Guest Post: Making Storytimes More Inclusive

Today’s guest post features an interview between two youth services librarians from Beaverton City Library. If you missed the first guest post by this team, check out their Ready, Set, Kindergarten program. I get asked a lot about how to make storytime inclusive to people of all ages and abilities, so I am happy to… Continue reading Guest Post: Making Storytimes More Inclusive

Bilingual Storytime Presenter’s Guide

I am so excited to share this guest post about bilingual storytime today! I am even more excited because the writer is a youth services librarian from my hometown library, Sacramento Public Library!  So many exclamation points! This post is a great follow-up to my Bilingual Storytime Resources as its written by someone who actually… Continue reading Bilingual Storytime Presenter’s Guide

Guest Post: Talking to Kids About Race in Storytime and the Let’s Talk About Race Tooklkit

Today’s guest post continues a conversation about talking to kids about race in storytime that I began to ponder last year. My initial post, Talking to Kids About Race, was followed by a guest post sharing racially diverse storytime booklists.  This guest post by Jessica Bratt delves deeper into the topic of talking to kids… Continue reading Guest Post: Talking to Kids About Race in Storytime and the Let’s Talk About Race Tooklkit

Multilingual Storytimes: A Beginner’s Guide

Way back in February we celebrated International Mother Language Day round these parts. And because I work at a branch that has materials for kids in six different languages I felt it was my duty to try out some of these languages in storytime. Now it’s May which means February was basically last week and I’m finally getting… Continue reading Multilingual Storytimes: A Beginner’s Guide