Shelf Respect

Posted about 11 months ago by Sarah Fenninger

Posted in Book Reviews, Children's | Tagged with #bookchat, #bookrecs, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #rplrecommends, #storytimeathome, storytime at home

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 […]

Posted about 11 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, reading suggestions

  RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.   Check out these new booklists on the RPL Readers page! Two recent articles caught my eye, both about the (supposed?) dearth of […]

Posted about 11 months ago by Genevievre Wood

Posted in Book Reviews

Don’t know what to read next? Looking for YA book recommendations? Welcome to the Book Chat with the Young Adult Team. Every month, the YA Team each recommends a favorite […]

Posted about 11 months ago by Genevievre Wood

Posted in Fiction, For Teens, hispanic heritage month, holidays; celebrations, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Teens | Tagged with #bookrecs, #teens, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, forteens, hispanicheritage, latino, latinx, reading suggestions, teenreads, teens, ya, yabooks, yareads

Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated annually in the United States starting on September 15, which was chosen to coincide with the Independence Days of several Hispanic nations, and ending on […]

Posted about 11 months ago by Sarah Fenninger

Posted in Book Reviews

AHOY! September 19 is International Talk Like A Pirate Day – a day that encourages everyone to talk like scallywags and enjoy all things pirate! Here in the Richmond Public […]

Posted about 12 months ago by Sarah Fenninger

Posted in Book Reviews, Children's | Tagged with #bookchat, #bookrecs, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #rplrecommends, #storytimeathome, storytime at home

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 […]

Posted about 12 months ago by Lisa Wiertel

Posted in Book Reviews, Children's, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #rplrecommends, #youthservices, book reviews, children's books, picture books, reading suggestions

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 […]

Posted about 12 months ago by Laura Price

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #LibraryCardSignUpMonth

September is officially Library Card Sign-Up Month, but to paraphrase a common saying, every month is a good one to sign up for a library card! Libraries have changed, adapted, grown, and improved. The more I think about what libraries used to provide, the more I marvel at all the wonderful options available to the library users of today.

Posted about 12 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, reading suggestions, ReadUpRichmond

Richmond Public Library's Read Up Richmond challenges people to read differently, to read outside one's own lived experience to develop an understanding of the world. This program is an opportunity for people from different walks of life to come together in the library to learn together, enter into a conversation with the larger community, and share the same space - making Richmond a more connected, more civil place.

Posted about 12 months ago by Sarah Fenninger

Posted in Children's | Tagged with #bookrecs, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, grandma, grandpa, Grandparents, grandparentsday

Grandparents' Day celebrates the love between grandparents and grandchildren. This year, it occurs on Sunday, September 8, 2024. There's no better way to celebrate such a holiday than by cozying up with a few good books and bonding through a love of stories!