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Support early literacy and sign up for a year-round reading club!

If your child is 0-5, try our 1KB4K program (1,000 books before Kindergarten).

Kindergarten through 8th graders read different kinds of books and earn patches in our Beginning Reader or Independent Reader Patch Clubs.

Continue Reading "Calling All Super Readers" →

“Are there a lot of bugs in your house?” the medical resident queried me tentatively. 

First, nervous laughter.

Then, an attempt to sound convincing:

“Ummm, you know…just the occasional spider or housefly…I mean, everyone gets some bugs, right?”

Continue Reading "Helping Kids Become Readers: Let me Put a Bug in Your Ear" →

What do library cards, Amazing Breads and Cakes, and Toy Story 4 have in common?

Library Card Sign-Up Month at DPPL! 

Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Bo Peep and friends are on an adventure to promote the value of a library card.

Signing up for a library card opens a world of infinite possibilities.

Libraries offer resources and services that help people pursue their passions and give students the tools to succeed in school and beyond.

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I have been working in bookstores and libraries for most of my professional career.

And I’ve recognized a distinct list of major authors whose work seems to somehow remain out of my reach due to my own magnified perceptions.

Continue Reading "We Have Come Not to Praise Books, But to Read Them" →

In the youth services department at the Des Plaines Public Library, we proud of our relationship with the Westerhold Early Learning Center (ELC), which is a preschool centric building in district 62. 

Continue Reading "Working with the ELC" →