The Book Sale is Coming! The Book Sale is Coming!

Join us Saturday, June 30 9am-2pm for our BOOK SALE EXTRAVAGANZA!

There'll be:

• Books
• Audios
• Videos
• Library Bags
• Library Note Cards
• Baked Goods
• Amazing Librarian Treasures
• AND EVEN
• Live Ukulele MUSIC!

You can't beat our prices either. Hardcovers are .50 and paperbacks are .25. Audios and videos are $1.00.
Come and buy books, audios and videos and help support the library's operating budget. Come and buy anything else and help support our Renovation Fund!

If you would like to volunteer to help set up or take down this sale, please call the library at 523-9650 or show up the morning of -- we usually start setting up at 8:00am. All volunteers can help themselves to free books for the effort!

Childrens Literacy Foundation Grant

The library has recieved a grant of children's books from CLiF, The Childrens' Literacy Foundation. Today, Duncan McDougal presented the books to the fourth grade students at the elementary school. Duncan is a wonderful storyteller and had a captivated audience as he told about studying penguins in Antartica and Tarantulas in French New Guinea. Just when the students could believe no more he revealed that he had not travelled to these exotic locations by plane, boat, train or car but by book!
Duncan shared some of the new books with the students and finished the presentation by reading Tale of a Tail by Judit Z. Bodnar -- a must read about a fox who thinks he can get out of sharing his dinner with a bear.
Come down to the library and check out the 106 new picture books, chapter books, graphic novels and audio books that the has helped us add to our collection -- and just in time for the Summer Reading Program too (more about that, later.)
List of new CLiF books!

Gardens and Anniversaries

The Fire Hydrant Garden has been planted, it is beautiful! One of my favorite plants is making an appearance, it is a show stopper called Love Lies Bleeding. The library has a lot of great gardening books so you can get ideas by just walking by or coming in!

A few of the books in our collection are:

• P. Allen Smith's Color in the Garden


• The Garden at Levens by Chris Crowder


• Down and Dirty: 43 Fun & Funky First-Time Projects & Activities to Get You Gardening by Ellen Zachos
  

Tomorrow is my eighth anniversary. My husband and I both grew up in NH and we were also married here! I grew up on Lake Winnepasauki and so HAD to be married during Motorcycle Weekend,
I'm not sure what all the guests thought, but I had the time of my life. Here is a map of my New Hampshire, including a few of my favorite spots!

The Library Loans Magazines?

That's right, think of all the money and space in the recycling bin you could save yourself by borrowing magazines from us!
We carry magazines for kids and adults, newshounds and gardeners, quilters and woodworkers, scientists and cooks, skateboarders and librarians!
The library currently offers over 50 magazine subscriptions.
Just think, you could have a magazine at home for a week for free and then be troubled by it no more! If you're like me, checking magazines out from the library is the perfect solution to those impulse buys waiting in line at the grocery store!

Welcome to the Library's blog!

Well, here I am jumping on the bandwagon. I thought it might be fun for me and all of you to get some insight into what we are doing around here. I hope to blog about new additions to the collection, upcoming events and programs, and some of our daily behind the scenes tasks.

So here's what is going on in June:

June 6 and 20 Preschool story hour -- 10am
June 13 and 27 Preschool playgroup -- 10am
June 13 CLiF book presentation -- 1pm Canaan Elementary School
June 18 Trustees meeting -- 7pm
June 30 GIANT BOOK SALE EXTRAVAGANZA --9-2pm
(can you tell which one I want you to notice!)

The library's book group, The Basement Bookies is taking the month of June off. But join them Wednesday, August 22 for discussion of Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth.

The Summer Reading Program begins Saturday, June 30th. Bring your kids down to sign up for our "Reading Road Trip". The library will be offering Crafty Saturdays for the month of July. All crafts will tie in with the Road Trip theme -- Honk Honk!