The Christmas Book Flood
All around the world winter is synonymous with colder, darker times. Iceland, a country roughly the size of Ohio, receives a meager 5...
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Beth Emmons
- Nov 23
- 2 min
Mrs. Emmons Recommends- A Blog For Grown-ups Helping Little Readers
Greetings Grown-ups of Little Readers! Are you new to this blog? If so, welcome! I’m Mrs. Emmons, Early Learning Specialist at...
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Chelsea Keat
- Nov 21
- 3 min
The Books We’re Grateful For
Gratitude is at the forefront of our hearts and minds this week as we gather with friends and family to celebrate Thanksgiving and the...
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Chelsea Keat
- Nov 14
- 3 min
How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything
I was 27 years old when I lost my job (budget cuts) and my roommate (mold allergy) in the same day. I cried and sulked around my...
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Chelsea Keat
- Nov 7
- 3 min
A Special Visit from Author, Illustrator, and Upside Down Thinker
Beatrice Zinker, main character in Shelley Johannes’ middle grade fiction chapter book series, is an unsinkably optimistic, tree-loving,...
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Beth Emmons
- Nov 3
- 2 min
Welcome to 'Mrs. Emmons Recommends'!
A Blog for Grown-ups Helping Little Readers Greetings Grown-ups of Little Readers! I’m Mrs. Emmons, Early Learning Specialist at...
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Chelsea Keat
- Oct 31
- 3 min
Native American Heritage Month
“For a very long time editors and white readership have demanded Indigenous fiction to be very performative—to be a sort of ‘Let me dance...
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Chelsea Keat
- Oct 24
- 3 min
The Medium Is the Message
Last month my family spent a few days in west Michigan while my husband ran the Holland- Haven Marathon, a 26.2 mile course stretching...
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Chelsea Keat
- Oct 17
- 3 min
What to Read When You Don’t Know What to Read
There was a season of my life directly after college where I devoured books on spirituality and mysticism, pouring over authors like...
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Pamela Williams
- Oct 9
- 2 min
Frankenmuth Library Names Michelle Duclos as Interim Director
The Frankenmuth Wickson District Library is excited to name Michelle Duclos as Interim Library Director. Michelle brings with her an...
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Pamela Williams
- Oct 3
- 2 min
TeenTober
Throughout the month of October the Young Adult Library Association (YALSA) is introducing a new event called TeenTober, a nationwide...
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Chelsea Keat
- Sep 27
- 3 min
A Season of Change at the Frankenmuth Library
German novelist Hermann Hesse once said, “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” Nothing...
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Chelsea Keat
- Sep 20
- 2 min
Banned Books Week: “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.”
You’ve probably read one of the following classics: The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The Lord of...
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Chelsea Keat
- Sep 13
- 3 min
Library Card Sign Up Month: The Best Free Gift You’ll Ever Receive
My husband was in fifth grade when he tied a cardboard box to the handlebars of a brand-new 1995 black and yellow 10 speed bike. He rode...
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Chelsea Keat
- Sep 6
- 3 min
I <3 Audiobooks
As a mom of a two-year-old and a 6-month-old, I am in one of the busier and more exhausting stages of life. I don’t have as much time to...
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Chelsea Keat
- Aug 31
- 2 min
Why Representation Matters
I still remember my first day of 1st grade at St. Lorenz—not the weather, who dropped me off that day, or what outfit I chose to wear—but...
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Chelsea Keat
- Aug 25
- 2 min
400 Readers, 40 Days, and Foam: A Celebratory End to the Summer Reading Program
Last Tuesday afternoon, August 16, a cannon launched a continual stream of white foam twenty to thirty feet across the grassy commons of...
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Chelsea Keat
- Aug 19
- 3 min
Reading in Community
We often think of reading as a solitary act—something that occurs between the reader and the book they are holding—but in reality,...
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Chelsea Keat
- Aug 10
- 3 min
Hello, Goodbye
This week we welcome the new Early Learning Specialist, Beth Emmons, as we bid farewell to Cheri Stainforth, beloved staff member who has...
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Chelsea Keat
- Aug 3
- 2 min
Olga Dies Dreaming
I had thirty pages to go and I had to get out of the house. I drove to Heritage Park, walked along the path to the river, and sat on the...
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