#How To

A Guide to Spring Cleaning Your Books

Spring cleaning your books just got a whole lot easier with this handy guide and checklist for your physical and digital reading life.

Reading Tips for Parents To Help Beginning Readers

Find yourself suddenly teaching a beginning reader? These reading tips for parents can give you a lifeline as you get started.

How to Host a Book Tasting for Adults at a Public Library

There are resources for kids' book tastings, but what about the grown people? Here's a how-to for hosting a book tasting for adults at a public library.

What To Do If You CAN’T Read Right Now

Can't read lately as a side effect of COVID-19 stress? Here are some way Book Rioters are embracing stories while they can't read during social-distancing.

How to Support Authors With Books Out During Social Isolation

If you're looking for ways to help support your favorite authors while social distancing limits access to new releases, check out this guide.

How to Get the Most Out of Storytime: Tips from a Children’s Librarian

Now, I recognize that many caregivers who come to storytime are just as uninformed about how to get the most out of storytime as I was when I first started.

Just Like the Books: DIY Flower Crown

From LITTLE WOMEN to ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, DIY Flower Crowns are perfect for a Spring Picnic and give you plenty of scope for the imagination.

9 Fun Sight Word Games for New Readers

Consider playing these sight word games to master letter recognition with your preschooler, state capitols with your fifth grader, and more.

Get Your Child Hooked On Reading With 1000 Books Before Kindergarten

Looking for a fun way to get your young child interested in reading? Try the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program. Here's how to participate.

How to Read to a Child

One reader draws from personal experience to give tips on how to read to a child, and making it an enjoyable experience for both child and adult.