MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS December 6, 2002
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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). 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 recently installed. 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, Missie
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 Delaware
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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December 11, 2002