January books for kids

Space goo, snowmen, and “decodable” books: Carol Roberts is talking about books and more with HMM producer Brea Barthel. January book suggestions are “Weird Kid” (Greg vanEekhout, 2021), “Oddbird” (Derek Desierto, 2021) and “Me (Moth)” (Amber McBride, 2021). Other topics are current take-and-make projects available at Troy Public Library, and decodable” books to help beginning readers and people with dyslexia improve their skills (see teachmykidtoread.org). For more, visit www.thetroylibrary.org. For info on other regional libraries, see www.uhls.org.