Library Column for June 6, 2025

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The library hope your summer is starting off with great weather and plenty of time to read. Summer reading is in full swing with programs every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings as well as a variety of other programs sprinkled throughout the week. Libratory for elementary students is each Wednesday at 11 am, storytime is Thursday mornings at 10:30 and Big Play is Friday mornings from 10:30 – noon.

Next week we also have Silent Book Club on Monday evening from 6:30 – 8:00 pm. Bring whatever you are reading (or find a book here to read), share a bit about what you are reading and enjoy a treat and beverage and then get time to just read. Tuesday morning June 10th is Crafters’ Café. Bring whatever your are currently working on and enjoy dedicated time to craft while enjoying a beverage. All ages are welcome, but children under 8 need an adult accompanying them.

Kids reading picture books or having them read to them will enjoy borrowing these new titles. Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan about a young girl who has a special Monday routine, Bear at the Fair by Sophie Gholz about a bear terrorizing a fair with other animals, Memoirs of A Dog by Devin Scillian or Lefty by Mo Willems.

We have a couple of new “I Spy” or ‘search and find’ books in John Deere Farm and Find by Jack Redwing and The Great Outdoors by Chelsey Luciow. These can be great ways to develop observation skills and also just have some quality time one on one with a child.

The Science Museum of Minnesota will be coming up with a dinosaur program in August, but we have new dinosaur books now. Check out Quetzalcoatlus, Spinosaurus  or one of the other new dinosaur titles.

Readers who are looking for great new chapter books or novels will want to consider Answers to Dog by Minnesota author Pete Hautman which is available as a Wonderbook, which means the book will read to you. The Frindle Files by Andrew Clements, which takes place 20 years after the first book Frindle. Or Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes which is about the Oklahoma land rush.

Graphic novels continue to be crowd pleasers which is fine with us. Graphic novels require two skills to read which keeps the brain active and engaged. Try Dino Poet by Tom Angleberger, The Great Molasses Flood, 1919 by Lauren Tarshis an I Survive graphic version of the older novel. The Haunted Mask by Maddi Gonzalez is a retelling of a classic R.L. Stine Goosebumps novel while Hilda and Twig Hide from the Rain by Luke Pearson is a wonderful fairytale feeling graphic story.

Summer can also be a time for kids to explore what they like and consider how that might translate into jobs later in life. We have a couple of books in the “That’s A Job?” series with the newest being I Like Making Things: what jobs are there? by Robin Pridy.

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