by Beth Cronk, Litchfield head librarian
Santa visited the library on Thursday, December 4, at 6:30
in the evening. He was very
popular! Mrs. Pease stopped counting
people at 207 and she thinks she must have missed a few who came in the
door. That may be our record for the
largest number of people to come to an event at the library.
The whole children’s department was full of excited young
faces. Mrs. Pease led them in chanting
“Santa! Santa!” before the man himself emerged from the back room of the
library, ringing his jingle bells.
Santa sang his own version of “Rudolph, the Red-nosed
Reindeer”. He read the book Is It Christmas Yet? by Jane Chapman. Then
the crowd divided up to make Christmas crafts and eat cookies in the meeting
room or to take turns telling Santa what they want for Christmas. Even with the huge crowd, everyone was very
patient and polite in waiting their turn.
We have such nice families here.
We did see new faces in the crowd, as well as library
regulars. We even set up a number of new
library cards that night. If you were
visiting the library for the first time but had your hands full with little
ones, stop back another day to apply for library cards and take another look
around.
We're down to
our last few storyhours of the month. On Wednesday, December 10, we'll have our baby and toddler storytime at 10:15. On
Friday, December 12, we’ll have our preschool storyhour at 10:00. And on Saturday, December 13, we’ll have our
2nd Saturday storyhour at 10:00, as well. Mrs. Pease is planning on holiday themes for
those. Then we’ll take a break from
storyhours until January, since the holiday season is such a busy time.
We will be holding our monthly family movie night on Monday,
December 22, at 6 p.m. in the children’s department. We’ll be showing a kids’ Christmas movie
about an army of elves. It’s rated G and
it’s just a little more than an hour and a half long. Call the library if you’d like to know the
name of the movie.
The monthly Friends of the Library book sale will be held on
Saturday, December 20, from 10 to 4, with potential gifts for all ages. Most of what we have for sale is donated by
members of the community, and there really are some nice books and movies
available.
The library will be closed on December 24 and 25 for
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We will
be open our regular hours the rest of that week. We will close at 5 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and
be closed on New Year’s Day.
Thank you to all of you who came to our Santa event and made
it such a success. We wish you all a
very Merry Christmas!
