By Jan Pease
It may be due to my age, but this summer seems to speed
along even more quickly than normal. We
have only four more Friday mornings for
children’s programming, and I’m excited about each one.
On Friday, July 27th at 10:00, we will
celebrate summer festivals and fireworks with Eric Carle’s wonderful book, the
Very Lonely Firefly. A patron mentioned
seeing fireflies this summer, so this 
On August 3, at 10:00, we are very pleased to welcome
Belinda Jensen to the library. Ms.
Jensen encourages children, especially girls, to get involved with
science. Her book series, “Bel the
Weather Girl” explains weather so children can understand. Since Minnesota weather can be scary, I
recommend her series both for kids who are interested in science and for kids
who need to know how weather works.
On August 10th at 10:00, the “One Vegetable, One Community” folks will visit the library to talk about this year’s vegetable, beets. They always present a fun, informative program. This story time is a lot more interesting than it sounds, in case you’re wondering about a story time about beets.
On August 17th at 10:00, the Minnesota
Zoomobile will visit. I’m really looking
forward to their visit. They bring
interesting, small creatures. I keep
hoping for visit from a Siberian tiger or Russian bear, but will just have to have a day at the zoo for myself.
That will wrap up our children’s programming for the summer, except for Brickheads, the Lego building time, which gets together every Thursday, and Beginner Book Club, August 16th at 3 p.m. The book to read for for book club is Roald Dahl’s book, “George’s Marvelous Medicine,” and copies are available at the front desk.
Our full Story Hour program will begin again with Toddler
Time on September 5th and Preschool Story Time on September 7th.
Thanks to the all of the parents, grandparents and
caregivers who bring their little ones to library programs. It has been a wonderful summer.
