@ Your Library
Start your summer with some magic! Magic at the library with magician Brodini on Tuesday morning June 3rd at 10 am! You won’t believe your eyes with magic tricks to dazzle, wow and excite. All ages are welcome to join us as we kickoff summer with laughs, tricks and more.
Summer is here! Summer reading will start on Monday, June 2. We are excited about our programs this summer. Teens and adults can grab a takeout craft beginning today. We’ll have a new craft each month. Wednesday mornings at 11 am Libratory is back. Elementary students can join us each week for a fun, learning filled time of science, technology engineering, math and art. Thursday mornings at 10:30 am is storytime with stories, rhymes and more for anyone under 10 and their caregivers. Storytime will meet on the south lawn of the library weather permitting. Big Play resumes on Fridays from 10:30 – noon, also outside weather permitting. Ages 10 and up and their caregivers can come and explore the world through games and activities.
If your children didn’t get a summer reading booklet at school please stop in and pick one up today. The reading portion of summer reading is to complete reading challenges and earn free books. A book may be selected for every four challenges completed up to eight free books. The reading challenges are for everyone. So make it a family challenge and get everyone reading this summer.
A calendar of summer events is also available in the library. Stop by (or come to the magic show) and pick up a copy of the summer calendar so you can all plan your summer around library events.
There are so many great new books available in the junior room, let your kids stop in and pick out a couple to read. When I talked with students, I encouraged them to borrow seven picture books and read one a day, then return and borrow seven more. It doesn’t take much reading for the brain to hang onto all the skills it picked up during the school year and be ready to resume learning come fall. So put a weekly visit to the library on the summer schedule and pick up enough reading for the week.
A couple of my favorite books from this spring’s presentations include My Presentation Today is About the Anaconda by Bibi Dumon Tak and features 20 animals talking about other animals. So read as earthworm presents facts about the anaconda, or a mole shares about daddy long-legs or the barn owl present on the Tasmanian devil. One Wrong Step by Jennifer A Nielson is a novel about a 1939 climb on Mt. Everest. ARTificial Intelligence by David Biedrzycki is a delightful picture book about a robot who isn’t perfect and has a focus problem at work. Fan of the outdoors will enjoy reading Bear Grylls novels that include facts about being safe in different spaces such as caves, mountains, the sea, or in the jungle.