Post Tagged with: "Verona Public Library"
Are You A Happy Hippo Or An Angry Duck?
One of the best things about picture books is that they help children, and sometimes adults, speak about things in a way in which they otherwise might not be able to. During a visit to the library a couple of weeks ago, my four year old and I found this book, Happy Hippo, Angry Duck. [...]
Favorite Picture Books
Last week I took a trip to the library with two of my three kids and we left with quite the stack of books. I’ve depleted my own in-home library of favorite books to use for Susanna Hill’s weekly Perfect Picture Books series and was in need of some new material. Additionally, my four year [...]
Great Picture Books: Z Is For Moose
This week is a special week in the world of Picture Books. On this date, in 1904, Dr. Seuss was born in Massachusetts as Theodor Seuss Geisel. With original words and characters, unmatched rhyming, and simple illustrations, Dr. Suess appeals to both the youngest of readers with books like One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish and those moving [...]
Great Picture Books: ‘The Top Job’
Last week, we told you about a resource for some great picture books for children: Children’s book author Susanna Hill’s blog featuring her Perfect Picture Book Friday series. I looked for last week’s featured book, The Monster Returns, in the Verona Public Library and while it was not part of the inventory, Cheryl Ashley, the [...]
How To Find Great Picture Books
I started following Susanna Hill’s blog sometime at the end of the summer and I’m glad I did. Hill is a children’s book author, and someday I’d like to be one, too. Her posts are entertaining, informative, and easy to read. All good things when I’m squeezing writing into my full-time job of mother-of-three. In [...]
Verona Public Library To Lend E-Books
Since the 1890s Verona residents have frequented the Verona Public Library for anything from children’s books to magazines, to archived newspapers, to newly released books, and encyclopedias. All this time though, even with the ability to reserve or renew a book through the VPL Web site, we haven’t been able to download one. That’s all [...]
Happy Birthday Bill Trafton!
A recent Huffington Post story named customer service as another example of a lost, or certainly dying, art. As a veteran salesperson for eight years, I find this truly disappointing. Aside from the mantra, “the customer is always right,” there is the mantra “we want a customer to come back.” Customers return to stores, and [...]
Reinventing Verona: Books, Bookstores And eReaders
Verona loves to read. We have the Verona Public Library, one of the original Carnegie grant libraries, and six public school libraries, where increasingly computers sit alongside books. But above all, we have a lot of readers: There’s a furious trade in books between the adults at the Verona Pool in summer. The pool has [...]
Library Book Sale Starts Friday
The Friends of Verona Public Library are holding their annual sale of gently used books. The three-day event kicks off tomorrow night, Friday, November 4, with a members-only sale from 7 to 8:30 p.m. On Saturday, anybody can stop by to buy books from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or 2 to 4 p.m. on [...]
Where In Verona Was It? A Year In Review
A little over a year ago, sitting in Jack’s Cafe, the MyVeronaNJ.com team was brainstorming ideas to get readers more involved with the site. Our traffic was growing rapidly, and readers were reading lots of stories every day, but they weren’t talking back to us as much as we wanted. Then Fred Goode suggested a [...]