who taught you how to decorate i don't i don't think we really know how to direct me i mean if you like watches t v some i take so these are supposed to go on a tree right oh exact rid ourselves i just may or may not have a light stuck in my hair and it may we have our globe exactly and the way to tell you i lit up lighted up actually today this is a worldwide information source ok so we're going to cover the whole world now last time we were together we talked like six or seven countries for you know how they get their library books and today you know i get a lot of questions about you know set this up here for now and i know you do to from the parents that say what do you think about my child listening to the book as opposed to reading it right because we have it on cd we have it play away so you know is there any difference is  maybe you can download them exactly are there any thinking that it's worse that they that they need to sit there and have to read the book yet they had lee read or they're not getting anything well we had this wonderful we found this is actually through one of the women at work and it's called and i put this whole flyer up it's called how audio promotes literacy and what they're talking about is listening to the c d s and that you know the play ways but it's also talking from the very beginning from breeding to the child so it starts at the beginning with you know the book babies that we do and the mother goes into other tales and always reading to the child so if it starts that way why would it be any different if they are continuing to listen to the stories as well right now they're saying to they you know there is a quote in here from a report of a commission on reading that the single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children so that's number one how we start to learn how to read because people will say well how do you have to be to be in the programs and i'm like pretty much zero right like one day old we have the thing for that you have a really little babies that come to the program to exactly exactly so it starts immediately and actually there's talk about before they're even born increases just the audio increases the reading accuracy by fifty two percent that's amazing right because we already know how important reading is  talking more of the audio let's see it helps increase reading speeds which is interesting now i think what that has to do with too is they talk a little bit in there about if like some of the kids  if this c d s match up exactly to the it's on to the book yeah and they follow along so they're listening to it and then they're following along in the book i mean that that is like ultimate right you and they're saying that that is an amazing thing and proves fluency children who are better listeners are also better learners not a surprise is the right to listen in school and they have to you really have to you know it is different because i always listen to books in my car yes to you know you know you and i am sure we're always reading something we've got a book here book there book there and something going in our car yeah yeah and you know what there is a big difference listening to it  i find listening to it maybe because i'm driving too but i have to concentrate more you know to to follow it started thinking about other things yes yeah your mind starts very wondering so like i have no idea what has happened ok better go back a track exactly so are there still hope for me that i could become a better learner i think you learn everything you learn more and more every day and i think that's true absolutely go ahead continue ok eighty percent eighty five percent of what we learn we learn by listening right which makes sense especially with us yes yeah we're even when they're really little we do the picture books with the book on cd yeah yeah and i remember even when i was a kid i was before we had these things called cassette tapes we didn't have the know how those anymore really and i remember i used to love getting those yeah go on tapes and listening to the book  and and reading along with it and probably did help me learn how to read write exactly i loved it too i think it's you know it's a great way to learn and you know what else i like i mean even if you're not following it in the book for me listening to it it's a nice change of pace yeah it's like we're being read to and the actors the people that they hold to do the readings they're all right you know many times it's the author you know that all's yeah many reading level so that's nice two grade levels but you know we we see that the parents that come in and the child and third grade and they're reading at a fifth or sixth grade level and you're like and then it gets a little tricky when we're picking the books for that so you know you start yeah for content the age difference increases motivation by sixty seven per cent and the interesting stat is that twenty percent of case through twelfth population are auditory letter learners so you know if you are then right you know you want to be hearing at some kids really need you know you really need to listen and hear whether it's directions or you know they're more that than sitting down and reading it on that you don't know how to print rights that are those harry potter books because half them are really real right you know made up and i never knew how to say that and you know you listen to it and then when you listen to it then when you see it you know what that word is and how it's supposed to sound exactly so you can imagine a if you're reading along and listening and you go oh but even if you weren't reading along and just listening then you would and then later on recognize that word even just by seeing what it looks next time i saw it out better  like even when the kids are learning how to to read i think that they would see a word and just from hearing so many words in their language because they would have more words in their language of they listen to my words because people you know in conversation use certain by the books are so much fun and sarah shepard who actually is a local she goes well lebanon is just i don't know where she gets his ideas like the book series is completely insane and so we're really trying to celebrate in the sequence of the series it was like an extra story that's tonight and it takes place during christmas break and what happened to these girls during christmas break they kind of have a law will in all the craziness that's going on longer because usually through a liar's books are about two hundred to three hundred pages this one's over four hundred pages like she really had a good story to throw in there and now i don't know if it's going to connect anything to the quality of the so that's going on t v series the book series and the t make sure you check that out pretty little liars on december sixth at one society afternoon excellent fun it will be a lot of fun and if you do not get enough cheap enough treats at pretty little liars we are eleventh from six thirty to seven fifteen and you will make usually it's at least three treats and you know unlike the holiday ornament night you know that that's a good week or so before it this you can make and if the kids actually get to completing it you can eat it because a lot of times before they're completed the ingredients are eaten yeah you i'm not a parent but this is definitely a parent standpoints is that the mess is not at home yeah because you love doing fun things with their kids and food but then you look at your kitchen an hour later and it is a disaster yeah so before you know sometimes i have to go through creative spurts to know and