My good friend, Laleh, is from Iran and every time I go to the library I see someone who reminds me of Laleh — someone with dark wavy hair and olive skin that never looks pale or washed out even in the middle of a sun-deprived Canadian winter, someone with a gracious manner and a ready smile. It’s easy to want to be more like someone else, and all I can say is that’s true for me with Laleh.
In recognition of the transformative role of books in the lives of children and young people, The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) is working to establish Lampedusa’s first children’s library. To build the library’s collection, the Italian section of IBBY has gathered outstanding wordless picture books from 23 countries. To showcase the library, an exhibit of more than 100 renowned wordless picture books, called “Silent Books: Final Destination Lampedusa” has been on tour around the world. After stops in Italy, Mexico and Austria, the exhibit travelled to Edmonton and Vancouver. And from November 2nd to December 11th, this exhibit will be at North York Central Library.
Back in 1945, when children's author Margaret Wise Brown woke up and wrote down the words to a book that had come to her in a dream, no one imagined that this book, first called "Goodnight Room", would become a classic loved by generations of children around the world. Today, almost 70 years after that […]
If C is for Culture and D is for Days, then E is for Everyone (can participate!) Please join us at North York Central Library on Saturday, Sept. 28th at 2 pm for an interactive production by Red Bear Collective featuring First Nations storytelling, music and dance. Find out what happens when Mugwa (Bear) wakes […]
I'm Not Quite Miss Rumphius and this is the blog for the Children's Department at North York Central Library. Welcome back. * * * * * * Becoming a new paren’t means entering the fantastical world of teeny, tiny things. There's your baby, of course, a darling little handful and much nicer, much better than […]
Hello Everyone, I'm Not Quite Miss Rumphius and this is the blog for the Children's Department at North York Central Library. Welcome back. * * * * * * My good friend, Laleh, is from Iran and every time I go to the library I see someone who reminds me of Laleh — someone with […]
Hello Everyone, I'm Not Quite Miss Rumphius and this is the blog for the Children's Department at North York Central Library. Welcome back. Maurice Sendak, acclaimed author of Where the Wild Things Are, Outside Over There, and many other children's books died earlier today. He was 83 years old. It's difficult to sum up the […]
Hello Everyone, I'm Not Quite Miss Rumphius and this is the blog for the Children's Department at North York Central Library. Welcome back! Brian Selznick's giant door stopper of a book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, has a perfectly nice cover. But it's not ever going to be the most inviting book to pick up, […]
Hello Everyone, I'm Not Quite Miss Rumphius and this is the blog for the Children's Department at North York Central Library. Welcome back! Every paren’t or caregiver of a young child knows about those days when nothing goes smoothly and everyone, big and small, is out of sorts with the world. Those kind of days […]
Hello Everyone, I'm Not Quite Miss Rumphius and this is the blog for the Children's Department at North York Central Library. Welcome back! Sometimes, so the saying goes, it's not the destination that counts. It's the journey and what we see along the way that really matters. That was the case for me one day […]