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#SSAC2021 Day 7

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 7!

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#SSAC2021 Day 6

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 6!

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#SSAC2021 Day 5

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 5!

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#SSAC2021 Day 4

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 4!

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#SSAC2021 Day 3

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 3!

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#SSAC2021 Day 2

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 2!

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#SSAC2021 Day 1

Short Story Advent Calendars, Day 1!

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The Short Story (and other) Advent Calendars 2021!

One of our favourite things about December here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library is a tradition that began back in 2015 with the publication of the very first Short Story Advent Calendar by Edmonton publishers Hingston & Olsen – a daily December dose of bookish goodness to get us into the holiday spirit!

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Happy Wolfenoot!

We here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library also have a long, if somewhat unrelated, history of animal adoption and companionship: cats, birds, snakes, gerbils, fish, rabbits, tarantulas, guinea pigs – both hairy and hairless... and dogs. Lots of dogs.

So naturally when we discovered a holiday dedicated to a “Celebration of Canines and Kindness,” and heard the story of how this holiday came to be, we couldn’t let it pass unrecognized.

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Happy World Toilet Day!

There’s a reason why toilet humour is called toilet humour, but humour can often be a way to convey important messages. So in honour of World Toilet Day, we wanted to share a book that seeks to deliver some important health information, with humour, on a very closely related topic…

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Happy World Kindness Day!

Just a quick share of a book cover from our alphabet collection, and the letter of the alphabet that happened to stand out most today, in honour of World Kindness Day.

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Happy Sesame Street Day!

Premiering on November 10, 1969, Sesame Street has been a cornerstone of my reading life for my entire life. “C is for Cookie” is one of my earliest alphabet memories and The Monster at the End of This Book helped set me on the path that led to a Master of Arts on the design of books and now has me going back to school again for a Library degree.