"The crows are calling my name," said Caw

Congratulations to yet another contest winner. Nathaneal put all his creativity to work in coming up with a name for our new crow puppet. The best of the names were chosen by library staff and those top names were voted on by patrons. "Caw" won by a landslide. Nathaneal chose three books from our children's books for sale as his prize and graciously posed with Caw for the blog.

We have a winner!

Congratulations to Alex, pictured here, who was the closest guesser in our most recent "Guess How Many" game. There were 396 cheerios in the jar and Alex guessed 302. Our adult winner was Dick Clough who guessed 350. Enter every day you come into the library! Maybe you'll be the lucky winner next time.

Frogs! and Cookies!

Five green and speckled frogs

sat on a speckled log

(that Judy made!)

Samantha Baker made cookies to share after story time today. Here's Atticus & his cookie.

Jassmyn has one too.

Our newest patron

Cora and Anya introduced us to our newest patron, their little sister Tava. Pretty soon she'll be singing, "Sit down, it's story time and we're going to have some fun" just like her big sisters. Welcome to the library, Tava! We are so glad you are here!




Here's another picture of Cora and Anya... they are just too cute!!

Catching Up

We kicked off the Winter Film Series on Sunday Jan 8th with "Mrs. Brown." Everyone loves Judi Dench so this movie was a hit before it even started. We all know a lot more about Queen Victoria's post-Albert days than we did before. Anyway, hope you'll all make it to The Motorcycle Diaries on Sunday, Jan 22nd. I'm hoping the Patriots are not going to compete with the movie which is showing at 4:00.

I finished my first book of 2006 yesterday, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Excellent book! We have two copies of this book and an audio version (CD) on its way. I keep a list of the books I read, do you? Last year I read 46 and plan to beat that number in 2006.

Today the 2nd graders came again. Look how engrossed they are in the books and magazines they selected in the picture above! I just love it when they come. Unfortunately no one in this class was the closest in the Guess How Many game this time. There were 67 crayons in the jar. Better luck next time, kids! If anyone has a great idea about what to put in the Guess How Many jar, please let me know.