Wimee’s Words is currently working on our second season of fun! Join us LIVE online every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 3:00 pm CST/4:00 pm EST. When you log-in with a Facebook or YouTube account, you can share your ideas and see them become a part of the show. We can’t wait to play with […]

Wimee’s Words featuring our pal ScribbleJim was recognized through the Urban Libraries Council as a nominee in the 2021 Innovations Initiative under the category “Communicating the Libraries Value.” ULC’s Innovations Initiative showcases out-of-the box thinking and new alignment of resources to further education for people of all ages, address race and social equity in our [&

Prior to the pandemic I wasn’t excited about virtual programming. It felt like the opposite of what we do, which is to actively engage kids in creative play. But then I got a call from Kevin Kammeraad in March of 2020 asking me to be part of an alternative program he was putting together at […]

Our take on virtual interactive fun is now a TV show on PBS! Wimee’s Words is a collaboration of imaginative, silly, creative fun with you, the audience. I’ll share more on how this all came to be next month, but in the meantime you can watch full episodes online at: https://www.pbs.org/show/wimees-words/episodes/ You can also play […]

I was working with kids three and younger and they would tell me that they couldn’t draw because they weren’t good enough. “You’re not good enough? You’re two!” The idea behind our ScribbleBooks (and everything we do at The ScribbleBooks Company) is to give kids opportunities to be creative in an open-ended way where they’ll […]

After serious consideration and much deliberation, the board of directors has made the difficult decision to formally close our MySpace profile. It was pretty cutting edge when we decided to open the MySpace account in 2005, but alas, time, technology, and interest have moved on. We apologize to all of our “connections” who are still […]

The weather in Chicago that winter wasn’t remarkably cold or snowy, but I think we may have set a record for days without sunshine. It seemed to rain every day in April and we still hadn’t had much sun or warm weather. There was finally a beautiful, warm, sunny day mid-May. I dropped everything and […]

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