Creative and Crafty Saturdays

Stop in to the Children's Services department tomorrow (Saturday, June 7th) during library hours to make your own ceiling kite to take home!

Hang it up and enjoy all year long!

Comedy and Magic!

Sweetcakes Comedy Entertainment!

Join us today (Thursday, June 5th) at 2:00 p.m. in the theater for a magic show from Sandy of Sweetcakes Comedy Entertainment Company of Fort Wayne! Sandy will use audience participation, and her silly humor to entertain us all! Prepare to giggle, and to be amazed!

Magic Show!

Sweetcakes Comedy Entertainment will be presenting a magic show today at 2:00 pm and tomorrow, Thursday, June 5th at 2:00 pm. Come prepared to be amazed by magic while you laugh the afternoon away!

Fritz!

We had a very special visitor in Children's Services this afternoon. Fritz, the GermanFest dog, stopped by to sign up for the summer reading program and dance the chicken dance! Check out more photos of Fritz here.
If you would like to sign up for the summer reading program, click here or stop by any location of the ACPL. If you would like to dance the chicken dance, join us for Smart Start storytime tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m. for more GermanFest fun!

Guten tag! It's time to celebrate GermanFest!

We hope you'll join us today at 2:00 when we'll hear a story in German and English, dance the Chicken Dance, and work on an "Ich weiß, eine alte Dame, eine Fliege verschluckt" (I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly) craft.

Moms and Dads --> bring your cameras to snap a picture of Fritz, the GermanFest mascot, as he joins us for the chicken dance!

Summer Reading Program Kick Off!

Today is the first day to sign up to Catch the Reading Bug! Sign up online or stop by your local Library. Read, read, read throughout the summer to earn great gifts - a Rocking Rhymes CD (for PreReaders), marigold seeds (for Readers), a book bag and two books of your choice!

Babies can sign up too! Wondering how your baby can read? Talk to a librarian to learn about Smart Start Activities and other options for you and your baby.

Parents, this year there is a reading program just for YOU! Sign up in Children's Services or at the General Reference desk. Your gifts include a handy book light, your very own book bag and a gift certificate to Twice Sold Tales. You can count the time that you spend reading to your child/ren as your reading time - so everybody wins!

This week we have some exciting programs in Children's Services:

• Tuesday, June 3rd @ 2:00 pm Celebrate Germanfest
• Wednesday, June 4th @ 10:30 am Smart Start Storytime Guten Tag! Celebrate Germanfest
• Wednesday, June 4th @ 2:00 pm Magic Show with Sweetcakes Comedy Entertainment
• Thursday, June 5th @ 2:00 pm Magic Show with Sweetcakes Comedy Entertainment
• Thursday, June 5th @ 6:30 pm Paws to Read
• Friday, June 6th @ 10:00 am Babies & Books Storytime
• Friday, June 6th @ 10:30 am & 11:00 am Toddler Storytime
• Saturday, June 7th All Day Creative and Crafty Saturday

Don't forget to sign up for Team Read. For more information click here.

Our Caterpillars Have Arrived!

Come to the Main Library during the month of June to watch our Painted Lady caterpillars transform into beautiful, fluttering butterflies! Housed in their own special butterfly habitat, you can stop by several times during the month to see how they change. While you're here, check out some books about butterflies and caterpillars from out Butterflies Booklist to learn more about the amazing life cycle of butterflies and moths. We'll be releasing our butterflies during an extra-special Butterfly Storytime on Monday evening, June 30, at 7:00 p.m.

See you at the Library!