Sports Poetry Books  While it’s no secret that the Children’s Library has an extensive collection of poetry for children, young sports fans may not realize that more than a few of those books feature poems about their favorite sports.  Here is a sampling: Adoff, Arnold: The Basket Counts! Sports Pages Fehler, Gene: Change-Up:  Baseball Poems [...]

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Batter Up! With the Cleveland Indians 17th home opener at Progressive Field (yes, it’s been 17 years!) set for April 12, 2010, the Children’s Library has put together a list of baseball and other sports Web sites designed specifically for kids.  Some are just for fun.  Others – like Math Baseball – have an educational [...]

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Don’t forget the wonderful rhythms and rhymes of Mother Goose when you are looking for poetry to read to children.  The Mother Goose rhymes have come down to us through the generations because they are easy to remember  and recite.  You don’t have to understand all of the words or the history behind the rhymes.  [...]

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Here are some recent poetry books recommended by our Children’s Library.  Click on the blue link to get to the catalog entry for the title: Franco, Betsy.  Messing Around on the Monkey Bars: and Other School Poems for 2 Voices  19 simple poems for reading aloud highlighted by colorful illustrations.  Ghigna, Charles.   Score: 50 Poems to [...]

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Here is Elaine’s April Fool’s Day Page with the history and traditions of the day.

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