Author Archives: Melissa

Happy June! I hope everyone’s summer is starting SMOOTHLY and GENTLY!!! Here are our fab entries for this week’s roundup: Kathryn has Rainbow Bubbles at Fun with Friends at Storytime. LOVE her idea to use tissue paper, which makes the … Continue reading →

I made this set earlier this year and thank goodness I never posted it because now I have something new for the round up I’m hosting this week! A few years ago I bought all three of the McDonald/Gershator board … Continue reading →

Today is my two-year anniversary of becoming a supervisor and working with a team of storytime providers and early literacy staff at my library! Yesterday I posted this to Facebook, and I wanted to share it here too: Thursday is … Continue reading →

I didn’t quite get this finished in time–either the set OR this post! But this is what I have so far for a version of the Where Does This Go? matching game that Miss Mary Liberry posted FIVE YEARS AGO … Continue reading →

Hi team! Yay I have the round up this week! UPDATE 4/16: I did not think it was possible but someone was up even later than me! Jessica posted a link and I missed it, but you should NOT! It’s … Continue reading →

A couple of months ago, Marge Loch-Wouters suggested that she and I propose a Conversation Starter for ALA Annual 2016 on being intentional about managing our professional and personal time by saying “no” to opportunities. Guess what, I said yes! … Continue reading →

In January I posted this pic in Instagram with the caption “2016 = twenty years of planning storytime.” In 1995 I graduated library school, and in early 1996 I landed my first library job and was given a weekly storytime, … Continue reading →

The weekend of March 4-5 a meme floated around Twitter: For every “like” on a tweet with that image, the poster would list one book. Any book. ANY book! There were no rules, so after putting about 100 books on … Continue reading →

Nothing like getting your act together in time for the 75th day of the year! (nb Thursday night: I pinkie swear I wrote this Monday to post Tuesday, so much for getting my act together) Last week I posted about … Continue reading →

…even if it wasn’t in the way that I had planned on. I was feeling confident, early in 2015, that in completing my first year at my new job, I would be able to clear the time and space to … Continue reading →