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Apr 9, 2021
ALPENA Alpena County Library is presenting three virtual programs this month: Talking is Teaching on April 22, adult book club on April 26, and Capitol Women on April 27.
Talking is Teaching literacy workshop
Talking is Teaching: Reading and Singing will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 22, hosted by the Alpena County Library and the Great Start Collaborative.
Join Alpena County Library and Great Start Collaborative via Zoom for a one-hour early literacy workshop for parents and caregivers of children ages newborn to 5.
In this workshop, parents and caregivers will dig deeper into the power of reading and singing with their child or children. Registered participants will receive free workshop materials after the event.
The Globe and Mail Stacy Lee Kong Published April 9, 2021
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They may deal in different eras – Janie Chang’s books are set in China before the First World War, while Kate Quinn has written about ancient Rome, Renaissance Italy and early 1900s France and England – but both authors take inspiration from what women were doing at various points in history. It’s an impulse that feels firmly grounded in our current moment – as critic Megan O’Grady argued in The New York Times’ T Magazine, “literary authors are increasingly looking back, not to comfort us with a sense of known past, or even an easy allegory of the present, but instead – motivated by a kind of clue-gathering – to seek reasons for why we are the way we are and how we got here, and at what point the train began to derail.”
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