Library Notes 5/3/2007

Library Notes

Storytime

May brings Mother’s Day and Mother’s Day is perhaps the quintessential storytime/craft opportunity. Kids: bring your mothers to the Library and we’ll read them Is your Mama a Llama, My Monster Mama Loves Me So, and What Moms Can’t Do. Then we’ll be sure to make them something appropriately sentimental in nature and send them home with our crafts. Join us Wednesday at 10:15 for 2 and 3 year olds and Thursday at 10 for 4 and 5 year olds.

Book Sale

The Altamont Library’s spring book sale is coming soon. If you have any books you’d like to donate (no encyclopedias or condensed books, please), kindly bring them to the train station Friday, May 11^th between 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m, or call the Library to make other arrangements to bring the books to the station. We’re expanding our sale this year to include household items – if you’re not having a garage sale of your own, this is a great way to combine spring cleaning and helping the Library.

The Big Read

Join the Big Read by picking up your copy of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Copies of the book are available at the Library and are yours to keep. We’ll discuss the book Tuesday, May 15^th at 3:30 p.m.

Computer Classes for Adults:

The next series of computer classes for adults will begin Tuesday, May 8^th at 10:30 a.m. This five part series assumes no prior knowledge. Classes are limited to three people and registration is required. Call 861-7239 for more information.

Kids’ Book Club

An adventure-quest with a hip edge: At first glance, Perseus Jackson seems like a loser (readers meet him at a boarding school for troubled youth), but he's really the son of Poseidon and a mortal woman. As he discovers his heritage, he also loses that mother and falls into mortal danger. The gods (still very active in the 21st-century world) are about to go to war over a lost thunderbolt, so Percy and sidekicks Grover (a young satyr) and Annabeth (daughter of Athena) set out to retrieve it. Join us for a discussion of the Lightening Thief, by Rick Riordan, Wednesday, May 30^th at 4:15. Request your copy today.

Read to a Dog.

Come on in and read to Jane, the Portuguese water dog who loves to listen to stories. Jane is at the Library Wednesday afternoons from 3-4. Reading to Jane is a great way for kids to gain confidence in their reading abilities while having fun. Call 861-7239 to sign up for a 15-minute time slot or just drop in.

Library Joke:

This week’s book in search of a title: Scottish Kilt Patterns. Email your best answer to winesj@uhls.lib.ny.us by Monday at noon. Last week’s contest: Exercise on Wheels. Congratulations to Edward Ruxton for his entry: Dr. Spin. The official answer: Cy Kling.