Beatrice Zinker, main character in Shelley Johannes’ middle grade fiction chapter book series, is an unsinkably optimistic, tree-loving,...

A Blog for Grown-ups Helping Little Readers Greetings Grown-ups of Little Readers! I’m Mrs. Emmons, Early Learning Specialist at...

“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...

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...

There was a season of my life directly after college where I devoured books on spirituality and mysticism, pouring over authors like...

The Frankenmuth Wickson District Library is excited to name Michelle Duclos as Interim Library Director. Michelle brings with her an...

Throughout the month of October the Young Adult Library Association (YALSA) is introducing a new event called TeenTober, a nationwide...

German novelist Hermann Hesse once said, “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” Nothing...

You’ve probably read one of the following classics: The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The Lord of...

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...

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...

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...

Last Tuesday afternoon, August 16, a cannon launched a continual stream of white foam twenty to thirty feet across the grassy commons of...

We often think of reading as a solitary act—something that occurs between the reader and the book they are holding—but in reality,...

This week we welcome the new Early Learning Specialist, Beth Emmons, as we bid farewell to Cheri Stainforth, beloved staff member who has...

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...

When Cheri Stainforth, the library’s Early Learning Specialist, visits elementary schools to talk about the importance of reading, she...

In the children’s book Max and Nana Go to the Park, a little boy, Max, falls and scrapes his knee at the playground. He gets an ouchie...

One of the telltale signs that summer is in full swing here in Frankenmuth—besides the extraordinary display of annuals blooming in the...

This is your new library columnist. If you’re a frequent patron of the library, you probably read in last week’s paper that Roz Weedman...