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.

Rodham

October 8, 2020

Amanda Dembiec

What if Hillary never married Bill?

Podcast

Family Folktales: Hermod and Hadvor

October 7, 2020

In this Icelandic tale, a princess must avoid a forced marriage to a giant, and outwit a witch and that giant’s ghost so she can save her beloved foster brother from living half his life as a lion!

Klem-Mari Cajigas, Family Literacy Coordinator for Bringing Books to Life

Foco en el Mes de la Herencia Hispana: Empleada de BBTL trabaja por la justicia en nuestra biblioteca

October 7, 2020

Ed Brown

Klem-Marí Cajigas es el punto de encuentro personal para las familias descubriendo a NPL

NPL Celebrates 10 Years of Changing Lives in Nashville with NAZA

October 6, 2020

Ed Brown

NAZA Team is Reimagining the Way Youth Learn and Lead in the Next Decade

Library Science Theater 3000: Halloween Hauntings

October 5, 2020

Megan Adovasio-Jones

Bad movies, good books. Halloween edition.

Children's Book Review: A New Kind of Wild

October 2, 2020

Klem-Mari Cajigas

When Ren has to move to a gray and concrete city, will he miss his home in the wild and beautiful el Yunque too much to see anything magical ever again? Published just this year, A New Kind of Wild is a delightful, imaginative picture book.

Podcast

When Did You Notice?

October 2, 2020

Learn more about the cultural lessons from Andrea and Tasneem's childhoods. When did they begin to notice social injustice? Who guided them toward careers that prioritize conversations about race and identity as more than than just talk? When have you noticed?