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🌎 Raising readers who ask "why?"

📚🌎 Books for Earth Day 🌱💛Here are a few of our favorite reads to help kids connect with, care for, and celebrate our pla...
04/22/2026

📚🌎 Books for Earth Day 🌱💛

Here are a few of our favorite reads to help kids connect with, care for, and celebrate our planet:

The Mess That We Made — Michelle Lord
How to Say Hello to a Worm — Kari Percival
The Night Before Earth Day — Natasha Wing
We Are Water Protectors — Carole Lindstrom
Thank You, Earth — April Pulley Sayre
Hey, Water! — Antoinette Portis
I Am One: A Book of Action — Susan Verde
The Hike — Alison Farrell
All the Water in the World — George Ella Lyon

Small readers → big impact 🌍✨





🌎💚 Happy Earth Day, friends! 💚🌎The Earth is our home—and even the smallest hands can help take care of it. 🌱✨We can read...
04/22/2026

🌎💚 Happy Earth Day, friends! 💚🌎

The Earth is our home—and even the smallest hands can help take care of it. 🌱✨
We can read, explore, plant, pick up trash, and show love to our planet every single day. 🔆

Because when we take care of the Earth… the Earth takes care of us. 🌍💛

📚 + 🌿 + 💧 = big change (even from little people!)

What’s one kind thing you’re doing for our planet today? 🌎

☮️💛&📚
04/22/2026

☮️💛&📚




📚✨ National Library Week | April 19–25 ✨📚“Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card.” — ArthurAnd honestly… t...
04/22/2026

📚✨ National Library Week | April 19–25 ✨📚

“Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card.” — Arthur

And honestly… they were right.

Libraries are one of the last truly free, community-centered spaces we have. Yes, they’re filled with stories—but they’re also filled with opportunity.

From the shelves (hello childhood classics like Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, and Little Red Riding Hood) to everything beyond them—libraries are doing the most:
💛 museum passes
🧡 state park entry
💚 mobile hotspots
💙 instruments + maker tools
💜 classes, tutoring, legal resources, and more

It’s not just about access to books. It’s about access to knowledge, creativity, connection, and community.

And sometimes it’s about those full-circle moments too—like Azara proudly showing her “Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card” shirt to Mychal Threets at Phoenix’s Be My Neighbor Day… because it matched his tattoo 🥹📚

That’s the magic of libraries.
They don’t just build readers—
they build belonging.

Art by: Pip Wren “There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you... until the day you ...
04/20/2026

Art by: Pip Wren

“There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you... until the day you begin to share your stories. And all at once, in the room where no one else is quite like you, the world opens itself up a little wider to make some space for you.”

The Day You Begin
by Jacqueline Woodson





🌈 Yes! This! ♾️
04/20/2026

🌈 Yes! This! ♾️




🟣Another great one from 🟢🌔“Just let your imagination take you anywhere you want to go.” ✨🎨Bob Ross 🖌️
04/16/2026

🟣Another great one from 🟢

🌔“Just let your imagination take you anywhere you want to go.” ✨

🎨Bob Ross 🖌️





🩶❤️🩵 “Please think of the children first. If you ever have anything to do with their entertainment, their food, their to...
04/16/2026

🩶❤️🩵 “Please think of the children first. If you ever have anything to do with their entertainment, their food, their toys, their custody, their day or night care, their health care, their education - listen to the children, learn about them, learn from them. Think of the children first.”

- Fred Rogers 🩶❤️🩵





✨📚 Library Fun Fact! 📚✨I was watching Super Why!—a favorite in our house—and spotted something SO cool! In the opening s...
04/15/2026

✨📚 Library Fun Fact! 📚✨

I was watching Super Why!—a favorite in our house—and spotted something SO cool! In the opening scene, Wyatt is standing between books labeled 398.22 👀

That number comes from the Dewey Decimal System (the way libraries organize books)… and guess what it means?

398.22 = folklore!
That’s where you’ll find stories about legendary heroes like Robin Hood, John Henry, Hua Mulan, and Pecos Bill 🏹🌵

So basically… Wyatt was standing right in the section full of magical stories and big adventures 💫📖

Next time you’re at the library, see if you can find 398.22!

📕📙📗📘📕📙📗📘📕📙📗📘📕📙📗📘





PARENTING HACK: When you’re exhausted and your kids want to PLAY PLAY PLAY, choose the game “What’s on my butt” — a game...
04/14/2026

PARENTING HACK: When you’re exhausted and your kids want to PLAY PLAY PLAY, choose the game “What’s on my butt” — a game where the parent sprawls facedown on the couch and has to guess what objects the kid is setting down on their butt. 😆 A toy dinosaur? An orange? Who cares, you’re lying down.

Best. Idea. Ever. 🤩

(via on IG)





🌈 Every single Autistic person is unique, that’s why it’s a spectrum. ♾️ •Joy of Autism
04/13/2026

🌈 Every single Autistic person is unique, that’s why it’s a spectrum. ♾️

•Joy of Autism





🌼 📚 April is FULL of opportunities to learn, connect, and grow 🌱📚From poetry to problem-solving, libraries to community ...
04/13/2026

🌼 📚 April is FULL of opportunities to learn, connect, and grow 🌱📚

From poetry to problem-solving, libraries to community care—there’s something here for every kind of learner.

Which one are you leaning into this month? 👇

📝 National Poetry Month
💵 Financial Literacy Month
♾️ Autism Acceptance Month
📚 School Library Month
🖐🏾Volunteer Month
🟰Math Awareness Month

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