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Mark your calendar! A retrospective exhibition of nearly one hundred artworks by visual artist and author opens at the next month on April 15. Works will include original line drawings, sketches, and finished illustrations, from sixteen of Jeffers’s picture books, including the wildly popular The Day the Crayons Quit and its sequel, The Day the Crayons Came Home, Here We Are, The Incredible Book Eating Boy, This Moose Belongs to Me, and Once Upon an Alphabet. https://high.org/exhibition/oliver-jeffers-15-years-of-picturing-books/

Oliver Jeffers (Irish, born 1977), The Day the Crayons Quit Cover Art, 2013, mixed media, gouache, crayon, and pencil on watercolor paper, National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, Abilene, Texas. © Oliver Jeffers.

50 States, 50 Love Stories From sea to shining sea, here’s a tour of unforgettable fiction that explores matters of the heart.

Netherlands makes trains free on national book day for those who show a book instead of ticket Special book given out as gift to readers during National Book Week is accepted instead of ticket

Playbrary: A new vision of the neighborhood library Libraries are becoming community spaces that support children’s cognitive and social development.

Parents, please read to your children 😊

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Announcing the PINES 20th anniversary library card design contest winner! Winning PINES 20th anniversary library card design. Congratulations to Megan Weatherford, a patron of the Watkinsville/Oconee County Library, for winning our PINES 20th anniversary library card design contest! Megan Weatherford, winner of

CMS girls... this is great advice from some of our favorite Women...

Jane Fonda, Anita Hill, Amy Poehler, and Other Influential Women on Building Confidence Start by exploring your interests.

VIDEO: Multiple raccoons take over the library at Arkansas State JONESBORO, Ark. -- An Arkansas State University alumnus says he was surprised to spot a few curious critters running around the campus library.

Laundromat Libraries Aim To Boost Literacy In Milwaukee Over the next few months, Milwaukee residents washing clothes at laundromats will start to see something different: mini libraries. A new city office

"The People Who Helped Me the Most Were the Librarians" — Rep. Elijah Cummings | School Library Journal Speaking about the librarianswho stayedpasttheir regularhours at the Enoch Pratt Free Library to helphim withschoolwork, the longtime Baltimore congressman gotemotional.

Top 150 Recommended African-American Children’s Books Children Book authors and avid readers contributed their favorite children’s Books to a list of the, “Top 150 Recommended African-American Children’s Books.”