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Preschool prep with a fun Amazon deal! Scoot on over to Amazon where you can score this Educational Insights Shelby’s Snack Shack Game for only $13.60 (regularly $21.99)! Made to prepare your little one for preschool, this game helps teach your little one numbers and counting by helping Shelby the plug collect her bones. They’ll also be developing strategic thinking and fine motor skills. Play with your little ones and watch them light up as they fill their dog bowl with the number of bones they spun. The person with the most bones wins! If you’re looking for a way...

It seems like just yesterday your little bean came into this world and now, here they are, celebrating yet another birthday. You’ve watched them grow, learn new things and played witness to their heartwarming milestones (remember the first time they tried real food?). As they continue to develop their fine and gross motor skills, introducing them to fun, interactive and educational toys from VTech® and LeapFrog® can help them during this process. Unsure of where to start? We’ve created an easy-to-follow guide of the best gifts, categorized by price, to help you decide which toys will make them smile—and fire...

After successive school years disrupted by shutdowns, isolation, and mass experiments in remote teaching, educators returned to school in Fall 2021 to find that our classrooms and students had changed. In the first days of the return, perhaps, we didn’t see the full scope of the changes. Yes, most of us knew that there would be yawning academic gaps. Most of us understood then what the data have since clearly borne out: despite often heroic efforts by teachers to deliver remote instruction, the pandemic had caused a massive setback in learning and academic progress. The costs had been levied most...

The Chicago River is a winding, wonderful and wacky body of water. It flows backward, piercing the heart of Chicago, linking Lake Michigan to the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. Not only does it get dyed bright green on St. Patrick’s Day, but it has its own incredible, iconic bridges that open and close to traffic, as well as its very own troupe of water taxis. Set out on an adventure and feel its magic. Here are kid-friendly ways to go explore (and tick some items off your Chicago-themed scavenger hunt while you are at it). Go on a...

Tuesday, August 2, 6:30 pmMaya Payne Smart, author of Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Sixin conversation with Dr. Dipesh Navasaria, in-person at Milwaukee Public Library Centennial Hall, 733 N Eighth St - This event is currently at capacity, but we're playing with ways to increase capacity, including an overflow room where you can watch the program on video and still get your book signed and meet the author.  When you can register again, this is where you'd do it! Award-winning (and Milwaukee-based!) journalist and literacy advocate Maya Payne Smart appears with her new book, Reading for...