Today is Eat Your Vegetables Day! According to the website, Holiday Insights, this day was “strategically created in the middle of National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month [and] is the perfect opportunity to re-introduce a healthy portion of vegetables into your diet.”
The classic book The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss is a perfect addition to today’s celebrations. Come and check it out from the library to read before you try some delicious grilled veggies with your dinner!
Would you like to volunteer at the library? Do you need to complete community service hours or do you just like helping out?
We’re getting ready for Summer Reading and we need all the help we can get.
Any volunteer must be entering at least grade 7 in the fall. There is no guarantee you will be called for summer reading volunteer work. But if you were, the mandatory orientation session for teen summer reading volunteers take place Thursday, May 16th (5:00-6:00), Tuesday, May 21st (5:30-6:30), and Wednesday, May 22nd (5:00-6:00). Interested summer reading volunteers MUST attend one of these sessions.
You can get started by filling out the teen volunteer application. Clicking the link will open the application in a pdf. You can turn it in to the Youth Services Reference Desk as soon as possible.
Thanks!
The force is strong with The Strange Case of Origami Yoda.
To check and see if we have a copy you can read, try looking in our catalog!
Even the sweetest Library Tiger you’ll ever meet thinks it’s pretty quiet in the library tonight…
He’s been up in his tree reading Tiger Can’t Sleep by S.J. Fore. You should stop by and read it to him sometime!
Miss Denise really likes the song “Going Places” on the NEW CD called Season Sings! It’s by one of our favorites, Miss Carole.
I couldn’t find a video, but here’s a link to listen to the song: Going Places. It’s really catchy AND it reminds us that Summer Reading is nearly here! We’re really excited to see you guys this summer.
Being able to read is so important. Take a look at this infographic created by GOOD with the support of Apollo Group.
Title: Sophie’s Lovely Locks
Author: Erica Pelton Villnave
Where you can find it at New Lenox Library: E VIL
Click HERE to place a hold!
Miss Jen says:
Sophie McPhee loves her long hair. Twirly, whirly, long and girly. But she doesn’t love the tangly mess that happens after a day of swinging upside down and playing in the rain. When sticky tape and glue won’t keep her hair up, and bubble gum ends up making things a little too sticky, Sophie decides to cut her hair. But what should she do with all of her long hair? She decides to do something very special and donate her locks to an organization that gives hair to other little girls that need it.
What a beautiful lesson to share with little girls.
The delightful watercolor illustrations add a magical quality to the story. This is the perfect book to read to a little girl that is going to be cutting her long hair and may be a bit reluctant about it. It demonstrates a spirit of giving and sharing for young girls to emulate.
As an added bonus, the author will donate a portion of proceeds from sales of the book to a hair donation program that benefits kids.
…………………..
Go Lorelai!!
One of our super sweet library kids, Lorelai, is actually going to shave her long locks off for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation & then donate her pony tail to a hair donation program. So she is giving back double by raising money to help cure childhood cancer. If you would like to donate & help her get closer to her goal of raising $1,500, please click on the link below.
https://www.stbaldricks.org/donate/participant/599784
…………………..
Want to donate your own hair or know someone that does? Check out these organizations.
Locks of Love
Locks of Love provides hairpieces to children ages eighteen years and younger in the United States and Canada suffering from any type of medical hair loss.
Pantene Beautiful Lengths
Pantene Beautiful Lengths is a campaign that encourages people to grow, cut and donate their hair to create free real-hair wigs for women who’ve lost their hair due cancer.
Wigs for Kids
Wigs for Kids provides custom-made hair replacements to children suffering from hair loss because of medical treatments, health conditions, or burn accidents.
The Science Club kids solved a mystery this past Monday! Someone stole the magnifying glasses they needed to identify fingerprints. Luckily, the Super Sleuths of the Science Club were on the case.
After interviewing the suspects, they sorted the evidence into different categories. It was only a matter of time before the culprit was caught! Was it Ms. Liz? The Bear? Ms. Brittany? Or could it have been that suspicious looking Lion?
Ask a Young Einstein’s Science Club member to find out!
Since the dawn of mankind libraries have struggled to find a way to tell the public about all the cool services they offer. Each storytime, book list, and Wiggles song that is discovered in the library walls longs to escape into the minds and hearts of our patrons.
That, my friends, is what this blog seeks to accomplish.
Welcome, New Lenox Library Patrons (and anyone else who happens upon this)!
The Youth Services Staff of the New Lenox Public Library is proud to present you with a new format to discover more about our library’s children’s department and to interact with us! Each month we will post articles about books we’ve enjoyed, music we can’t stop dancing to, and other interesting things that we think you should know about.
So check back with us and see what you could be reading, listening to, or creating by stopping by the New Lenox Public Library!
New Lenox Library: Youth Services 