Library Kids - April 9, 2012
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Monday, April 9, 2012 Library Kids is Madison Public Library's email newsletter featuring events, news, and recommended books for kids PreK-grade 6. April 9, 2012 Issue In this issue:
Upcoming EventsRegular weekly storytimes for children ages 0 - 5 can be found here. Chess Club information can be found here. Knitting Club dates and times can be found here. Bilingual Spanish/English Preschool Storytime Gaming @ the Library Little Learners (at Madison Senior Center) ArtVenture Girl Cr-Afternoons Family Fun Night: Morris, the Magic Man! Donuts with Dad Saturday Stories and Sweets English for Families/Ingles para familias Family Story and Play Time Cr-Afternoons R.E.A.D. to a Dog Little Learners (at Madison Senior Center) Cr-Afternoons 4K Goes to the Library 4K Goes to the Library Family Fun Night: The Soda Pups Earth Day Bike Safety Checks R.E.A.D. to a Dog Babies & Bagels English for Families/Ingles para familias Musician Fred Turk Birds and Nature of Warner Park Earth Day - Ride Your Bike Today Red, White & Read Reader's Theater Cr-Afternoons
Kids Celebrate National Library Week with Culver's Frozen Custard
Children can enter the drawing event by picking up drawing sheets from any Madison Public Library location and returning them to any Madison Public Library during the month of April. Children are encouraged to draw book characters that they would like to meet at the library. Every child who completes a drawing and returns it to a Madison Public Library by April 30 will receive a "Be Our Guest" coupon for a free single scoop of frozen custard from Culver's and be entered into a random drawing to win an additional prize of a free Team Scoopie Kids meal coupon. Drawings will be displayed at Madison Public Library through the month of April.
Celebrate Earth Month at Pinney
Happy National Library Week!Please join us in celebrating National Library Week from April 9-14. Dane County’s public libraries are thriving, with circulation, collections and patronage of the county’s 27 libraries and bookmobile at an all-time high. How can you embrace and celebrate National Library Week 2012? Check out some ideas. New Books |
 The Easter Bunny's Assistant Easter? I'm so excited! The Easter Bunny and his special assistant demonstrate how to make Easter eggs. Reviewed on MADreads. |
 Letters to Leo Annie Rossi never, ever thought her father would let her have a dog. But now that he's finally given in, she's found the perfect ear for the stories of her day. She just writes them in a notebook hidden under the bed and reads them to Leo in her soft night voice, like the one her mother used when reading to Annie at bedtime before she died. And Annie sure has a million stories to tell! There's mean Edward, who brags about his "noble goldfish" and gets her in trouble for accidentally lobbing a volleyball into his nose. There's her best friend, Jean-Marie, who ups and moves to New Jersey (and wants to borrow Leo for company!). There's the poem Annie writes about her mom, which Miss Meadows asks her to read for the class. And there's her professor dad, who is finally coming out of his shell, even though he is an elderly forty-year-old with a serious personality. Genuine and funny, Amy Hest's first-person narration revisits a winning young character as she takes on a new year - and a new dog - with humor, honesty, and resiliency. |
 Lions of Little Rock Two girls separated by race form an unbreakable bond during the tumultuous integration of Little Rock schools in 1958 Twelve-year-old Marlee doesn't have many friends until she meets Liz, the new girl at school. Liz is bold and brave, and always knows the right thing to say, especially to Sally, the resident mean girl. Liz even helps Marlee overcome her greatest fear - speaking, which Marlee never does outside her family. But then Liz is gone, replaced by the rumor that she was a Negro girl passing as white. But Marlee decides that doesn't matter. Liz is her best friend. And to stay friends, Marlee and Liz are willing to take on integration and the dangers their friendship could bring to both their families. |
 No Go Sleep! A baby--finally--falls asleep with the rest of the world in this soothing picture book from Kate and Jules Feiffer. And the sun said, "I've gone for the day. When you wake up, I'll be back to play." Even though the stars are out and the moon is bright, the baby says, "No, go, sleep!" But as the world around the baby gradually goes to sleep--first the sun, then the moon, then the sheep, tree, and owl--the baby finally, finally, finally falls asleep too. Lyrically written, this lulling text, paired with soothing art, will put even the youngest reader in the mood to visit dreamland. |
 One Dog and his Boy From the renowned Ibbotson comes her final novel, a tale of a boy and dog who are meant to be together, laced with humor and brimming over with heart, stunning in its beauty of the love of all things dog. When lonely, ten-year-old Hal learns that his wealthy but neglectful parents only rented Fleck, the dog he always wanted, he and new friend Pippa take Fleck and four other dogs from the rental agency on a trek from London to Scotland, where Hal's grandparents live. |
 Z Is for Moose Moose, terribly eager to play his part in the alphabet book his friend Zebra is putting together, then awfully disappointed when his letter passes, behaves rather badly until Zebra finds a spot for him. |
In celebration of National Library Week, April 8-14, Madison Public Library will join the Wisconsin Library Association Foundation and the Culver's restaurant in Madison in the "You belong @ your library" drawing campaign for children 11 and under.
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