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Self-directed programming can be as simple as a table with coloring sheets and wildlife livecams or as in-depth as a complex scavenger hunt.

Outstanding school librarians share new ideas, reboots, and advice for 2024–25.

Starting a new school, or even a new school year, can elicit a lot of emotions for many children. These board books, picture books, and early readers will help reassure young readers that all will be well when they step into their new classroom.

Used in concert with traditional teaching methods, these resources for creation, instruction, research, and grading can make learning more dynamic.

Join three librarians on August 26 for some show-and-tell as they discuss and demonstrate brain-building read-alouds, tantalizing tech tools, and crowd-pleasing crafts and activities. 

Incorporating interactive features, engaging text, and delightful rhymes, these board books encourage the magic of a shared reading experience that no screen, app, or video can replicate.

Who runs the world? Girls! March is Women's History Month. Share these diverse stories of brave, fierce, powerful women of the past and present with tweens to inspire them throughout the year.

Librarians should be attuned to alternative reading options so that blind and low-vision students have the same access to books as their sighted peers.

In these works, silly creatures impart wise messages.