Wardsboro
Public

Library
170 MAIN STREET         WARDSBORO, VERMONT

Your Subtitle text
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.

Web Hosting Companies