🦃 THANKSGIVING at the LIBRARY: Franklin Roosevelt Talks Turkey

It’s Library Tuesday in the River Houses, but first, we interrupt this post for an important message from the President of the United States (that would be Franklin Roosevelt) on how to cook a turkey: “Feathered game should never be plucked until just before it is eaten. Taking off the feathers dries up the meat.”

Although food and books (as material things) are best kept apart, cooking and libraries most certainly go together. This Thanksgiving week, when food is on everyone’s mind, why not browse some amusing notes from the culinary collections of the Library of Congress (including President Roosevelt’s stern directive):

• ➢ Serving Up Food Collections at the Library of Congress (loc.gov)

Your local library has cookbooks too — have you and your students browsed them? If yours is a Dewey-Decimal-based library (most public libraries are), the magic number is 641.5. Perhaps you’ll have a few minutes to check some out this week before the long post-turkey sleep sets in.

What delicious discoveries have you and your students made in your favorite library this Cygnus Term? 🦃

❡ Dukedoms large enough: Have you found all the local libraries in your area? There may be more than you realize, and there’s no better homeschool field trip than a field trip to a new library! The WorldCat Library Finder will help you find all the library collections near you — public and private, large and small — and the WorldCat catalog itself will help you locate the closest copy of almost any book in the world. 🏛

❡ Dewey Detectives at home: Did you know there are secret Dewey Decimal numbers hiding in the books on your very own shelves? It’s true! Here are some tips on how you can send your students on a treasure hunt to find them. 🔍️

❡ Books in the running brooks: The sidebar on the River Houses website has links to several wonderful online library collections that we like to explore. Why not sit yourself down at a large screen for a while (rather than a phone) and give them a browse. 🖥

❡ When in doubt, go to the library: This is one of our regular Homeschool Books & Libraries posts. Add your name to our weekly mailing list and get great homeschool teaching ideas delivered right to your mailbox all through the year. 📫

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