Blog Archives - Calgary Reads

A generous gift ensures more reading magic!

Posted on September 21, 2020

Our Children’s Reading Place is a colourful, welcoming heritage house in Calgary’s Inglewood community devoted to promoting the love of reading and early literacy. Within this special place, we harness the power of environment to inspire a love [...]

Steacy’s Snippets September 2020: Everyone needs a rock

Posted on September 17, 2020September 17, 2020

Everyone needs a rock I always pick up rocks. A pebble here and there. I’ve been drawn to stones for as long as I can remember. I hold them in my hand; turn them over and over. I feel their smooth surface, trace the shape, [...]

Reader/Artist-in-Residence Profile

Posted on July 6, 2020July 6, 2020

In addition to being our new Reader-in-Residence, Karen Scarlett is an interdisciplinary artist. She works in pencil, water colour, acrylic, mixed media, bas-relief and sculpture. Karen often works with barn wood found at 100 year old homesteads [...]

Brain Camp 2020

Posted on June 30, 2020July 31, 2020

For a PDF with live links: August 2020 Calendar of Activities Looking for Hopscotch?! Keep Scrolling! For a PDF with live links: July 2020 Calendar of [...]

Steacy’s Snippets June 2020: I’ve Lost My Ability to Read

Posted on June 1, 2020

I’ve lost my ability to read. Well, not completely. But I can’t focus. And for me, reading is essential, like water. I’m an oasis-seeking wanderer in the desert, if I’m not reading. Usually, there is rarely a moment in [...]

Conversation with Calgary Author – Taylor Lambert

Posted on June 1, 2020

Can you talk a little about two of your books; 'Rising' and 'Darwin’s Moving'? Both books were somewhat accidental. I was in Toronto promoting my previous book when the flood struck, and during the train ride back west I had time to kill, [...]

Steacy’s Snippets: May 2020 “Hope Quotes”

Posted on May 5, 2020May 5, 2020

I have just spent a sleepless night lying on the ‘comfort couch’ in my home office. At some point, my beautiful sunflower vase was knocked over and broke. It felt like a sign of something calling for my attention. As I lay on [...]

Earth Day

Posted on April 22, 2020April 22, 2020

EARTH DAY BOOKLIST Staff Picks Todd Parr’s The Earth Book and Love the World. They playfully teach children about simple ways they can take care of our only place, the earth, and of one another! (Laura) Bill Bryson’s A Short [...]

Steacy’s Snippets: April is Poetry Month

Posted on April 17, 2020

I’m a poet and I bet you didn’t know it! I’ve always loved poetry. As a child, during tough times, I found comfort in poems... they were like quiet friends I could turn to for solace. Poetry’s themes and words spoke to me. I trusted [...]

Steacy’s Snippets — My #1 Message

Posted on April 3, 2020April 3, 2020

My number 1 message Those of you who know me, won’t be surprised. It’s been my number one message... forever. Because it’s true and it matters. And, at a difficult time like this, it’s a gentle reminder of caring and captivating ways [...]

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CBC Calgary Reads Big Book Sale update

Children’s Reading Place update

Calgary Reads FOOD BANK Volunteer update

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