Posted in Explore and Discover on November 15, 2016 at 6:00 am
By David Wyatt In just a few days, movie-goers will be returning to J. K. Rowling’s wizarding world on screen when Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them hits theaters. It’s been a pretty good year for Potter and company: the new play in London Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and a little closer […]
Tags: animals, beasts, booklists, books, creatures, fantasy, Harry Potter, Hogwart's Library, kids, monsters, mythology, reading, teens, tweens, YA
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on March 22, 2016 at 6:00 am
By Kelsey Hudson With the new Harry Potter play coming out this summer (and the accompanying book that I may have pre-ordered the first day that I could), I have been in full Harry Potter fan mode for months. Thankfully, I work with a group of people who are every bit as excited as I […]
Tags: craft, DIY, Harry Potter, monster book
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You, kids, Parents and Teachers, Teens on January 13, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Cara Strickland Picture this: one moment you’re walking through a normal theme park, passing lines of people, restaurants and roller coasters. But as you walk deeper into the park, you notice that the buildings around you start to change in character. Suddenly, you’re somewhere which looks a lot like London (albeit against a Florida […]
Tags: Harry Potter, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, vacations
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You, Prime Time, Teens on August 5, 2014 at 6:00 am
By Cara Strickland I’ve spent a sizable amount of my life in the fictional pages of my favorite books. Sometimes, with all of this reading, I wonder if I’ll ever have time to meet anyone I might like to go to dinner with. I’ve managed to climb out of the pages every once in a […]
Tags: Calvin and Hobbes, dating, Dorothy L. Sayers, Emma, fiction, George Weasley, Harry Potter, Heist Society, Jane Austen, John Watson, Lord Peter Wimsey, Mr. Knightley, relationships, Sherlock Holmes