Book of the Day

Tex & Sugar: A Big City Kitty Ditty by Barbara Johansen Newman is a wonderful book about making dreams come true. Tex Mex Rex and Sugar Lee Snughead are country singing cats who leave home looking to make it big and the stage. Life in the big city isn't as easy as they think until they meet each other. This is a fun read aloud with great illustrations and has a wonderful feeling. A great book to share.

April Is...

Wow! April is a busy month. I have really fallen behind in my book and poetry posts. There are a lot of holidays still coming up. We have books for every occasion.

National Library Week - Check out The Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen or The Boy Who was Raised by Librarians by Carla Morris.

Earth Day and Arbor Day - This is a great time to read The Lorax by Dr. Seuss or Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel.

National Dance Day - Read Angelina Ballerina by Katherine Holabird or Katy Duck, Dance Star by Alyssa Satin Capucilli.

El Dia de Los Ninos/Children's Day - We have lots of great bilingual books and Dora & Diego books to celebrate the day.

Baseball Season - Our favorites are Casey Back at Bat by Dan Gutman and Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Check out the Step up to the Plate @ your library promotion and get your game book here.

Of course, we are celebrating National Poetry Month. We have great selections for all ages.

Stop by. We look forward to seeing you!

Poem of the Day

Banananananananana

I thought I'd win the spelling bee

And get right to the top,

But I started to spell “banana”,

And I didn't know when to stop.

~~William Cole

For Laughing Out Loud: Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone

Book of the Day

Moo Who? by Margie Palatini is a fabulously funny book. Hilda Mae Heifer gets conked on the head by a cowpie and forgets how to moo. Will she get her memory back? The book is clever and children will love to make the animal sounds when the book is read aloud. It is a good story for preschoolers and up.

Poem of the Day

April Rain Song

Let the rain kiss you,

Let the rain beat upon your head with liquid silver drops.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.

The rain makes running pools in the gutter.

The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night--

And I love the rain.

--Langston Hughes

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

Book of the Day

Not a Box by Antoinette Portis is a fun adventure of imagination. When asked what he is doing with the box, the rabbit says it is his not-a-box and imagines all sorts of uses for it. The pictures are simple but encourage children to use their imaginations. A great companion to Not a Stick by the same author.

Poem of the Day

A Poem is a Little Path

A poem is a little path
That leads you through the trees.
It takes you to the cliffs and shores
To anywhere you please.

Follow it and trust your way
With mind and heart as one,
And when the journey's over,
You'll find you've just begin

~Charles Ghigna

Book of the Day

One of the new favorites in the library is Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann & Elizabeth Kann. This is a fun book about Pinkalicious, a little girl who loves the color pink more than anything. She especially loves to eat pink cupcakes. When she eats too many, she turns pink. Will she stay pink forever? This is a popular picture book, perfect for little girls. If you like Pinkalicious, check out its companion Purplicious. Both are in the picture book section of the library filed under J KANN.

Poem of the Day

Keep a Poem in Your Pocket
~Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

Keep a poem in your pocket
and a picture in your head
and you'll never feel lonely
at night when you're in bed.

The little poem will sing to you
the little picture bring to you
a dozen dreams to dance to you
at night when you're in bed.

So--

Keep a picture in your pocket
and a poem in your head
and you'll never feel lonely
at night when you're in bed.

Book of the Day

I love the book Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. If you have ever dealt with a child who is a picky eater, this is a must read for you both. Little Pea hates having to eat candy at every meal but can't have dessert unless he does. The humor is tongue in cheek, the text is simple and the illustrations are charming. It's new to our shelves and has been a popular choice among parents and young readers.