Add This Event to the Winter Olympics ASAP: Book Curling
It’s been a little bit since I’ve seen a good “using books but not for reading” video on social media. Back in the day, the book domino scene was hot, but that trend eventually cooled.
So I was happy to see that the Albany Public Library is taking part in the Booklympics, where the first event is book curling.
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Do you or your patrons have Winter Olympics fever? Try this in your library today.
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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Have you seen people playing Go Fish with James Patterson or Danielle Steel author jacket pictures? Those are funny.
We hosted a Baby Olympics this morning: babies “curling” with mops, bobsledding in laundry baskets and playing hockey with plush snowballs; it was a very well attended event–fun for all–gold medals all around!