Here to Help: ADHD
For life’s big and small moments Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh staff have created Here to Help booklists. Here to Help booklists provide information and support in navigating life experiences. Librarians … Continued
Here to Help: Anxiety and Depression
For life’s big and small moments Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh staff have created Here to Help booklists. Here to Help booklists provide information and support in navigating life experiences. Librarians … Continued
Genre Guide – Nature Writing
From the solo meditation of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden to the call to action at the center of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, nature has long been an inspiration for writers. … Continued
CLP’s Best of 2023 – Staff Favorites
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The season when we are bestowed with the greatest gift: Best of the year book lists. We love browsing every list from … Continued
Appreciating Gray Winter Days through Picture Books
Learning to appreciate the gray winter days can be difficult, so the picture books included in this list offer many different strategies for making the most of them.
It’s Playtime!
Fred Rogers said, “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” For parents and caregivers, this is a great reminder of the value to children of time spent playing games, enjoying movement, and exercising their imaginations.
Witches: Radical Figures, Feminist Icons
Let’s talk about witches. You know them, maybe you fear them, but you love them too because they are so undeniably cool!
Oh, The Horror! A Horror Movie History Lesson
Looking to become a horror movie aficionado without falling victim to all those jump scares? More interested in the why of horror rather than the how (like how Michael Myers is still alive for all these sequels!?). If you call horror movies, horror cinema this is the list for you!
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Children’s Books
Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with these great children’s selections! For more titles that highlight Hispanic and Latine authors and stories, check out what’s available in our catalog as well as our Libby collection.
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month covers such a large swath of people, experiences, histories, languages, and perspectives that it is impossible to choose just a few writers to highlight. Here are eight exciting anthologies that pack in as many types of writing and kinds of authors as possible –– poetry, speculative fiction, realistic fiction, and history through literature and research are all represented here.