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Monday, November 18 @ 4 p.m.

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Craftacular Wednesdays text with craft supplies

Craftacular Wednesdays

DIY Crafts: Wednesday, November 20 @ 4 p.m.

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Includes picture of a 3D printer and the text, "Family 3D Workshop"

Family 3D Workshop

Saturday, November 16 @ 2 p.m.

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Picture Book of the Week:Moon's First Friends

Published by Karen on Fri, 11/08/2019 - 11:52am

Moon's First friends: One Giant Leap for Friendship by Susanna Leonard Hill, Pictures by Elisa Paganelli

A heartwarming story of a friendship-seeking moon that also celebrates the extraordinary 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing!

From high up in the sky, the Moon has spent her whole life watching Earth and hoping for someone to visit. Dinosaurs roam, pyramids are built, and boats are made, but still no one comes. Will friends ever come visit her?

One day a spaceship soars from Earth...and so does her heart.

Includes bonus educational pages about the moon mission!

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Picture Book of the Week: How Do You Dance?

Published by Karen on Fri, 10/25/2019 - 11:23am

How Do You Dance? by Thyra Heder
There are so many ways to dance! You can jiggle or wiggle or stomp. You can bop or bounce or go completely nuts. You can dance at the market or the bus stop, with your fingers or your face. You can dance because you’re happy or even because you’re sad.
         But, what’s the best way to dance?
         Exactly how you want to!
         In How Do You Dance?, author-illustrator Thyra Heder explores dance in all of its creativity, humor, and—most of all—joy, in a picture-book celebration of personal expression that will inspire young and old readers alike to get up and get moving.

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Picture Book of the Week: Truman

Published by Karen on Fri, 10/11/2019 - 10:35am

Truman Truman, written by Jean Reidy, illustrated by Lucy Roth Cummins

After his best friend Sarah leaves for her first day of school, a tortoise named Truman goes on an adventure across the living room and learns to be brave in this thoughtful and heartwarming twist on a first experience story.

Truman the tortoise lives with his Sarah, high above the taxis and the trash trucks and the number eleven bus, which travels south. He never worries about the world below…until one day, when Sarah straps on a big backpack and does something Truman has never seen before. She boards the bus!

Truman waits for her to return.
He waits.
And waits.
And waits.
And when he can wait no longer, he knows what he must do.

Even if it seems…impossible!

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Picture Book of the Week: Spot and Dot

Published by Karen on Fri, 09/20/2019 - 2:46pm

Spot and Dot by Henry Cole
In Henry Cole’s vivid wordless picture book Spot, the Cat, readers joined Spot on a journey through a city that began with him following a bird outside his window.
This time a dog named Dot draws Spot from his window. As we follow Spot and Dot on their wordless journey, we quickly realize that it’s Dot the dog who is missing this time, and Spot is trying to get her back home. We follow these two on a different journey through the city as they weave in and out of a bakery, a library, a busy park, and more. And with a surprise twist at the end, we realize that “home” for both cat and dog was never very far away.
With detailed black-and-white illustrations, readers will love following Spot and Dot on their adventure and cheering for the sweet reunion at the end.

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Picture Book of the Week: Awesome Dawson

Published by Karen on Thu, 08/29/2019 - 8:28pm

Awesome Dawson by Chris Gall
EVERYTHING CAN BE USED AGAIN! That's Dawson's motto. He collects junk that people throw away and turns it into something STUPENDOUS. But when Dawson uses his skills to create a machine to do his chores for him, he discovers he might have invented something a little too... AWESOME. Can he stop the rampaging robot before it destroys the entire town?

Chris Gall inspires kids to reuse, repurpose, and recycle in this inventive adventure about a boy superhero who turns trash into treasures--and saves the world while he's at it!

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