For the 17th year, children have chosen the best read aloud picture books in Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards program. The 2021 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award winner is The Bug Girl: A True Story written by the bug girl herself, Sophia Spencer and illustrated by Kerascoët. This book is about a young girl who […]
Please join faculty of Minnesota State University Moorhead and staff at Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge in the launch of our project, Wild Inspired. This event will take place on Sunday, June 13, from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. Visitors of the refuge will be instructed how to download the new “Wild Inspired” App, in Android or Apple formats for smartphones. Visitors […]
On Friday, May 14, Professors Travis Dolence (Library) and Kevin Zepper (English) taught 9th graders from the Detroit Lakes School District. Using a short poetic form, Dolence and Zepper encouraged students to hike briefly through the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. More than one hundred students wrote up to three short poems on their experiences with nature. […]
The Livingston Lord Library is looking for MSUM faculty, staff, or administrators who are interested in serving on the 2021-22 Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards Committee. Committee work includes reading and evaluating newly published children’s picture books, attending two committee meetings, and in April 2022, selecting the best read aloud picture books published in 2021 in two age categories. If […]
New Rivers Press publication We Are No Longer Babaylan by first-generation Filipina-American author Elsa Valmidiano received a fantastic review in RHINO magazine.