Shelf Respect

Posted about 12 months ago by Katie Heslop

Posted in Book Reviews, Children's, Families, Picturebooks

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.

Posted about 1 year ago by Genevievre Wood

Posted in Book Reviews, For Teens, Teens | Tagged with #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, reading suggestions, teenreads, yabooks, yareads

Don't know what to read next? Looking for YA book recommendations? Welcome to the Book Chat with the Young Adult Team. Each month, the YA Team recommends one book from our YA collection.

Posted about 1 year ago by Lisa Wiertel

Posted in Biographies, Children's, diverse reads, Fiction, nonfiction, Picturebooks, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions | Tagged with books, child, children, children's books, richmond, Richmond Public Library, RPL, virginia

This is the 4th and final installment of a series of blog posts highlighting children’s books that include Richmond and Virginia as the location. It is always fun to read […]

Posted about 1 year 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 1 year ago by Lisa Wiertel

Posted in Book Reviews, Children's

Welcome to another installment in our series of blog posts featuring children’s books we’re currently loving! This month we have some guest bloggers!  Each of our library branches has been […]

Posted about 1 year ago by Louis Maranski

Posted in Adult | Tagged with adults, young adult

Dungeons and Dragons, usually shortened to D&D or DnD, is a game first published by Wizards of the CoastTM in 1974 that has become much more prominent and popular in […]

Posted about 1 year ago by Meg Raymond

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

RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE CHECK OUT THESE NEW BOOKLISTS ON  THE RPL READERS PAGE August is Happiness Happens month Because we can’t contain our Happiness, there’s more! Happiness […]

Posted about 1 year 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 1 year ago by Kate McCarthy

Posted in Fiction, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with book recommendations, book recs, Greek mythology, mythology, reading suggestions, retellings

So you’ve read Madeline Miller’s Song of Achilles or Circe and are hungry for more… Or maybe you’re a fan of the Percy Jackson series or quite possibly you’ve just […]

Posted about 1 year ago by Lauren Clementi

Posted in Children's, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, olympics

The Olympics are here, and we are here to help you celebrate! Want to learn more about a sport? We’ve got non-fiction! Want to read a story about your favorite […]