MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
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MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
by Mary T. Brown
The holidays have definitely arrived at the library! The
Friends of the Library have put up a beautiful lighted Christmas
tree in the front lobby of the library. This year's decorating
theme is "Storybook Characters". See how many of your
favorite characters from storybooks you can recognize peeking
from the branches of our tree!
We will have the Friends of the Library Open House on
Friday, December 13, from 1 to 5 pm. The next day, Saturday,
Dec. 14, from 10:30 am until 11:30 am, is
the Children's Holiday Party, with stories, crafts and refreshments.
There is a
sign up sheet for the Children's Party at the circulation desk,
so we will know
how many little guests to expect.
Of course, the Silent Auction is well under way. We have
added some more
goodies: a beautiful silk flower arrangement from Battisti's
Flower Shop, a
gift certificate from the Morrisville Big M, a gift certificate
for five large
cheese pizzas from the Morrisville New York Pizzeria, a framed
Mary Engelbreit
Santa Claus print, a wool hand woven table runner, and more.
This auction ends
on Monday, December 16th at 6:00 pm, so there is not as much
time as previously
for people to place their bids (due to the late Thanksgiviving
holiday this
year). So everyone will want to keep a close eye on the items
on which they are bidding.
Traci sent us a beautiful hand made Thanks poster, which
is on display in the
front reading room of the library, on top of the fireplace.
The library staff is thrilled with the new circulation desk
PC, which was
installed today. This computer was purchased with part of a
generous bequest
from the estate of SUNY Morrisville Professor John Haight. We
remember
Professor Haight with gratitude every time we use this essential
piece of
equipment, which was so much needed.
Children who received free books during Children's Book
Week (November 18 - Nov. 24) are Rosie Thomas, Antonio Mone,
Messie Niedhardt, David Montanye, Sean Key, Clay Relyea, Timmy
St. Hilaire, Ariella Taft and Calla Taft.
Happily, we have some new books to report. Yann Martel's
Life of Pi is an amazing, imaginative story of a boy living in
India and surviving on the high seas, but it is also philosophical
about life, survival and the environment. The Murder Book by
Jonathan Kellerman is his sixteenth Alex Deleware whodunit.
In it, Alex and detective Milo Sturgis try to solve the twenty
year old murder of a Hollywood high school student. Jan Karon's
Esther's Gift is a Mitford Christmas story for all Karon's fans.
Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon is a study of depression
from many points of view--historical, clinical, cultural, political,
evolutionary, and personal.
For our 9-12 year old readers, several interesting books
have just arrived. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen is an ecological mystery,
about three middle school kids determined to keep Mother Paula's
All-American Pancake House from being built over the burrows
of endangered miniature owls. Also for this age group, Time
to Fly by Laurie Halse Anderson , the tenth in the Wild at Heart
series, tells how Zoe and Dr. Mac save some parrots that fly
loose in Zoe's town after a truck wreck. Yikes A Smart Girl's
Guide to Surviving Tricky, Sticky, Icky Situations by American
Girl provides commonsense solutions to 40 scenarios and offers
preventive measures to avoid the situation next time. Survial
in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards (Dear America)
by Katelan Janke tells of Grace Edwards, a little girl growing
up in Texas, in the midst of the Dust Bowl. Fierce, dusty winds
sweep the plains and threaten her town's farming livelihood,
creating poverty and despair among Grace's neighbors and threatening
her family farm's survival. When Christmas Comes Again: The
World War I Diary of Simone Spencer (Dear America) by Beth Seidel
Levine is the diary of a "hello girl"--one of the brave
young volunteer switchboard operators for the U.S. Army Signal
Corps during WWI.
Come in and enjoy the holiday season at the library. Bring
the children in to see the storybook character tree and do some
bidding at our holiday silent auction.
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Public Library
October 4, 2002