New Asian Biographies to Celebrate the New Year
Happy Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year! This is a great time to take a look at your shelves and see if they represent the diversity of your community and open windows into the lives of people [...]
Arthur Yorinks and Sergio Ruzzier: Teaching Friendship With One Mean Ant
“Once there was an ant. A really mean ant.” So begins the newest book from author Arthur Yorinks and illustrator Sergio Ruzzier entitled One Mean Ant (Candlewick Press, 2020) that follows a mean [...]
Book Club Boredom Busters: Guest Post by Randi Sonenshine
Randi Sonenshine, children’s book author of The Nest That Wren Built and middle school literacy specialist, shares ways to keep communication going in book clubs using fun games. Read on for some [...]
Representing Our Truth: Guest Post by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Our featured guest author on the Mackin Community blog is Ibtihaj Muhammad, the first Muslim American woman to compete for the United States in the Olympics while wearing a hijab. She is an [...]
The Case For Strategic Planning
It’s like making resolutions, but it’s all about measuring your progress toward keeping them. In practice, I regret that I didn’t create formal plans. I did write at least three goals each year [...]
A New Generation is Taking Action – 50th Anniversary of Earth Day
by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager and Makerspace Specialist Millennials have a bad reputation for being lazy, entitled, and self-obsessed. But since 2015, a group of young [...]
Ivan Brunetti: Making Comics as Easy as A, B, C
It is the middle of winter, and school is back in session after a long holiday break. Teachers and librarians may be ready to hit the books, but some students may not have mentally returned from [...]
