s vocabulary […]
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The Best Books We Read in 2024
Posted about 3 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, Book Reviews, Children's, Families, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Teens
| Tagged with bestof, bestof2024, favoritebook
The Fury of the Gods by John Gwynne, “The final book in John Gwynne’s Bloodsworn Saga, The Fury of the Gods rounds out a heart-pumping, epic fantasy trilogy filled with Vikings, gods, and […]
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten: December 2024
Posted about 4 months ago by Katie Heslop
1,000 Books Before Kindergarten is a nationwide initiative to encourage reading to babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. To learn more about how to start the program, visit the 1,000 Books Before […]
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Expanded Memory Lab Hours
Posted about 4 months ago by Ben Himmelfarb
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Adult, Families, History and Preservation
| Tagged with archives, digitization, Family history, memory lab, personal history
History Comes Out at the Holidays At this time of year, we are likely to see loved ones we do not see during the rest of the year. We might […]
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten: November 2024
Posted about 5 months ago by Katie Heslop
1,000 Books Before Kindergarten is a nationwide initiative to encourage reading to babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. To learn more about how to start the program, visit the 1,000 Books Before […]
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten: October 2024
Posted about 6 months ago by Katie Heslop
October is the second month of Richmond Public Library’s 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program, a nationwide initiative to encourage reading to babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. To learn more about how […]
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten: September 2024
Posted about 7 months ago by Katie Heslop
This month, Richmond Public Library launched the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program, a nationwide initiative to encourage reading to babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. To learn more about how to start the program, visit the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten page on our website. It can be daunting to try to find books that your child will love.
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July Book Chat with the Youth Services Team
Posted about 9 months ago by Lisa Wiertel
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Children's, Families, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #bookchat, #bookrecs, #childrenbookrecommendations, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #picturebook recommendations, #richmondlibrary, #rplrecommends, #youthservices, picturebooks, richmond, ripple
Welcome to 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 […]
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