The Main Library will reopen Saturday, Oct 26. Holds pending pickup remain available at Looby branch through its closing on Thursday, Oct 24. Then they will be transferred back to the Main Library where you can pick them up beginning Saturday.
In the now 200 years since it was first published, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" has become a beloved staple of many a holiday celebration. You and your family can experience this classic poem in picture books, in oh so many ways!
Add some picture books in translation to your reading routine! Picture books by international creators offer different perspectives, and feature groundbreaking art and narratives.
During a career spanning over six decades, Ashley Bryan (1923-3022) illustrated more than 70 children's picture books in a variety of media and in several genres.
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of Nashville's oldest continuously-operated public cemetery - the Nashville City Cemetery. Nestled quaintly on the northeast side of Fort Negley and just off 4th Ave S, the cemetery might seem like only a quiet piece of Nashville's history, with only the graves of many Nashvillians. But if it could speak, it would have many interesting anecdotes to tell.
Fairy tales teach important life lessons. They teach us to be the hero and to have hope as well as taking responsibility for our own actions. Fairy tales teach us what true beauty is all about.
Do you believe in the magic of a "true love's kiss"? Or the possibility of a "happily ever after"? Watching Amy Adams's performance in the film Enchanted may make even the most skeptical viewer a believer.
The ancient porquior stories and myths are a delightful explanation of the "hows" and "whys" of nature and humanity. Choogie Kingfisher, Cherokee National Treasure, is pictured here telling stories.
El Puppet Truck (Camión de Marionetas)de la Biblioteca estará de gira localmente a partir del 18 de septiembre, justo a tiempo para el Mes de la Herencia Hispana
The news of Toni Morrison's passing on August 5 was met with tributes and gratitude for a life well lived. While she is best known as the author of such novels as The Bluest Eye and Beloved, Morrison also wrote several books for children. It is not yet too early to introduce the children in your life to the work of this incomparable writer.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie offers here nine spooky tales of women haunted by ghosts-both literal and metaphysical. There is no clue, or introduction, to tell us why the focus is on women, only the stories, each with a female protagonist, grappling somewhere between the natural and the supernatural, the definite and the not-quite-defined.
It seems that many of the authors of ghost stories—including M.R. James and H.P. Lovecraft—point to the stories of Sheridan Le Fanu as the preeminent masterpieces of the genre. As a ghost story enthusiast, it took me some time to get to him in my “studies,” but the wait and the reward were both well worth the wait. In a Glass Darkly contains six stories considered by critics to be among Le Fanu’s best works.
One of the most marvelous writers and illustrators of children's literature today, Yuyi Morales mines her Mexican childhood for the magical words and riotous colors that inform her beautiful books. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the prestigious Pura Belpré Medal.
Summer is a great time for getting outside and exploring all the tiny creatures that surround us. Check out these activities and books to help you and your kids learn more about all the creepy crawlies hiding in plain sight!
The book or the movie? An eternal question always likely to instigate some lively debate, although most folks will probably side more often with the book. And every now and then they’re definitely both worth heralding, which is the case here.
I’ve been wrong about a lot of things. The first time I used the internet I typed “X-Men” into a search engine and, finding the results unsatisfactory, said, “This will never catch on.”
Lately I’ve been thinking about Superman. This is not all that unusual, as there are three different’ representations of the character sitting on my desk as I write this, but I’ve been thinking about what he means to the world.
John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps (and its multiple subsequent film and television versions) is likely the work most closely associated with his name.