April is … National Poetry Month & School Library Month.

At my two elementary schools, we celebrated The Very Hungry Caterpillar Day — all week!   At Brookhaven Elementary School, we created two large caterpillars (one with student hand prints and one with student’s favorite foods) to decorate the hallways outside of the media center.  Ms. Johnson’s kindergarten class had the opportunity to Skype with a kindergarten class in Wisconsin, sharing The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, and Ten Little Caterpillars by Bill Martin, Jr. At Clopper Mill Elementary School, my fifth grade library assistants helped me create our Devour a Good Book bulletin board. 

“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other.   But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”   ~Helen Hayes

I truly believe that books — and the library — are the portal to the world and beyond.   The library is not simply a physical space  that holds books and computers — it is wealth of  information that it holds and potential for using this knowledge to each one’s goals.   Books, in all their many forms – print, digital, audio – are truly the wings with which we fly to greatness.