I hope you enjoy this week's theme: houses, neighborhoods, and architecture. Be sure to click over to the Weekly Readalouds to view this week's selection of recorded readings. Click on the images below to check out these ebooks from the County of Los Angeles public library. And grownups especially, I invite you to take a look at these beautiful maps of neighborhoods during safer-at-home (without a doubt my favorite article I've read about this unusual time). See you (distantly, behind masks) around the neighborhood!
Over the past weeks of safer-at-home we've had an opportunity to experience our homes and neighborhoods in different ways. Our houses have taken on the activities of schoolrooms, tech centers, art studios and music venues, gyms and sports fields, movie theaters, restaurants, bakeries, and cafés. Our neighborhoods are where we stretch our legs and see other people--even though six feet apart and behind masks. This was not a bike-friendly neighborhood before, but it is now. As I walk in the afternoons I hear far more children playing in backyards than I used to. Small gestures like chalked sidewalks combat isolation. It's fair to say we know our homes and our neighborhood better than we did before. For me anyway, I feel even more grateful for both, and more attuned to how these places sustain individuals, families, and our shared community.
I hope you enjoy this week's theme: houses, neighborhoods, and architecture. Be sure to click over to the Weekly Readalouds to view this week's selection of recorded readings. Click on the images below to check out these ebooks from the County of Los Angeles public library. And grownups especially, I invite you to take a look at these beautiful maps of neighborhoods during safer-at-home (without a doubt my favorite article I've read about this unusual time). See you (distantly, behind masks) around the neighborhood!
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Barbara Siegemund-Broka, library resource specialist, maintains this blog to inform Pennekamp students and families about library news and related content. Any opinions expressed here are solely her own.
What's Ms. Barbara reading?How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell
Worth repeating:
His eyes are soft. “Do you know why I became a librarian?” I wait for him to tell me, because of course I don’t. “Dewey,” he says. “As in the decimal system.” I’m not sure if he’s joking or not, but he continues, “I like order. I like organization. The idea of all the information in the world, all organized, everything in its place—I like that idea.” He clears his throat. “But I’ve been doing this job for a long time. And the thing I’ve learned is that stories aren’t about order and organization. They’re about feelings. And the feelings don’t always make sense. See, stories are like …” He pauses, brow furrowing, then nods, satisfied in finding the right comparison: “Water. Like rain. We can hold them tight, but they always slip through our fingers.” I try to hide my shock. Joe doesn’t seem like the poetic type. His caterpillar eyebrows knit together. “That can be scary. But remember that water gives us life. It connects continents. It connects people. And in quiet moments, when the water’s still, sometimes we can see our own reflection.” --From When You Trap a Tiger, by Tae Heller, winner of the 2021 Newbery Medal Archives
August 2021
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