Our online Book of the month

Our book of the month is Tyrannosaurus Math by Michelle Markel.  It is a great book for young kids to understand basic math concepts.  Check out our website:  elcslplkidsbook.weebly.com

A cool website

Do you ever wish that you knew the order of the books in the series that you are reading?  Do you forget who wrote the series that you read awhile ago?  This is site for you then.  It allows you to search my series title, book title or author title.  We use it here at the library all the time!  It is called Juvenile Series and Sequels.
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/series/juv/

Have you tried these Fantasy YA books????

The Silverwing Series    by Kenneth Oppel

Eragon                          by Christopher Paolini

The Princess Bride         by William

The Lightning Thief        by Rick Riordan

Coraline                        by Neil Gaiman

The Amulet of Samarkand  by Jonathon Stroud

Artemis Fowl                     by Eoin Colfer

African mask making workshop

We are having an African Mask making workshop on February 7th.  Vue d'Afrique will be coming in do talk about the history of African masks as well as help the kids make their own mask.  Space is limited so don't delay!  Tickets are $5.00

Nursery Rhyme of the Day

Hickory Dickory Dock
The Mouse Ran up the Clock
The Clock struck one
The Mouse ran down
Hickory Dickory Dock.

This is one of the nursery rhymes that we will be doing today in our baby program -Hippity Hop

Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

I just finished a young adult book called Hush Hush.  I have mixed feelings about the book as a whole.  I liked the premise of the story - fallen angels and immortals but found the explanations as well as the telling of that part of the story to be lacking.  I definitely liked the characters - they were well developed and were likeable (or unlikeable).  This is Becca Fitzpatricks first time publishing so I think we can forgive her for the holes in the story.  I look forward to her future writings!

Yayo at the library

Today we had an illustrator visit the library.  Diego Herrera who goes by the name Yayo spoke to the students from Merton Elementary.  It was a very interesting presentation.  The students were full of good questions and were presented with souvenirs at the end.  Thanks for the great presentation Yayo!