Paws to Read

Do you want to practice your reading? Come to the library and read a story to a book-loving dog.

Trained therapy dogs will be here every week with their handlers and they want to listen to you read!

Thursdays from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Enter to Win Youtheatre Tickets

Visit Children's Services before 9 p.m. on Wednesday, February 6th and enter for your chance to win a pair of tickets to see the Fort Wayne Youtheatre production of Ramona Quimby. The winner will receive tickets to the performance for Saturday, February 16th or Sunday, February 17th at 2:00 p.m at the Arts United Center.

Celebrate Mardi Gras at the Library!

Don't let winter get you down! Spring is just around the corner!

Join us at our family-friendly Mardi Gras celebration where we'll learn about the worldwide history of this holiday, make masks and shoe-box floats, sample a traditional King Cake and listen to some jazz. If you want, you can recycle your old Halloween gear and come in costume for the parade!

Celebrate Mardi Gras in Children's Services at the Main Library on Saturday, January 26. We will have a family Mardi Gras Open House from 2:00 to 4:00 and conclude with a parade of children at 3:30.

Join us!

What do you think the Library will be like in ten years?

In ten years...

• Will kids still be coming to the Library to find craft books or books about how to draw dinosaurs?
  
• Will parents still be bringing their babies, toddlers, and preschoolers to storytime?
• Will school groups still eagerly look forward to tours?
• Will computers still be used as eagerly by school-aged kids and their grownups?

What do you think the library will be like in the year 2018? Click on this link and tell us what you think. Go here to see what others have already written.

100th Day Celebration!

Friday is the 100th day of school!

Teachers, as you prepare for your celebration, you will want to check out our 100th Day Celebration booklist.

Happy 100th day!

Pop-Up Books!

We have just posted a new Pop-Up Books booklist on our website -- if you love pop-up books (and I know you do!) you've got to check it out. All of the books on this list can be checked out for three weeks with your ACPL Library Card!

One of my favorite pop-up books is How to Find Flower Fairies, by Cicely Mary Barker. Readers can search through the amazingly detailed pop-up illustrations to hunt for fairies; fascinating and realistic "facts" about fairies are scattered throughout the book.

And, for more pop-up reading pleasure...at the Main Library, in Children's Services, we have several copies of pop-up books that stay in the library, so they're available to look at while you visit. Ask us about it, we'll be glad to show you!

Gallop! by Rufus Butler Seder

You have to see scanimation in action to believe it! Just open the book and watch the animals gallop, leap and flutter across the pages.