Book Corner: Delight in these spooky children’s stories

It’s easy to see Halloween just around the corner, with decorations appearing all over our neighborhoods.  Readers can embrace the season, too. Older children who enjoy a little spooky surprise in their stories have some great choices, with everything from Dr. Seuss characters to witches and ghosts. Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears A Boo! by Wade Bradford…
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Book Corner: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

We are in the midst of Hispanic Heritage Month, a great time to recognize and celebrate the culture, history, and contributions of Hispanic and Latin Americans of today and yesterday. Latinitas by Juliet Menéndez Short, snappy, age-appropriate biographies highlight the contributions of 40 women from Latin American countries or of Latin American heritage. From the 1600s…
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Book Corner: Another Chapter Closes for Café Book

We’ve just wrapped up another successful year of Café Book, the partnership between school librarians and librarians from Central Rappahannock Regional Library that brings engaging books and book-related discussion into Fredericksburg-area middle schools. Seventh and eighth graders at seventeen area schools met during their lunch period to discuss books from a list of fourteen titles…
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Book Corner: Children’s books put spotlight on fascinating, inspiring women

Women’s History Month is a chance to highlight children’s books about remarkable women, both well-known and not, who made significant contributions in their fields, paved the way for women who came after them, or simply led fascinating lives. The names of male leaders of the American colonial and revolutionary eras are well known. But there…
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