In celebration of the upcoming Summer Olympics, we’ve created a bibliography listing relevant children’s books that you can find at our library. The downloadable PDF version of the bibliography below has clickable links to make it easy for...
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It’s Women’s History Month, and here at the library we have tons of books about awesome women! Here are some of our recent arrivals about women in sport. Betty Robinson, American Olympic Athlete Unbeatable Betty: Betty Robinson, the First Female...
It’s Women’s History Month, and here at the library we have tons of books about awesome women! Here are some of our recent arrivals about women writers and journalists. A 2021 Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor Book A 2021 Robert F....
It’s Women’s History Month, and here at the library we have tons of books about awesome women! Here are some of our recent arrivals about women in math and science. Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician Maryam’s Magic: The...
Principal of Littlejohn Elementary School Rheon D. Gibson recently stopped by the library to autograph our copies of his Dizz Wizz books. Dizz Wizz is a motivational children’s book series. Mr. Gibson plans to write six more Dizz Wizz books...
We’ve been adding to our Highlighting Black Voices playlist! Check them out here: Highlighting Black Voices playlist. Highlighting Black Voices is the DeKalb Public Library + local community members celebrating Black book creators. Each...
Thanks for joining us this month as we lifted up Black book creators! Local community members read children’s books created by members of the African diaspora, and I think we can all agree that it was a lot of fun! I have two final video to...
The DeKalb Public Library is teaming up with local community members to celebrate Black book creators! Each community member will read a book by a member of the African diaspora. Videos are posted on Mondays and Thursdays on the library’s...
To help you celebrate Black History Month, we have several bibliographies listing great children’s books that you can find at the library. The downloadable versions of the bibliographies below have clickable links to make it easy for you...
Every year, children get to select the winners of Illinois state children’s book awards, including the Monarch Award (for listeners and readers in kindergarten through 3rd grade), the Bluestem Award (for readers in 3rd-5th grade), and the...
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