Early Learning

The first day of school, separation anxiety, a sandwich running the classroom—all the usual suspects show up in these seven beauts about helping kids cross the transom back into the world of curiosity and learning!

From YouTube to TikTok, ­librarians’ videos are promoting early literacy and allowing access to learning activities. These tips and examples will inspire you to hit Record.

ABCs. 123s. The first year of school has come to an end, and it’s graduation time. These seven titles are the perfect picks for celebrating this monumental milestone.

Artfully designed casewraps, endpapers, flaps, and even copyright pages bring young readers deep into a picture book's world and spark engagement. 

Is a mix of ages better in a group, or one? Youth services staff make compelling cases for both approaches.

Travis Jonker raises up the best titles for reading aloud. “Some will be obvious and popular. Others lesser known. All will be story time gold.”

 For our September issue, journalist Martha Hinton reported on new approaches to teaching the topic of slavery in U.S. classrooms. 

Do you and your library program need attention?  Use these tips to refresh and recharge. 

Back to school means time to revisit Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's How to Raise an Antiracist. This New York Times bestseller is his answer to the many questions parents and educators have on how to bring children into conversation, about how to be better citizens in the world, and how to treat their peers with compassion and inclusion.