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MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
by Mary Brown
Play it cool this summer by enjoying the great events
and offerings of the library.
The annual Friends of the Morrisville Library Book Sale is fast
approaching ! Saturday, July 27th is the big day to come to
the library to bargain hunt through stacks and stacks of books
that will be up for sale at unbelievably low prices . This annual
fund raiser is your chance to stock up on books, to help your
local library, and to socialize with lots of people who also
love books. John Schuster is rounding up volunteers to set up
and to help at the sale. If you can help on the 26th or 27th,
please sign up with Traci or John.
On Tuesday, July 23rd, the next session of the summer Pre-school
Story Hour series with Grandma B will begin at 10:30 a.m.. The
series will continue on July 30th and August 6th. Grandma B.
will make the little ones forget the heat with her delightful
program.
On Thursday, July 25th , the next session in the library's
Summer Reading Program, "Splish, Splash, Read", for
children 5 - 12, will be held from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.; this
series will continue August 1st and August 8th.
Thanks this week to Ethel Crane for adopting John Irwin's
Another River, Another Town: A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of
Age in Combat, a retired philosophy professor's memoir of his
experience as an 18-year-old GI tank gunner on the German front
in 1945. This book conveys the romance of combat as well as the
fear and slaughter with a wry honesty. Other new books include
Lisa Scottoline's Courting Trouble, in which Anne Murphy, a woman
with a secret past, joins an all-women Philadelphia law firm
only to avoid death by chance and be forced to reveal her secrets
to her new colleagues. Elizabeth Berg's True to Form continues
the story of Katie Nash, now 13, as she learns a great deal about
life during a summer vacation. This book can remind us all what
it was like to be a young teenager looking at the world and it
inhabitants. In Jan Karon's In This Mountain, Father Tim Kavanagh
and his wife, Cynthia, return from Whitecap Island in the seventh
novel in the bestselling Mitford series. In this one, Father
Tim deals with the issues of depression, failing health, and
self-doubt but finds support from his beloved villagers.
Some new books have also arrived for our younger readers.
I Don't Want to Go Back to School by Marisabina Russo is a picture
book for children 4-8 that dramatizes a child's panic about going
back to school after summer vacation. Also for this age group
is Robert Crowther's Colors. In this book, young readers are
invited to think about color. Each two-page spread is a solid
expanse of red, yellow, pink, etc. But look closely, and discover
tabs and flaps that, when opened, reveal a variety of similarly
colored critters and objects. Dieter Wiesmuller's The Adventures
of Marco and Polo will also entertain the 4-8 year old children
with its tale of Marco Monkey who grew up in a land of steamy
tropical rainforests and Polo Penguin who had never left the
frosty cold ice pack of Antarctica. But the two adventurers share
a curiosity about the world around them that leads them on a
globe-spanning expedition that explores both the wonders of the
Earth around them and the nature of friendship itself. Francoise
Crozat's I Am a Big Dinosaur is a board book for pre-schoolers
about a young dinosaur who describes his family and activities
and takes a look at other kinds of dinosaurs that share his environment.
The children might also enjoy the library's new video of Snow
Dogs with its heartwarming story about personal growth of Dr.
Ted Brooks and a sled team of Siberian huskies. Snow Dogs is
99 minutes of fabulous Alaskan scenes, amusing comedy, and entertainment
suited for the entire family ( a great cooler on a hot day!)
Be cool this week. Stop in the library and sign out a great
book to read. And don't forget to put our big book sale on your
"to do" list for Saturday, July 27th.
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