Last week at Valencia Library we held three days of Lego for all of the kids in the area who were on spring break. Everything was awesome and as always we had many master builders. For this year’s Lego Creations @ the Library we had a special project for everyone to play with.…
It’s Spring Break and your home has looked better, the weather isn’t the best and your children are B.O.R.E.D. Bring them to the Library! We have Lego Events, Board Games and best of all: Books! Reading together, or individually, is a great way to keep your children’s minds engaged while they away from school. Read a…
Sight words. Decoding. Vocabulary. Context. That’s the ‘How’ of reading. But what about the ‘Why’? I know why I read! I will read anything that is interesting to me, and I will read – ravenously – anything that fills an informational or emotional need. All the reading skills in the…
Miss Chris is the Youth Services Librarian at the Old Town Newhall Library. She grew up as an only child. Miss Chris loved to entertain herself as a kid by reading a lot of books. Reading is still one of her favorite activities! Some of her favorite adult books to…
Did you know? Blue Whales can be up to 90 feet long and weigh up to 150 tons! Learn all about Balaenoptera musculus (more commonly known as the Blue Whale) on our Amazing Animals database! Put 22 elephants on one side of a balance scale. Put one blue whale on the other. The…
Many parents are surprised to find that we still use Dewey Decimal System in our library. Maybe they haven’t seen it in so long that they forgot it existed. Maybe they heard other libraries were using different systems for non-fiction. Maybe they never learned how to use it in the…
When searching the library catalog it is best to use diverse methods to find what you want. This post will briefly touch on different ways to search for the same subject. At the top of our catalog there three boxes you can select from: Keyword Search For, Search By and…
Angie has been a children’s librarian at the Canyon Country Library for two years. She is the mom of two daughters who are in preschool. Thanks to her girls, Angie can sing all of the “Yo Gabba Gabba “ songs! Angie is the second oldest out of a family of…
A beloved author, Theodore Seuss Geisel is having a birthday on March 2nd and Santa Clarita Library is Celebrating! “By the time Geisel died, he had written forty-eight books that, when combined, had sold more than 200 million copies. Through these books, he spearheaded a movement to make…
So, your child lost a book. It happens. It happens a lot. The worst thing for me to imagine is that a child is afraid to return to the library because she lost a book. She probably thinks that she’s the only kid who has done it. She probably thinks…
