Monthly Archives: March 2020

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Nursery Rhymes Live!

Nursery Rhymes offer great skills for early learning, from babies and toddlers through age 8 years. Have your older children act out some of their favorite nursery rhymes for the little ones, or put on a show for parents after supper! You can find “new to you” nursery rhymes on […]

Watch Stories Online and Make a Puppet Show!

When you can’t get to the library, let the stories come to you! The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Click below to check it out:https://www.storylineonline.net/ If that site isn’t working, you can also watch Storyline […]

Ideas for Entertaining the Kids at Home

Are you looking for ideas to help keep the children engaged when public venues are closed? The Library is here to help! Author/illustrator Mo Willems is presenting Lunch Doodles at noon every day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjaYnyCJDdU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0K99Zehagf3v1bOUuSsntL3NQEoPh6F6RJxGRlyH0NnbkvQuGelXHwrc8). Author/illustrator Jan Brett offers coloring pages based on her book illustrations, but if you don’t have […]

Library Program Cancellations

The Franklin Township Library is following the lead of Somerset County and canceling all public programs from Sunday, March 15, through Tuesday, March 31. One-on-one computer sessions are not affected by this, and individual organizations that booked a meeting room for this time period will make their own decisions about […]

Great new YA book

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting author Jennifer Voigt Kaplan at the Franklin Middle School – Hamilton Campus and hear her speak about writing her new book Crushing the Red Flowers. This book was a fabulous and engaging historical fiction about the prelude to the Holocaust in Germany. You […]