Puppy Love: Books for Kids

If you're a dog lover, you know puppy love is the sweetest. Those big eyes! Those silly puppy paws! Who can resist a puppy? I know I can't, even if that puppy is a robot. The kids and staff at Thomas Hughes Children's Library at Harold Washington Library Center are lucky, because we just got…
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Remembering the Future: Chicago’s Century of Progress World’s Fair

This One Book, One Chicago season we've been imagining the future, but we are not the first Chicagoans to do so. Eighty-five years ago, Chicago hosted its second major World's Fair, the Century of Progress. Opened in 1933, and held again in 1934, the fair commemorated a hundred years since the 1833 incorporation of Chicago…
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Read Like a Leprechaun

Answer ye my riddles three, and my greatest treasure I'll share with thee: I wear buckled shoes but I'm not an elf. I love the color green but I'm not the Lorax. I'm always on the other side of the rainbow, but I'm not from Oz. Who am I? Did you guess a leprechaun? Well…
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Comics with Tough Female Superheroes

Anyone who's ever said fighting like a girl is an insult hasn't read enough comics. With Captain Marvel, aka Carol Danvers, joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe on March 8, there's no better time to read up on some other awesome, superpowered women.  Kamala Khan—Ms. Marvel When Kamala Khan discovers she has superpowers, she takes on…
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