The Simple Way

Our first finished chapter book on our new Yoto Players!

Our sweet friend came to the library and read a chapter a day!

12 chapters total, what an amazing accomplishment!

Twins by Varian Johnson, is a story about two sisters who being to grow apart to seek their own identity and learn to work through change.

If you want to donate to our Yoto player library our older kids would really appreciate it!

We’re celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

We decided to do so in a truly delicious way: we’re growing some vegetables and herbs often used by some of the AAPI communities that are right here in Philadelphia. We are blessed with the diversity that they bring and that diversity includes some super fun veggies!

We are growing ginger, as well as some varieties of eggplant that are more common in Asian and Pacific Islander communities, namely Ping Tung and Nagasaki. We have galangal, a close cousin to ginger and turmeric. We’ve got Kaffir Lime, a lime tree that is used for its flavorful leaves (pictured here). And we can’t forget taro, an ancient but still popular root crop that grows cute elephant ear leaves as it develops.

We’re excited to honor our neighbors and to get to help our youth and surrounding community experience these delightful foods!