Volunteer profile: Meet Elizabeth Marshall
Confident readers get their start with a little support from Calgary Reads, and from incredible volunteers like Elizabeth Marshall.
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50 Books to Celebrate the Moon Landing
The beauty of the night sky is an enduring sight. Night after night, the moon reveals itself, re-capturing our imaginations, and inspiring all ages to dream. A child's natural curiosity towards space often starts with the moon. What’s that, out [...]
A Student Project Becomes A Powerful PSA
My name is Christina Kampel, I am a Grade 11 student at Bishop Carroll High School, and I am the creator of the stop-motion Calgary Reads Piggy PSA. This project was originally for a Visual Media module in my English course, where we had to create a [...]
Golden Rules: Children’s Books About Kindness
Guest Blogger, Anne Logan
There's no question that kids benefit from being read to. From birth to adulthood, being read aloud to is a wonderful experience that everyone should enjoy on a regular basis, why do you think audiobooks are so popular? [...]
Bonding Through Books: Read With Dad at the Children’s Reading Place
Photo credit: Sandy Oakley Photography
As a small child, reading at night with a parent had a certain magic to it! Tucked into the cozy comfort of bed with the lights low and an adult nestled beside me with my favourite book, created a sense of [...]
Heyday in the Mayday
Guest Blogger Terry Lindberg, Children's Reading Place Reader In Residence
What happened this summer? Well not much you see...except for the black bear that climbed up our tree! Bear, over there, beware, take care, scare, say a prayer…love [...]
A fly on the book shelf
I read, voraciously. I read for pleasure, for purpose and everything in between! Every space I inhabit at home and at work is full of books. I give and receive books. People send me greeting cards showing people reading. I have book bags galore with [...]
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sHelfie Podcast – Episode 5 – Mark Sakamoto
We chat with Mark Sakamoto, Author and CBC Canada Reads 2018 winner about forgiveness and how being an author has changed him as a reader.
Calgary Reads and the Alberta Reads Network are featuring the favourite books of our special friends and [...]
sHelfie Podcast – Episode 3 – Dave Kelly
We catch up with Dave Kelly, host, interviewer, writer, and entrepreneur and chat about everything literacy, including the book that Dave started reading again as soon as he finished it.
Calgary Reads and the Alberta Reads Network are featuring [...]
sHelfie Podcast – Episode 2 – Micheline Maylor
In episode two we connect with Micheline Maylor who, on April 25, 2016, was sworn in as Calgary's first female Poet Laureate for a two-year term, and acted as an ambassador of the arts to the citizens of Calgary.
Calgary Reads and the Alberta [...]
The Apple Box Library
Guest Blogger Terry Lindberg, Children's Reading Place Reader In Residence
Aww… summer, the time of year many of us ditch work and school to head out on a family vacation! An opportunity to leave the hectic pace of life behind and reconnect as [...]