Children's Book Week

This week is Children's Book Week.  Even though our library is closed, you can find lots of great ebooks and audiobooks to read or listen to.  See all of your options here.

We will add new information here each day - book recommendations, book challenges, and more!


Children's Book Week Challenge:  Guess the Book round 2

Thank you, Franklin, for the clues.

Do you recognize the books in this video?  Do you have clues to share for us to guess the book?  You can leave a comment on this page or on this post on our Facebook page.

Book Recommendation from Violet 

Thank you, Violet, for this book recommendation.  The Giver is available to check out through Overdrive or the Libby app as an ebook, audiobook, - and, I just discovered today, a graphic novel.

Children's Book Week Challenge:  Guess the Book 

Thank you, Franklin, for the introduction and for getting us started with your excellent clues!

Do you recognize the books in this video?  Do you have clues to share for us to guess the book?  You can leave a comment on this page or on this post on our Facebook page.

Book Recommendation from Benjamin:

Thank you, Benjamin, for the weather report and book recommendation!

You can find ebooks about weather on:

- Capstone Interactive eBooks here.  Log in with username: continue and password: reading. Then search for weather.

- Tumblebooks here. No login required. Click search, then type weather in the subject search box.

You can find articles, pictures, and more about weather on:
- PebbleGo here (through MeL, no login required)
- PebbleGo Next here with username: engaged and password: learning .

If you can't find what you're looking for there, you can try any of the resources here.


Book Recommendation from Franklin:

Thank you, Franklin, for the fantastic introduction to Children's Book Week!

You can read this book on Tumblebooks here.  Use the search feature to look for Because of Winn-Dixie.

Children's Book Week

This week is Children's Book Week.  Stop by the library to discover a new book this week.


Do you recognize the children's books that begin with these lines?

     In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf.

     The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day.

     These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.

     All children except one grow up.

Pick up a copy of additional opening lines from the library or see more from picture books here and from chapter books here.

First Lines

This week is Children's Book Week.

Join us for this week's programs:

Storytime -  Thursday afternoon, Thursday evening, and Friday morning.  See details on the Storytime tab above.

Elementary programs - Saturday morning and afternoon.  See details on the Mother's Day Tea tab above.  If you haven't read a book specifically for this event, join us anyway.  Everyone is welcome.  Please register, so we'll know how many people to expect. 

Try this quiz about picture books or see how many chapter books you can identify by their first lines here:

1.  First of all, let me get something straight.  This is a JOURNAL, not a diary.

2.  When Mrs. Frederick C. Little's second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse.

3.  It was a dark and stormy night.

4.  Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.

5.  When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.

6.  Brian Robeson stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.

7.  Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

8.  Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy.

9.  If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.

10.  All children, except one, grow up.

11.  This story begins within the walls of a castle, with the birth of a mouse.

12.  If someone had asked Jared Grace what jobs his brother and sister would have when they grew up, he would have had no trouble replying.

13.  Matthias cut a comical little figure as he wobbled his way along the cloisters, with his large sandals flip-flopping and his tail peeping from beneath the baggy folds of an oversized novice’s habit.

See the comments for the answers.

Children's Book Week

Children's Book Week is next week, May 7 - 13.


1.  Stop by the library to check out some great children's books.

2.  Contribute to our display in the library.  Print one of the story starters below, create your own ending, and turn it in to the library.  We'll post the stories for everyone to read during Children's Book Week. 

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these stories.

What I Did begun by National Ambassador Katherine Paterson
BLAM! begun by Mo Willems (2009 Children's Choice Book Award winner)
The Night Visitor begun by Dinah Williams (2009 Children's Choice Book Award winner)
And Then... begun by National Ambassador Emeritus Jon Scieszka
The Unexpected Blast begun by Elaine Landau (2008 Children’s Choice Book Award winner)
Surprise On the Mat begun by Lola Schaefer (2008 Children’s Choice Book Award winner)
Tutu Is A Funny Nickname for a Guy! begun by Eoin Colfer
The Secret I Can't Actually Tell People Yet! begun by Barbara Park
One Morning... begun by Mary Pope Osborne
One Evening... begun by Lemony Snicket