you know i'm with all the books and references and online everything and we can find lots of ideas but that did come and have actually missed lynn be the creative one she's so creative question whether it's the ornaments or the treats so not only do you not have a messy kitchen show come up with something that you're like wow this is really and yeah and maybe you can do it and so there are simple enough that you could do it at having once again these are so popular yeah i keep getting requests for them so i try to do one every so often we mario kart tournament such a blast i have my own we'll some ray to go i have actually had we have wheels in the library that  we have mario kart ready is the cool it's got yeah moves and then mushrooms on the back so that's you know she he's my to absolutely that's exactly where i was going these are both great historical fiction based on children kids at this age group that would be reading this and their lives story in the cold war with russia in the united states  happens to the kids in both books where the parents are arrested for their beliefs and because the parents are rested it's the children that suffer right and they are typically thrown in orphanages and you know become orphaned and two stories up out that you know this one breaking stalin's nose he actually did by accidentally throwing i think a snowball and it i hope i don't actually had a friend in it you know themselves he's in an orphanage in one of the things that he does is play soccer and he if he plays soccer really well i guess it was becoming more and more competitive on your rations got better your circumstances got better until somebody comes in as a as an inspector in asks to adopt him and then the life that he has with with that so great very quick reads very easy reads great great great like you're pretty far into that one oh yeah yeah actually and that's mark to where i was going back to reread some stuff and i have i'm thinking about having my girls book group three days both of them because it is it's great about the you know great facts about the cold war right and then i just brought this because he is coming out ya'll can is coming out with another book but what i didn't realize until i did some more research is that he actually now in this one he in both of these  this is adorable and the reason i brought this when i was looking into it is because the next one i believe it's called a cat and dog story may not may or may not have that here but it's i think it's called a cat and a cat and dog tale told and heiko cute so that's coming out of the cover is very similar and i have the cat and it has the dog which you would love and yet it's all in haiku and it's so easy to but i personally love this book and because i think that other people of a tune is called the good the bad god you know when i saw that i was like that my eyes may or may not have rolled back in my head teens but i mean i'm not either of those and i know i'm going to enjoy it because yeah dog story but it's about a girl who's a love in and she just moved to the upper east side of manhattan and says she has to go to a new school it's an all girls school so she's a bit nervous about that yeah and over the summer i think she's volunteering at this shelter and comes across as a very thought and this big name yes i even like the name and he is yes he's a puppy and she just automatically feels bonded to this dog and so she keeps asking her parents if she can get the dog and they keep saying maybe but to turns out that maybe is just a nicer way of saying we'll see which is where they say next as a parent i can vouch for and then which is a nicer way of saying what they finally do say which is no and so the idea of  being sold to somebody else just is breaking her heart she doesn't think anybody could love this beagle as much as she does you're breaking my heart so you know decided to do to with this dog but before she can really worry about the style she has to worry about surviving her first day of school and on the randolph school for girls dog yeah so the good the bad in the beagle i think this is going to be a wonderful story so excited about it every chapter has a name and some the chapter names are like super cute like there was one about nothing to wear and tong that sound and lose it all go whew looking from here it looks like a nice quick read too yeah so very very good and for a nice holiday break read night on the beagle i love it i absolutely love it and over the summer the final installment in the morning instrument series came out i did talk about that on here the city of heavenly fire that series is another one of our big crazes such a fun series very different kind of as like a twilight meets million other different things because there is vampires in it and there is romance but there's a lot more to it than that it's about a girl who basically discovers that she is what's called a shadow hunter as she like to fight terror job in life is to fight demons and she's never known this was her job and so it's kind of interesting the whole like underworld of people prohibition all of different you know the indie somehow ends up being involved in all of these things in history and so kind of gives a little background information about him and then also how he comes to be involved in with this group of teens that are the stories are about but it's really cool because it's a story like it's a regular fiction bright but beginning of each chapter there is a like famous quote by some like this one and zero from some shadow hunter books and yeah the famous quote but a quote quote from the bottom quote from the he's with some graphic novel illustrations in there and i so that's kind of like a neat match up yeah and then a little bit of  and magnus is a very beloved character i know from the sands that are liking the series so i'm sure this book we just got this one and two is going to go out a lot i haven't gotten through this one yet but i did read all six of them little instruments books and they are a lot of fun oh my gosh i know you i know you looked at it too in my it's called in my heart a book of feelings and i love you know how that the cover always draws you in and stuff and i look at her picture books yeah and this is a board book too but if you go through it every little heart is a different color and it goes through and it's part of the story and it goes through all the different feeling set you can have and i even picked out my favorite you favorite feeling my favorite feat yet and you know what this actually could be in our department ok as we really do out and i'm going to read it and then i'll show the picture it says this just gives you an example of how the book goes it goes sometimes my heart feels like a big yellow star shiny and bright i smile from ear to ear and turrell around so fast i feel as if i could take off into the sky this is when my heart is happy  know and so we through different drawings and different colors to explain she's like her and her heart's too on the side and helps them be able to deal with their feelings and show them yeah yeah what a cute so where's our tree oh right tis the season here's our friend yeah and we have to get in the thing now because we want to before we put the song which everybody having hotly holiday happy holidays amen or absolutely have on holidays please come visit us in the library and you can see what we're going to be wearing and hopefully we're not going to be attached by light on that figure out on tangle our eye on exactly so we're going to we're going to sign off with a little we'll see you next time and a little holiday cheer you ready happy holidays ready