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The library just received a gift of 100 new children’s books, ranging from pre-kindergarten through early readers. These books were a donation from the Brownstone Book Fund, a private foundation in New York City, interested in fostering early reading, a love of books and encouraging parents and children to read together. Come to the library to explore and enjoy our new collection.
Titles that we already owned are available to our Reading Ready families to select as one of their free books. If you have children not yet in Kindergarten and haven’t gotten involved in the Reading Ready program, now is a wonderful time to sign up as we are giving away hardcover books, while they last, instead of our normal paperback books. Reading Ready allows pre-Kindergarten children to pick out a book to keep every time they have been read to for 100 days. Along with Imagination Library, Reading Ready is a great way to build your child’s home library. See the library for information.
The next reading challenge is to read a book set in fall. There are lots of children’s books set in fall, probably because that is when the school year starts, so writer’s are thinking about new starts and all that. But there are plenty of adult titles about fall as well. Here are a few. Nine Liars by Maureen Jackson, Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie and 11/22/63 by Stephen King are all mysteries of a sort.
Classics include Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. More contemporary title possibilities include The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, The Overstory by Richard Powers and Still Life by Louise Penny.
Young Adult titles that are set at least partially in fall include the amazing Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson which is also available as a graphic novel. And then three very atmospheric fall titles Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson, The Diviners by Libba Bray and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.
There seem to be more novels for children that at least start in the fall. I’m pretty sure that because the school year starts in the fall it is a natural time to start a novel. So, here are three new titles from the junior room that are fun fall reads. Answers to Dog by Pete Hautman (a Minnesota author) features a boy and a stray dog who join forces against the world of bullies and life’s unfairness. On Guard by Cassidy Wasserman is a graphic novel that stars a middle school girl adjusting to divorce and needing to find new friends and activities. And finally what could be more fall that Werewolf Hamlet by Kerry Madden-Lunsford in which a fifth grader seeks to staqe “Hamlet” with werewolves. Don’t get me started on picture books about fall. I love too many of them to share.