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It's a Fact: It's National Poetry Month

It’s a Fact: It’s Poetry Month!

Have you entered a poem in the library’s poetry contest yet?   To participate, write your own poem and submit a copy to the youth department at our Tremont branch during the month of April. Every person who submits a poem will be entered into a drawing to win a signed copy of one of Kwame Alexander’s books. One entry per person. Poems will not be returned. Winners will be notified on May 1.

Need some inspiration?  Check out these new poetry collections.

The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: the poetry of Mr. Rogers by Fred Rogers

Trees by Verlie Hutchens

It's a Fact: The Holidays Are Almost Here!

Christmas and Hanukkah are just around the corner.  What a perfect time to read together as a family.  Check out a list of new holiday books on the Select Reads website.  You can find the link at the bottom of our webpage or just click here: New Children's Holiday Books.

One of my favorites is Santa Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins.  Who will help this grumpy bear stay awake for Christmas?  Read a new story based on an old classic.  Emily Jenkins’ All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah brings the joys family celebrations to life.  But if you’re a Grinch, try Bah! Humbug! by Michael Rosen.  It’s a contemporary retelling of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

It's a Fact: School Starts Soon!

The first day of school is just around the corner.  What better way to get ready than to read some wonderful poetry.  Celebrate the people who make each school a special place by reading poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins in School People.   Kay Winters’ book Did You Hear what I Heard? Poems about School highlights the wonders of everyday school activities.  And share the excitement of the first day of school presented in six different voice in A New School Year by Sally Derby.

It's a Fact: Engineer Some Fun this Summer

Summer is a great time to explore the world around you. Create fun projects from everyday objects using the information in How to Be an Engineer.   Of course, not every project works the first time.   Don’t believe me?  Check out The Book of Massively Epic Engineering Disasters by Sean Connolly.  And if you would rather take things apart, Tamara J. Resler’s book How Things Work: Inside Out uses diagrams, trivia, and other fun features to explain the inner workings of today’s most interesting engineering innovations.

It's a Fact: Pets Are "Pawsome"!

Celebrate National Pet Month by learning a few things about some seriously “pawsome” pets.  Everything Pets by James Spears presents a collection of fun facts and amazing photos.  Is history more your thing?  In Presidential Pets: the Weird, Wacky, Little, Big, Scary, Strange Animals that Have Lived in the White House by Julia Moberg, you’ll learn which president kept an alligator in the bathtub and whose dog bit the French ambassador.  Finally, experience the joy of adopting a pet with 125 Pet Rescues: from Pound to Palace from the writers at National Geographic Kids.

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