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Library Resources for Children's Gardening

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A study done in 2021 detailed how a majority of children from ages 4-7 are confused if their food comes from a plant or animal.  Creating and planning a garden addresses those concerns by teaching children the life cycle of a plant from seed to harvest. Spring is the perfect time to start planning for a summer garden.  The Richmond Public Library has many resources available to help caregivers teach children about food sources and how to garden.  Whether one lives on a large plot of land or in a tiny apartment with a window or balcony,...

Let's Hear it for the Ladies

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In honor of Women's History Month, check out these newly updated biographical fiction booklists: Let's Hear It For Bad Girls and Nasty Women: Ladies We Love to Loathe Let's Hear It For Disobedient Women: Ladies Who Stepped Out of Line Let's Hear It For the Ladies The Ladies of Hollywood's Heyday: Glitz, Glamour, Grittiness Let's Hear It For Her Majesty: Queens, Princesses, Consorts, and Other Royal Ladies Let's Hear It For The Muses: Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Daughters Let's Hear It For The...

Storytime at Home: Tea Party Time!

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Welcome to the Storytime at Home series! Every other week, we share a list of book options tied to a kid-approved theme, a craft you can set up to go along with the theme, songs/rhymes you can do during storytime, and additional enrichment activities. All books are available at Richmond Public Library, and crafts will involve items you likely have at home already! Our hope is that we can make it easy for you to share stories with your little ones and create a little bit of library magic at home.  P.S. Love library storytimes? Take a...

March Book Chat with the Youth Services Team

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Welcome to the another installment in our series of blog posts featuring children's books we're currently loving! "Book Chat with the Youth Services Team" features one book recommendation from each of our Youth Services team members. We cover a variety of books from fiction to non-fiction, picture books to chapter books, graphic novels and more! We hope that this month's reading recommendations get you excited about some awesome new books we've added to our collection as well as some oldies but goodies....

Picture Books to Get Ready for March Madness!

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  With Super Bowl LVIII now in the books and the opening day of baseball over a month away, it is time to get ready for March Madness! March Madness is the annual NCAA Division 1 basketball tournament that first began in 1939.  The initial tournament consisted of 8 teams playing for the title.  Since 1985, the number of teams playing increased to its current 64. The term “March Madness” was first coined in 1939 by Illinois high school official Henry V. Porter.  The NCAA tournament wasn’t referred to as March Madness until the...