Children's Programs

Wardsboro
Public
Library
170 MAIN STREET WARDSBORO, VERMONT

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Children's Programs and New Books

FREE CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS

Young bugs on their way to the fields as part of a library craft project. "Don't bug me - I'm reading!"

CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS

Children's Librarian,
Amy Dix

End of Summer Party was a great success. Many children participated in contests, face painting, bug eating and the eight-legged spider race.

Winners of the bug contest: Trevor Finaldi, Chaston Finaldi, Kayla Hart, Erin Bates, Ashley Bates, Matthew Fitzpatrick, as well as Sara Russell and Corrin Broussard (joint project)

Winners of the reading contest:
--Elizabeth Halvey
--Coby Mager

CHILDREN'S STORY HOUR & EVENTS--The next craft hour will be in Sept.

Topic: Underwater

The first craft session will be about SHARKS!

Dates and times to be announced

Children's Book Awards

John Newbery Medal

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

Randolph Caldecott Medal

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Red Clover Award

Flotsam by David Wiesner

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Award

Rules by Cynthia Lord

Green Mountain Book Award

Looking For Alaska by J. Green

National Book Award For Young People

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

NEW
CHILDREN'S BOOK SELECTIONS FOR SEPTEMBER

I Wanna Be a Heavy Equipment Operator (DVD)

Library Lion by M. Knudsen

Dark Day in the Deep Sea by M.P. Osborne

Totally Bizarre by R. Miles

Baby Animal Kisses by B. Saltzberg

Geisel Medal 2008
Honors the author and illustrator of the most distinguished contribution to American beginning reader books for children.
There is a Bird on Your Head! written and illustrated by
Mo Willems

Young library patrons posing beside book covers which are examples from Anne McKinstry Micou's newest book, A Guide to Fiction Set in Vermont for Children & Young Adults

More family-friendly events are sponsored by
the Friends of the Wardsboro Library.
See their Calendar of Events.