Blogs & Podcasts

Find early literacy tips and children's books on the Children's Blog. Discover your next great read on the Books Movies Music Blog. Dig into Nashville history with the Community History Blog. Listen to stories, history, and culture on NPL Podcasts. Please see this Note for Readers.

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Almost 130 years after Bram Stoker's Dracula, we're still finding new ways to tell this story
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Carnival Queen is a wonderful picture book about a little girl celebrating an ancestral family tradition: Carnival! She is distressed when she encounters an issue with her costume, but her community comes through and she ends up with a more beautiful dress than she expected!
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How to Tell a True Princess

You may have heard a different version of this story before, but the moral remains the same: never judge a book by its cover!
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The Dragon and his Grandmother

Three soldiers, deserters from a great battle, make a bargain with a dragon: they will have all the money they need for seven years, and then be prepared to serve the dragon – unless they can find the answer to his riddle ….