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The key to reversing language attrition [losing one’s heritage language] is simple in theory and difficult in practice: Expose your children to the language. “It’s really about time with that language—and high-quality time.”

The Parents Trying to Pass Down a Language They Hardly Speak Losing your family’s language can feel like an inevitable side effect of immigration—but it’s one I want to prevent.

Our infallible routine in Lisbon 🚋 :
Scoop after scoop of immediate gratification 🍒🍦🍒
Followed by page by page delayed gratification
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When your two favorite shops are across the street from each other, all’s right with the world 💕😌

We visited the Takeo library for children in Japan and even though we couldn’t read a word of Japanese we had a very hard time leaving … 🫶🏻
Picture books are universal! 👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏻 🌏 👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏾

This sounds like a typical Madeleine Editions recording session … 😂
Thankfully, our voice actors always come to an agreement (eventually).

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From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, hosts David Tennant and Catherine Tate are joined by Benedict Cumberbatch, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Meera Syal, David Suchet, Rufus Wainwright, Tim Minchin, Gregory Porter, Joseph Fiennes, English National Opera, The Royal Ballet and Akala for a very special evening. Together, they mark the life and work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death. This unique event takes place in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, and celebrates Shakespeare's extraordinary legacy and his enduring influence on all performance art forms - from opera to jazz, dance to musicals.

Even our pumpkin pies look like a story book 😂
Festive 🍂🍁Thanksgiving weekend to you all! Thank you for supporting this little indie publisher 🫶🏻.

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A Virginia library is leading the way in making public spaces more accommodating for parents of small children with its innovative parent-child computer workstations! Located in the children's room at Henrico County Public Library's Fairfield branch, the 'Parent & Child Carrel' feature a computer workstation alongside an enclosed safe play area for babies and toddlers. The design was the brainchild of library staff who had observed that the standard computer lab model didn't work well for parents of young children. "We've seen parents and caregivers who would need to do adult work, like apply for a job or create a document for community college and so on, and if they had little infants and toddlers, we saw that it was very tricky to do," says Barbara Weedman, the Henrico County Public Library Director.

When the library was remodeled, the staff asked the architects if they could include ready-made furniture that addressed this need in the final design. When the architects couldn't find any good options, they asked a small children's furniture company, TMC, in Ann Arbor, Michigan to create a new kind of work carrel that could accommodate both parents and young children. Since the 'Parent & Child Carrels' were unveiled, they've been a tremendous hit with library patrons. As Weedman observed: "Librarians love to help, and we love to give access to people, and it can be tricky when you have little ones. And I think this has resonated with many people, because they can relate, juggling all these things in our busy lives."

For several inspiring children's books about librarians who made books more accessible to people in their communities, we recommend "Junia, The Book Mule of Troublesome Creek" for ages 4 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/junia-the-book-mule), "How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children" for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/miss-moore-thought-otherwise), and "Library On Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile" for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/library-on-wheels)

For two fun kids' books about Mighty Girls who share their love of reading by building their own libraries, we recommend “The Library” for ages 4 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-library) and “Red Knit Cap Girl and the Reading Tree” for ages 3 to 7 (https://www.amightygirl.com/red-knit-cap-girl-tree)

If you or your Mighty Girl want to create your own at-home library, we recommend the 'Personal Library Kit' at https://amzn.to/4d1eDfQ

For more Mighty Girl stories that pay tribute to the wonder of libraries and librarians, visit our blog post "Celebrating a Love of Reading: 35 Mighty Girl Stories about Books, Libraries, and Literacy" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=11656

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A love of books and storytelling is being lost—in part because of educational policy, Katherine Marsh wrote last year.

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We are the ones quietly reading in a crowd. We are the ones who always have our nose in a book. Spotted at , a tribute to .