Early Learning Center Mailbox

Wonderful scribbles!

Give your toddler a chance to scribble away on paper in the Early Learning Center. These early scribbles are an important step on the way to learning to write.

Visit the Early Learning Center:
Monday through Thursday: 9am to 8pm
Friday & Saturday: 9am to 6pm
Sunday: 12pm to 5pm

ACPL Bookmark Contest

Don't forget to enter the ACPL Bookmark Contest. The theme this year is Worlds Connect @ your library. Entries are due Friday, February 27, 2009. Visit any branch of the ACPL to pick up an entry form or click here.

Seven Years Old!

Hannah just turned 7-years-old and was able to make her first trip up the stairs of the Children's Services Reading Tower. Children ages 7 through 12 are invited to climb the stairs and find a comfy reading bubble to curl up into for some quiet reading time. Those of us who are younger than 7 or older than 12 must watch and wait from the ground floor. Congratulations, Hannah, and Happy Birthday!

Dental Health Month

Celebrate Dental Health Month by attending the Children's Dental Health Fair at the Main Library on Saturday, February 21st from 1 to 3pm. The fair will be presented in the Globe Room by Isaac Knapp Dental Hygienists' Association and will feature games, prizes, dental health and nutritional information and brushing and flossing instruction.

You can also celebrate by checking out a book about dentists or dental health. Check out The Dentist From the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler.

And the Winners Are...

Congratulations to the 2008-2009 Cybils (Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards) winners!

Early Reader: I Love My New Toy! by Mo Willems
Fantasy & Science Fiction/Middle Grade: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Fiction Picture Book: How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham
Fiction Middle Grade: The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Non-Fiction Picture Book: Nic Bishop Frogs by Nic Bishop
Non-Fiction Middle Grade & YA: The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir by Cylin Busby & John Busby
Poetry: Honeybee by Naomi Shihab Nye
Graphic Novel/Elementary & Middle School: Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale & Dean Hale
Fiction Young Adult: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Fantasy & Science Fiction/Young Adult: Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Graphic Novel/Young Adult: Emiko Superstar by Mariko Tamaki

Presidents Day!

How many United States Presidents can you name?
Four-year-old Matthew knows them all in order!



To learn some interesting facts about our country's presidents, visit the PBS Kids website, or stop by the library to check out a book!

Reading Rainbow Young Writers & Illustrators Contestng

It is time for the Reading Rainbow Young Writers & Illustrators Contest! This contest is for students in K to 3rd grades. To enter, simply write and illustrate a story, pick up an entry form at the library (or print one out from your computer), and return your entry to the Main Library by March 13, 2009. For the complete rules, visit the PBS website.