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News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month
Posted about 7 months ago by Lisa Wiertel
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Adult, Children's, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with children, dyslexia, LD, learning disabilities, Library, reading, resources, richmond, virginia
Every October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. The International Dyslexia Association defines dyslexia as the following: “Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by […]
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October Book Chat with the YA Team
Posted about 7 months ago by Genevievre Gray
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Fiction, For Teens, ghosts, Graphic Novels, holidays; celebrations, horror, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Teens, young adult
| Tagged with #bookchat, #bookrecs, #halloween, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, halloween, halloweenbooks, reading suggestions, spookybooks, spookyseason, teenreads, ya, youngadult
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 […]
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Storytime at Home: Monsters
Posted about 7 months ago by Sarah Fenninger
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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 […]
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October Book Chat with Youth Services Team
Posted about 7 months ago by Lisa Wiertel
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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 […]
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Arpilleras from Chile–When Words Are Not Enough
Posted about 7 months ago by Laura Price
While “a picture is worth a thousand words” is a cliche, in the case of arpilleras, creative projects started by Chilean women in the 1970s, their compelling pictures and thoughtful compositions are easily worth thousands of words.
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The Busy Parents’ Book Club – “The Three of Us” by Ore Agbaje-Williams
Posted about 7 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, book discussions, Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions
| Tagged with book recommendations, bookclub, parent, reading suggestions, shortbooks
Welcome to the first installment of the blog post series “The Busy Parents’ Book Club.” I decided to start this series after having my second baby in two years and […]
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Meet the Community Memory Fellow: Marvin Hicks
Posted about 7 months ago by Ben Himmelfarb
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Adult, History and Preservation, Inform * Enrich * Empower
| Tagged with community memory fellow, history, local history, memory lab, Preservation, public history, research, richmond history
The Community Memory Fellow (CMF) position was created to broaden the notion of what public history is in Richmond and make that history accessible to everyone. Over the course of […]
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten: October 2024
Posted about 7 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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Storytime at Home: Leaves, Acorns, and Apples
Posted about 8 months ago by Sarah Fenninger
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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 […]
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Find Your Next Great Read @ the Library
Posted about 8 months ago by Meg Raymond
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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 […]
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