Caroline visits the library

It's nice at holiday time to have the grandchildren of Freedom residents visit the library. Today we were happy to see Ellen Many's granddaughter Caroline. Caroline loves both books & Louie as you can see! As always, click on any picture to see a larger version.

Ladybug Picture Book Award Winner Announced!

On November 14th I paid a visit to the Freedom Elementary School to read all ten of the Ladybug Picture Book Award nominees to the Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders. It was a marathon session and thank goodness for school librarian Missy Bishop who read several of them or my voice would have given out! The kids were really great listeners... they had to be, because after they heard all ten books, they each got to vote for their favorite. Each child was given a ladybug sticker to put on the outside of the book they liked the most. I also read to the preschoolers that week and at storytime at the library. The favorite book by far was I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont, garnering 32% of the vote in Freedom. It's my favorite, too, because you don't just read this book, you SING it!

Today, The Center for the Book announced the winner of the 2006 Ladybug Picture Book Award.

It was....
drum roll, please...

I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! which earned 21% of the 17,027 votes cast in 130 libraries and schools across New Hampshire. The voting results are as follows:

3,553 I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont & David Catrow
3,252 The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens & Susan Stevens Crummel
2,282 Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies by Carolyn Crimi & John Manders
1,531 Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
1,397 Mr. Tuggle's Troubles by LeeAnn Blankenship & Karen Dugan
1,349 The Dog Who Cried Wolf by Keiko Kasza
1,105 Terrific by Jon Agee
1,067 Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel & David Catrow
943 The Dancing Tiger by Malachy Doyle, Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher
548 The Best Pet of All by David LaRochelle & Hanako Wakiyama

All of these wonderful books are available to borrow at the Freedom Public Library!

And now... a puppy!

At the risk of seeming like all we do is host pets here at the library I just HAVE to publish this cute picture of Samantha and her sweet Yellow Lab puppy, Bonnie who visited last week.