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Announcing the 2025 Spanish CLEL Bell Award Winners
COLORADO – October 17, 2025: Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy announced five winning picture books that exemplify the early literacy ...

Books for Babies
Books for Babies By Michelle Ballard, Springfield-Greene County Library District I get asked: Why should I read to my baby? ...
Schedule for CLELCON25
Here is a look at the schedule for the Conference with Dates and Times of Presentations or Speakers: Here are ...
Events
Member Meetup – Best New Pictures Books of 2025 – 11/13 1-2 PM MST
Join us for our last Member Meetup of 2025 where we will discuss our favorite picture books for the …
November 13 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm MSTCLEL Training Event – Nov 14th 2-3 PM MST – Nature in Storytime
Join us as Pippi Graham leads a free seminar called Forest Play the Pippi Way, where we will discuss…
November 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm MST
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