I was recently going through my camera roll and came across our 2022 snow day when my girls and their friends spent the day exchanging reading videos, including this one of Here Comes Valentine Cat by Deborah Underwood and Claudia Rueda (one of our favorite read-alouds; the whole series is delightful). If you’re in the mood for a 10 minute storytime please enjoy! I tried to add closed captioning but they did not come out well so sound on for some cute commentary from then 6 year old librarian Rose ..read more

hi everyone! happy summer! I wanted to fill everyone in on our plans for the next few months. I have been working hard helping one of my favorite bookstores, Half Price Books, create content for their summer reading program — which means that we’re participating, too! it starts this week and there are four themes: June 6: Camp Creativity (arts & crafts) — now live!  June 20: Camp Discovery (math & science) July 5: Camp Motion (sports & dance) July 18: Camp Imagination (music & drama) HPB plans to kick off each theme with a free downloadable content bundle (sound famil ..read more

hi everyone! the Spring content bundle is now live! reminder it’s free, but make sure you’re signed up on email. I went ahead and put together a big list of recommended Spring titles on our Bookshop page — more than 200 titles! I wish we had time to read them all. let me know in the comments if I missed any of your favorites and I’ll be sure to add them. thanks, guys! kristen ..read more

Hi everyone! Happy Valentine’s Day weekend! I am always so inspired by everyone’s love-ly craft and activity ideas every year so I thought it would be fun to put together a big guide of ideas, in case anyone needs something fun to do this weekend! Download the full list of craft and activity ideas here, or visit any of these Instagram guides! valentine’s baking ideas — heart cookies, heart waffles, heart toast, heart pie! valentine’s craft ideas — crayon hearts, cardboard hearts, nature hearts, paper hearts! valentine’s party + gift ideas — love letter exchanges, post boxes, surprise ba ..read more

And that’s a wrap on summer camp, you guys! If you’ve joined us every week since the beginning, congratulations!! We now have Super Reader Award certificates (and ribbons!) available to download and print here. If you joined us mid-summer, or you missed a week or two and you want to catch up, good news! We put together a ✨BONUS ROUND✨ packet which includes a fun printable story map! Read one book for every week you missed, have your littles color in the badge(s), and feel awesome about printing out that Super Reader Award at the end! Have fun and happy reading! Oh, and P.S. — the bonus packet ..read more

some of our favorites! click to visit Bookshop to shop, support independent bookstores, and create your own wishlists ..read more

some of our favorites! click to visit Bookshop to shop, support independent bookstores, and create your own wishlists ..read more

some of our favorites! click to visit Bookshop to shop, support independent bookstores, and create your own wishlists ..read more

some of our favorites! click to visit Bookshop to shop, support independent bookstores, and create your own wishlists. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize ..read more

some of our favorites! click to visit Bookshop to shop, support independent bookstores, and create your own wishlists. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize ..read more