NEW BOOKS: JANUARY 2020

NEW BOOKS: JANUARY 2020

Are you tired of reading the same ole’ books? HAVE NO FEAR! Your friends at the Children’s Library in Homewood have some amazing NEW options for your awesome readers! Instead of only listing new books, each person in TCL chose a new book from the shelves, read them, and wrote a personalize statement about what…

Martin Luther King Jr., Day: “A Place to Land”

Martin Luther King Jr., Day: “A Place to Land”

If you don’t know anything else about Martin Luther King Jr., you are definitely familiar with Dr. King’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech that was spoken to millions of people at the March of Washington on August 28th, 1963. His speech became the catapult to bring about justice and equality for African Americans during…

National Squirrel Appreciation Day

National Squirrel Appreciation Day

Yep, I know what you’re thinking…“National Squirrel Appreciation Day?!?” Uh-huh! National Squirrel Appreciation Day is an actual day! A real day! But here’s why! In 2001, Christy Hargrove, who is an wildlife rehabilitation specialist, founded National Squirrel Appreciation in Asheville, North Carolina. Christy created this day to encourage people to build kind attitudes towards these…