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Dig into Summer Time Read Alouds

Summer time is a great chance to read aloud from a chapter book with your child! Why read chapter books together? Building Memory: When you break up a story over subsequent sittings, your child must...

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It’s a Firefly Night!

Playing outside in the Summer is fun – especially when fireflies are out. Get into the fun with these books and activities. Read about fireflies, what they are and how they make their light. Following...

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Dig into Reading…but do it soon!

Summer reading ends on July 31–the same day as our Alice in Wonderland wrap up party! Join us all day long for crafts and fun down the rabbit hole with Alice, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and more!

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Full STEAM Ahead!

Wonderworks is the Westerville Public Library’s STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) storytime for preschoolers. This week’s program featured tunnels, beginning with Ryan Ann Hunter’s...

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Saving Endangered Animals: Anna, Emma and the Condors

The California Condor, the largest land bird in North America, is critically endangered. In 1982, there were only 22 condors in existence. With help from scientists like the ones in this film, the...

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All Aboard! a few favorite picture books of 2013

Fall is that time of year when all sorts of “best of the year” lists start appearing.  For picture book fans, talk swirls around what might win the Caldecott Award, the recognition given to the “most...

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C is for Cloud

Look up in the sky, and what do you see? At a recent Wonderworks (our preschool science program) we explored clouds.  Children had fun guessing what shapes were in Charles Shaw’s classic, It Looked...

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What we’re reading: from Tween ARC

Wow, it’s November and the holidays are, as they say, right around the corner!  As usual, the 4th and 5th grade members of ARC (Advance Readers Club) have their say about some of the new books they’ve...

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Caldecott predictions 2014

What picture book illustrated by a U.S. citizen in 2013 will be chosen as the “most distinguished” picture book for children? We will hold our own mock Caldecott discussion just days before the...

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Books & Blocks

Building towers was the focus of this week’s Books & Blocks program. We retold the fairy tale of Rapunzel, looked at Paul Zelinksky’s amazing illustrations, and then got busy building with wooden...

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