Become a Youth Volunteer!

Our library can always use more youth volunteers! It's great to have extra people shelving books, setting up programs, and very importantly, helping out with our puppet shows! In these shows, the youth entice children with songs and stories. They plan out their parts, get the puppets ready, and put on great shows that everyone loves to see. The youth really enjoy putting on these plays, why not sign up and be in one too? For all the info, click on Become a Youth Volunteer! in the title.

Join now! A volunteer myself, I love helping here at the library. Here's a few shots of other teens working on puppet shows and other activities:

NaNoWriMo is coming!

We are participating in 2011.
Join us and write a novel in a month.

Leave a comment on our blog:  http://nanowrimobl2011.blogspot.com/

Books & Blocks: Pirates!!

Today was one of our Books & Blocks days! We learned about pirates and built amazing ships! Take a look at our gang of awesome builders! One of our ships was a mighty ship made just for the perfect pirate, the other is a "Sea Queen" ship built for the bravest of pirate girls. Our last picture shows an average pirate ship, sailing through the sea of books. We had such a wonderful time! Thanks to all who participated in this extravagant event!

Teen Read Week!!!

Do you know what week it is? Teen Read Week!! It's the 17th through the 23rd. In honor of this special week, why don't you grab a book and start reading! Can't find a book you like? Choose one off the sidebar! More than likely your local library will have it.

International Children's Festival

Handley Regional Library sponsored a booth!

Children took a tour of Australia with Sharron Todd. 

David playing a Didgeridoo, a wind instrument native to Australia. 

Here is the full display watched over by the Kangaroo.

Central display with flags. 

Sharron Todd, born in Australia.

Announcement! One Summer, Three Books!

It's official! The 2010 One Summer Three Books selections ave be revealed! We are excited about each of them!
They are...
Swimmy by Leo Lionni
The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
Flush by Carl Hiaasen

One Summer Three Books!

The titles of this year's One Summer, Three Books have been revealed! First, I want to talk about this year's themes. For the elementary-age children, this summer's theme is "Make a Splash: READ!" and the young adults' theme is "Make Waves @ Your Library." Obviously, this summer is based around water. There's a great line-up of activities for all ages, it's going to be a lot of fun so don't forget to check the events calendar often!

Now on to the books, there are three different titles for three different age groups:

• For primary aged children (pre-k to 2nd grade), we have Swimmy by Leo Lionni (cover)


• For elemtary children (3rd to 6th grade), there's The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell (cover)


• The young adults' (middle to highschool) book is Flush by Carl Hiaasen (cover)]

Each book looks really good, especially for their designated age group. I've read Flush and I loved it. Don't forget to look out for all the great activities the library has to offer this summer!

--Fernando Forero
Youth Volunteer