{"id":618,"date":"2011-09-25T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2011-09-25T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T03:00:08","slug":"go-check-them-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Go Check Them Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would sing the praises of my local libraries\u00a0again. Libraries provide our children with so many different choices that build motivation\u00a0to read. I would dare any child to walk into a library and NOT want to walk out\u00a0with a book. IMPOSSIBLE, I tell you!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_623\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.betherebedtimestories.com\/book.aspx?bookID=61\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-623\" class=\"size-full wp-image-623 \" title=\"ABCLetters_ForBlog\" src=\"https:\/\/betherebedtimestories.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/abcletters_forblog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/abcletters_forblog.jpg 400w, https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/abcletters_forblog-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;ABC Letters in the Library&quot; - Lobster Press on BeThereBedtimeStories.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most libraries have a plethora of social activities for\u00a0everyone from toddlers to\u00a0retirees. These include storytime, book club, featured speakers, puzzles, playthings, aquariums, listening stations, computers loaded with educational software and more! My children and I have taken advantage of many of these offerings.<\/p>\n<p>My girls are now in school and get to visit their school\u00a0libraries every week to check books out. However, I am still taking advantage\u00a0of my local library\u2019s offerings. Currently, my local library is providing me\u00a0with books on CD in order for me to listen to novels on my way home each day. \u00a0As a reading specialist at a middle school, I wanted to be familiar with the\u00a0literature selections that each grade level chooses to study and so far I have\u00a0found every single one at my local library on CD. I love my local libraries!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would sing the praises of my local libraries\u00a0again. Libraries provide our children with so many different choices that build motivation\u00a0to read. I would dare any child to walk into a library and NOT want to walk out\u00a0with a book. IMPOSSIBLE, I tell you! &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,67],"tags":[57,58,146,147,148],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-tips-for-reading","tag-book","tag-child","tag-libraries","tag-library","tag-school-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}