Bookworm List: Happy Spring!

A few days ago, our display table at the entrance to the department said good-bye to the books of snowmen and winter and hello to spring and Easter ( and might I say that it is now a  very colorful table.)

Here are a few recommend titles-

• Flowers and Showers: A Spring Counting Book by Rebecca Davis
• When Will it be Spring? by Catherine Walters
• When The Root Children Wake Up by Audrey Wood
• Little Bunny's Easter Surprise by Jeanne Modesitt
• Max Counts his Chickens-Rosemary Wells

For more, suggested keywords to try-
-Spring-Juvenile Fiction
-Spring-Juvenile Literature
-Easter-Juvenile Fiction
-Rabbits-Juvenile Fiction
-Flowers-Juvenile Fiction

Happy Spring! Keep Reading!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Hello, Happy St. Patrick's Day

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Upcoming Programs in April

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

Storytime for 2 and 3 Year Olds- Monday, April 2 and April 16, 10 am-  Audience: 2 and 3 year olds and caregivers.

Mother Goose on the Loose- Tuesday, April 3 and April 17, 10 am- Audience: Infants 6-23 Months and caregiver.

Storytime for 4 and 5 Year Olds-Tuesday April 10 and April 24 at 10 am or 2 pm- Audience: 4 and 5 year old and caregiver

Celebrate National Library Week-Thursday, April 12 at 3:30 pm-Audience: School age children, grades K-5

Earth Day-Tuesday,April 17 at 4 pm-Audience:School-Age, K-5

Gaming Night-Wednesday, April 18 at 6 pm-Audience: Teens ages 12-17

Lego Club-Monday, April 23 at 4 pm-Audience: Grades 2-6


Coming This Summer- Dream Big-Read! ( June-July 2012)

Hope to see you soon!

did you know...?

we now have TumbleBooks?

What that's? It's electronic picture books! Now you can watch your favorite title in animated, read-along form.
(I have, so much fun).


Check it out!Tumble time!!

Bookworm List: Happy Pig Day!! Oink! Oink!

Today is National Pig Day. Oink, Oink! This day was started in 1972 by Texas art teacher Ellen Stanley as a way of recognizing the pig as a smart, domesticated animal.

Did you know...

• Pigs are very clean and they tend to keep their bedding dry and clean.
   
• Pigs make funny sounds like grunts and squeals.
   
• Domesticated pigs eat ground up corn, soybeans, wheat, and grain sorghum.
   
• The skin on pigs is pink, but the hair can be different colors. 

For more pig facts, see
http://www.kidsarus.org/kids_go4it/growit/raiseit/swine.htm 

Want to read about pigs today? Here are some recommended titles:

• Happy Pig Day!-Mo Williems
• Olivia-Ian Falconer
• Porky and Bess- Ellen Weiss
• Little Pink Pup-Johanna Kerby

Oink, Oink. Happy Pig Day and keep reading!!

Upcoming Programs in March

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, March 5 and 19 at 10 am- Audience: 2 and 3 year olds and caregivers.

Mother Goose on the Loose-Tuesday, March 6 and 20 at 10 am-Audience: Infants Birth to
23 months and caregiver (s).

Story Time for 4 and 5 yr olds- Tuesday,March  13 and 27  at 10 am - Audience: 4 and 5 year olds.

Gaming Night- Wednesday, March 14 at 6 pm- Audience: 12 to 17 years old.

Spring Arts Celebration-Thursday, March 22 at 4 pm-Audience: K-5 and families

Lego Club-Monday, March 26 at 4 pm-Audience: Grades 2-6


See You Soon!

Bookworm List: Leap for Leap Day

Next Wednesday is Leap Day. We're celebrating a little early Thursday with a program all about animals that leap ( kangaroos, frogs, and rabbits). It's at 4pm for school age-children, grades K-5. Please sign up at our websites, Library Events .

Now why do we have an extra day in February every four years? Well, a leap year is needed every four years to keep our calender in line with the solar year ( or length needed for the earth to obit the sun , which is 365 1/4 days.) How do we determine what year is a leap year? Well, obviously the year has to be divisible by 4 ( except in years divisible by 100. But century years divisible by 400, like 2000 and 2400, there will be leap years). So this year and 2016 will be leap years.  As those born on the 29th ( known as leaplings), most will choose to celebrate on March 1st or February 28 when it is not a leap year ( or they can also wait four years, making them younger than they really are. So a person born  Feb 29th, 2008 can say they are 4 ( actual age) or 1 ( leap age).

Looking for ways to celebrate Leap Day? Well, my suggestion is animals that leap. So here are some recommended books featuring  leaping animals.

• Boing-Nick Bruel 
• I Love When You Smile-Sam McBratney
•  Beware of the Frog- William Bee
• Froggy's First Kiss-Johnathan London
• Finklehopper Frog Cheers-Irene Livingston
• The Runaway Bunny- Margret Brown
• You're Finally Here-Melanie Watt
• Norma Jean, Jumping Bean-Joanna Cole

Happy Leap Day and keep reading!!

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

Glitterfy.com - Elmo Glitter Graphics

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!!