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Gaiman’s book wins Newbery Award

One of the new books that was donated through our Pember Angel campaign in December was Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. It was announced yesterday that the book won the Newbery Award for excellence in children’s literature. The story is a takeoff of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, with an orphaned boy being adopted by the inhabitants of a graveyard instead of a panther and a bear. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet but all signs point …

Story Time

Story time will be about opposites. Children of all ages and their parents or caregivers are welcome to join us.

What are you reading?

I just finished reading Stranger Room, a locked room mystery with two murders occurring 150 years apart. This is Frederick Ramsay’s fourth Ike Schwartz mystery taking place in Picketsville VA. I read a review of this a few months ago and put in a request for it. It was worth the wait. The stranger room is a part of the main house with a separate entrance, kept for use by unknown travelers. Personal relationships, moral issues, racism and possible drug …

Book Club

The book club decided to read any title by Robert Louis Stevenson. We have several on hand at the library or you may request one by inter library loan. Contact us at the library if you need help with this. The choices available at the Pember include: My Shadow, a children’s book, an illustrated version of Stevenson’s popular poem in which a child tells about her relationship with her shadow Treasure Island The Master of Ballantrae : a Winter’s Tale …

It’s “Snow Fun”

Linda’s monthly craft-activity-story program will feature Snow.

Story Time

Story time has been changed to Thursday evenings at 5:30. This week we will feature stories about Grampa’s Farm. Jo-Ann will read a couple of books and she and the children will use the flannel board to tell their own stories.

Pember Angels

Our Pember Angel campaign for December was very successful. The following items are being added to our collection: Enigma: a Magical Mystery, by Graeme Base, JP The Chronicles of Spiderwick: a Grand Tour of the Enchanted World, by Tony Di Terlizzi, JF Over the Hedge, starring Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner, 2006 DVD Gone with the Wind DVD Psycho DVD Grapes of Wrath DVD The Right Stuff DVD Adirondack Birding: 60 Great Places to Find …

Books make the best presents

Thinking of buying a book for that child or teen on your holiday list? Books make great gifts. Choosing the right one is difficult. The following is from School Library Journal. “After carefully culling through our Best Books 2008 list , we came up with 21 irresistible titles chosen for their sure-fire kid-pleasing appeal. Click here for the list–and feel free to copy, forward, post, link or otherwise pass it along.” “Irresistible to audiences from toddlers to teens, these titles …

Story Time

We will be reading books about Hanukkah.

Two new books

I read two new books this past week and enjoyed them both. Alex Kava’s Exposed deals with FBI agents Maggie O’Dell and Assistant Director Cunninham trying to solve seemingly unrelated deaths. In trying to solve the problem they are drawn into a trap that results in tragedy. It’s frightening on one level as it deals with a deadly poison thought to be introduced by terrorists, and on another level when the person causing it is unmasked. It’s a stay up all …

Book Club

The book, which will be available at the library after December 15, is For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’ Advice to Women, by Barbara Ehrenreich.