Winter Book Clubs

The following book clubs are funded by a grant from Target. Registration is required. Please register online here or call the library at 439-1240.

Book Buddies
Kindergarten – 1st grade

Wednesday, February 1: 4:45 – 5:30 P.M.
Theme: Mysteries
We’ll read a Nate the Great mystery together and then solve a mystery of our own.

Wednesday, February 29: 4:45 – 5:30 P.M.
Theme: Around the World
We’ll read The Umbrella by Jan Brett (a book set in the cloud forest in Costa Rica) and create a craft project related to the story.


Bookworms
2nd – 3rd grade

Tuesday, January 31: 4:45 – 5:45 P.M.
Read any A to Z Mystery by Ron Roy before the program. (Books are located in the Juvenile Fiction area of our library under the author’s last name – Roy. See a list here.) We’ll discuss the books and solve our own mystery.

Tuesday, February 21: 4:45 – 5:45 P.M.
Read Dragon of the Red Dawn by Mary Pope Osborne. Copies of the book will be available at the January program and at the circulation desk after that time. We’ll discuss the book and participate in activities related to the story.


Chapter Chats
4th – 5th grade

Monday, January 30: 4:45 – 5:45 P.M.
Read any mystery and bring the book with you to the program. We’ll discuss the books and other mysteries, and then solve our own mystery.

Tuesday, February 28: 4:45 – 5:45 P.M.
Read Extra Credit by Andrew Clements. Copies of the book will be available at the January program and at the circulation desk after that time. We’ll discuss the book and participate in activities related to the story.

Great Websites for Kids

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has updated its directory of Great Websites for Kids. Find educational and entertaining websites for children on their website here.

Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature this morning.

See more about the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature here.

See his books in our library here.

Family Reading and Science Program

Our annual Family Reading and Science Program will be held on Saturdays, January 21, February 11, and March 10. This year’s theme is Vital Signs: How Health Works. This program is for children in kindergarten through fifth grade, accompanied by an adult. It is provided in partnership with the University of Michigan’s Muesum of Natural History.

You are invited to attend all three workshops, but if you can only attend one or two, you are welcome to attend just the one(s) that fit your schedule.

Registration is required. Please register online here or call the library at 439-1240.

Workshop 1: How YOU work: What are you made of and what do your vital signs mean?
Saturday, January 21: 10:3o – 11:30 A.M.
We will explore what makes you who you are. We’ll look at the building blocks that make our bodies (cells and DNA), figure out what the numbers doctors talk about really tell us, and see how it all works together.

Workshop 2: Germs, parasites, and allergies: Oh, my! What makes us sick and what makes us well?
Saturday, February 11: 10:3o – 11:30 A.M.
We will look at some of the things that make us sick, and find out what our bodies do to protect themselves.

Workshop 3: Build the $6 million you: Making the most of your health
Saturday, March 10: 10:3o – 11:30 A.M.
We will learn what we can do to improve and maintain our health. We’ll examine how our environment, healthy eating, and exercise influence our health and well-being.

December Programs

Santa is coming!

Stories with Santa
Thursday, December 15 at 6:45 P.M.
Milan Senior and Community Activities Center

Santa will read a Christmas story and then children will have time to visit with Santa, have their pictures taken with him, and create a Christmas craft.

Registration is required. Please register here or call the library at 439-1240.

Winter & Christmas Crafts

1st and 2nd graders
Wednesday, December 21
4:45 P.M.
Hear a story and then create winter and Christmas crafts. Registration is required. Please register here or call the library at 439-1240.

3rd – 5th graders
Monday, December 19
4:45 P.M.
We’ll make winter and Christmas crafts. Registration is required. Please register here or call the library at 439-1240.

75 of the Best Books for Young Children

Our library received an $800 grant from The Greater Milan Area Community Foundation to purchase additional books from the Public Library Association's list of 75 of the Best Books for Young Children (created by the West Bloomfield Township Public Library as part of its Grow Up Reading early literacy initiative).

The books purchased through this grant have begun to arrive in our library. Additional books will be added over the next two months.

Books from this list are currently located on the shelf with the new picture books and are identified with a "75" sticker on the spine.

Books purchased with funds from the grant may be seen in our catalog here. A complete list of the books from this list in our library may be seen here.

Thank you to The Greater Milan Area Community Foundation for their support.

New books from Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein

New books by Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein have been published and are now in our library. Click on the images to see if they are available or to reserve them.



See more new books here. Scroll down below the adult and teen new book showcases to see the new children's books.