Have you seen Kit Kittredge: An American Girl? It’s the first “American Girl” to hit theatres. I haven’t seen it but I hear it’s a good movie, even if I’ve never owned an American Girl doll. Kit is a girl living in the 1930s (who would love to be a reporter) that is suddenly thrown into the very real situation of seeing her Dad lose his business and paycheck. Dad goes to another city to find a job, Mom takes in boarders to help with the rent. Katie, who’s 11, saw the Kit movie and said that it was “really good and a mystery that’s fun, funny and touching.” Katie is hoping there wil be a movie about Addy next, or maybe Julie. Which American Girl character would you like to see made into a movie?

“ebooks for ekids”, that’s Tumblebooks. Tumblebooks lives on our Kids Web and is a fun way to read a book, whether it’s a picture book, chapter book or even a classic. You can read books in Spanish or French too. Today I played a game on Tumblebooks. It was called Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! and I was doing pretty well on the 10th level before I had to get back to work (ok, so it was a game of Concentration not Super Smash Bros. Brawl). Anyway, next time you can’t get a book at the library because it’s checked out, go to Tumblebooks and maybe you’ll find a book to read or listen to there: Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Little Women are a few of the titles you can find in the Tumble Readables section and there’s even more titles in the Audio Books section. Check it out! (without really, you know, checking anything out.)