Stowe Free Library

On Thursday evening, July 23, at 6 pm, the library will hold a Teddy Bear Sleepover Story Time. Children are encouraged to bring a stuffed animal that will spend the night at the library. Special guest Owney the Mail-Pouch Pooch will be sleeping over as well! In real life, Owney was a stray dog who, in 1888, wandered into the U.S. Post Office in Albany, New York where he was found the next day sound asleep on a pile of mail bags. Owney became a permanent member of the Albany Post Office, where he became a guard dog criss-crossing the country on railroad trains that carried the mail.

Summer Teen Movie Nights will begin on Tuesday, July 7, at 5 pm with the showing of a movie about a high school senior who gets rejected by all the colleges he has applied to. In order to avoid the disappointment of his parents, he creates a phony college, puts it on the web, and "gets in". Only trouble is, other kids see the phony college on the web and they apply as well. This hilarious movie from 2006 has high viewer ratings and stars Justin Long, Jonah Hill, and Adam Herschman and is produced by the studio that created American Pie. Rated PG-13.

Rather than reinventing the wheel on book recommendations for kids and teens this summer, the Stowe Free Library Children's Librarian recommends the following website:

 

http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/forparents/tp/summer_reading.htm

 

In a small library on a November afternoon in 1921, a stiff-lipped lady was busy with her scissors, shearing off the bottom third of Jessie Wilcox Smith's poster for Children's Book Week. Imagine a poster showing books scattered in joyous abandon on the floor! It was too much to bear. Thankfully, our attitude toward children and their enjoyment of books has undergone considerable change since that day. The joy of bringing books and children together can in large part be due to the creation and influence of Children's Book Week. In 1913, Franklin K.

April 22nd is Earth Day and May 2nd is Vermont Green Up Day. The library has many environmentally-conscious books for all ages including the following new and not-so-new materials for kids:

The following titles have recently been added to the library Picture Book collection. Staff favorites are Hungry Harry by Steven Salerno about a baby with an insatiable appetite, Birds by Kevin Henkes, an award-winning author/ illustrator whose new book captivates us with bold bright illustrations of birds, and the newest adventure of that sensitive squirrel, Scaredy Squirrel at Night.

A primer on manga.