Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day


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Review-Snowball Fight-Jimmy Fallon

 

School is  closed due to a snow day, and somewhere outside, a snowball fight is waiting to happen. Young Jimmy quickly grabs his long johns and hand-me-down snowsuits and heads outside for a Snowball, Snowball, Snowball Fight!!

To borrow a little of something from "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon":
Thank you Jimmy Fallon for turning your song , "Snowball" into this cute, energetic book of winter, and thank you Adam Stower for providing the  colorful illustrations. I use this book a lot for story times and the kids love it ( and yes, it helps to have a little excitement and energy as you read the words).

For those curious about the actual song, it is available on Jimmy Fallon's  2002 album,  "Bathroom Wall" , and  the TRL (Total Request Live) 2001 Christmas album ( or Google the song for a Youtube clip).

Snowball Fight by Jimmy Fallon
Ages: All Ages
***** ( 5 stars)

Bookworm List: Elmo's birthday

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Tomorrow is Elmo's birthday ( also yours truly).  Furry red, energetic, and always speaking in the third person ( "Elmo loves you"), Elmo the perpetual three-year-old was first an  unknown  Muppet in the 70s that the puppeteers once and while  would try to give life to, but nothing worked. It wasn't 1984 that a puppeteer named Kevin Clash picked up the furry red Muppet, and Elmo was born ( for more info, see  visit the Wikipedia page on Elmo).

Other fun facts about Elmo ( courtesy of the fan page Elmo's Playground)
First Appearance: November 1984
Best Friends: Zoe and Grover
Favorite Song: Elmo's Song
Quote: "That tickles!", "Elmo loves you!"
Dislikes: Brussel Sprouts
Most popular Elmo item: Tickle Me Elmo ( introduced in 1996)
 


Want to read about Elmo this weekend? We have lots of books in our Sesame Street display on the red shelves. Here are some recommended titles:

• Elmo Says Achoo!! by Sarah Albee
• Monsters are Red, Monsters are Blue by Sarah Albee
• Elmo Saves Christmas by Christine Ferraro
• Surprise, Mommy by Liza Alexander

Keep reading!!

Bookworm List: Valentine's Day Hugs and Kisses

Valentine's Day is in two weeks, and what better way to say "I Love You" than with a book? Here are some recommended titles with a lot of hugs and kisses ( please see the library catalog for summary details and availability) :

• The Best Thing about Valentine's  by Eleanor Hudson
• The Valentine Bears by Eve Bunting
• Snowy Valentine by David Petersen NEW!!
• Froggy's First Kiss by Jonathan London
• The Giant Hug by Sandra Horning
• Big Hugs, Little Hugs by Felicia Bond NEW!!!
• Dear Bunny by  Michaela Morgan
• Plant a Kiss by Amy K. Rosenthal NEW!!
• Love and Kisses by Sarah Wilson
• All Kinds of Kisses by Nancy Tafuri NEW!! 

For more suggestions, here are  some suggested key words:

• Valentine's Day-Juvenile fiction
• Valentine's Day-Juvenile literature
• Hugging-Juvenile fiction
• Kissing-Juvenile fiction
• Parent and child-Juvenile fiction ( or Mother and child-Juvenile fiction or Father and child-Juvenile fiction)
• Love stories

Happy Valentine's Day and Keep Reading!!  

Upcoming programs in February

Here are some programs that will happening next month in the Children's Dept at the Central Library. Please visit Library Events for information and register.


Story Time for 2 and 3 yr olds- Monday, February 6 and 20at 10 am- Audience: 2 and 3 year olds and caregivers.

Mother Goose on the Loose-Tuesday, February  7 and 21at 10 am-Audience: Infants Birth to
23 months and caregiver (s).

Story Time for 4 and 5 yr olds- Tuesday, February 14 and 28  at 10 am - Audience: 4 and 5 year olds.

Gaming Night- Wednesday,February 15 at 6 pm- Audience: 12 to 17 years old.

Black History Month Movie-Saturday, February 4 at 2: 30 pm Audience: All ages

Leap into Leap Year!- Thursday, February 23 at 4 pm- Audience: K-5 and families

Lego Club- Monday, February 27 at 4pm- 2nd to 6th grade.

See You Soon!!

Review- House of Dolls-Francesca Lia Block

 

In a little house with lace curtains in every window and a lawn of real moss, three dolls, Wildflower, Rockstar, and Miss Selene live a warm and cozy life of fancy dresses and play-dough cakes. But their owner, a lonely rich girl named Madison Blackberry, is jealous. So one day, she takes the dresses away and send Wildflower's and Rockstar's boyfriends off to "war" ( which is a dark shoebox). What will the three dolls do? Will life ever be good again?


Filled with beautiful black and white illustrations, young girls will love this short and  magical modern-day fairy tale of dolls and friendship.

House of Dolls-Francesca Lia Block
Age Range: 8-12
Lexile: 1080
***** ( 5 stars)

Review- A Zeal of Zebras by Woop Studios

 

Hi all. Hope everyone is enjoying 2012 and our new catalog.

Anyway, we all know a group of ants is called an army and a group of crows is called a murder? But have you ever heard of an implausibility of gnus or a journey of giraffes? Well, these and 24 more animal group names can be found in A Zeal of Zebras, a A-Z book from the graphic artists of the Harry Potter films.

From an aurora of polar bears to a zeal of zebras ( yes,readers,all these group names are real),  each name is used to illustrate a letter of the alphabet and features a fact about the animal and amazing artwork. ( My fave- the galaxy of starfish, which looks like stars in the night time sky.) Actually, these prints and more (such as a raffle of turkeys and an embrace of roses) are available for purchase  as posters and greeting cards on the company's website .

A Zeal of Zebras by Woop Studios
Ages: 4-8
**** ( 4 stars)

Signing off for 2011! Happy New Year and Keep Reading!!!

Hi all,

So this is my final post of the year (I'm off a couple of days and won't be back till Tuesday of 2012). It's been real fun blogging, and hope to continue into the new year.

So from all of  Lake County Public Library (and your lovely blogger, Kid's Central) ......


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Keep Reading!!!

Upcoming programs in January and Holiday Hours

Here are some programs that will happening next month in the Children's Dept at the Central Library. Please visit Library Events for information and register.


Story Time for 2 and 3 yr olds- Monday, January 16 at 10 am- Audience: 2 and 3 year olds and caregivers.

Mother Goose on the Loose-Tuesday, January 3 and 17 at 10 am-Audience: Infants Birth to
23 months and caregiver (s).

Story Time for 4 and 5 yr olds- Tuesday, January 10 and 24 at 10 am - Audience: 4 and 5 year olds.

Gaming Night- Wednesday, January 11 at 6 pm- Audience: 12 to 17 years old.

Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr- Monday, January 16 at 4pm- Audience: K-5

Going to Australia- Thursday, January 26 at 4 pm- Audience: K-5 and families

Lego Club- Monday, January 30 at 4pm- 2nd to 6th grade.

Reminder about Holiday Hours of this week (and next week):

• Tuesday, December 27 to Thursday, December 29- Open from 9-9
• Friday, December  30- Open 9-6
• Saturday, December 31- Open 9-5
• Sunday, January 1- CLOSED
• Monday, January 2-CLOSED ( We will resume normal business hours Tuesday)
• Thursday, January 5- CLOSED due to construction on water system ( all other branches open until 6 pm, closing early due to launch of new catalogue)
• Coming in January 2012- 
• Read-a-thon ( More details to come)
• Polaris ( Launching Friday, January 6)

Happy New Year!!! See you in 2012!!!

From all of us at LCPL

From all of us at Lake County Public Library.....


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