Last week of April

I've been busy ordering lots of children's books for the newly remodeled Wilmot branch once it opens. They will have a great new collection of Picture books, Readers and Fiction.
Right now I have 50 carts of 100 titles each of J Fiction to look through and 20 carts of Teen Fiction to look at . It's fun to be shopping for all of these new books.

Beverly Cleary- She is 94 years old! She wishes the new movie, 'Beezus and Ramona' could have been called, 'Ramona Quimby' or Ramona Q' because it's about a little girl, but the movie producers want it to appeal to the teen audience as well so some changes were made in the story.
Beezus is older in the movie than she is in the film and is even kissing a guy.
We'll see how the box office returns go.

Susan Lowell - I was able to see her at the Main library this week reading 'Three Little Javelinas.'
It was cool to hear her read her own story. I had forgotten how great the art work is so it was neat to see the book pages projected on a big screen in the Children's meeting room.
An elementary school class was there too and enjoyed the presentation I think. They were very well behaved, but did join in on the huffing and puffing part of the story.

See you soon,
Ann

New Children's DVDs

Just ordered more copies of the movie, 'Open Season'. I had originally ordered 28 copies in 2007 and now we are down to one copy left in the system. So three years to lose 27 copies, whew.
Also ordered 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' for the library. Roald Dahl rules!
More later,
Ann

Teen CDs

Teen CDs !

I checked the recent Billboard charts yesterday and ordered some top albums from those lists including;

Oracular Spectacular by MGMT

Laundry Service by Shakira (we already owned but there was a long wait)

The Sickness 10th Anniversary Edition by Disturbed

Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend

American Teen (we owned but a long wait)

and a few more popular teen CDS;

Who I am by Nick Jonas

Word of Mouf by Ludacris

The Red Light District by Ludacris

Under Great White Northern Lights by The White Stripes

Reserve your copy now!

Ann

Rabbits

Rabbits are coming!

Jeremy Jackrabbit and his friends, Lizard Lorraine, Roadrunner Raul, and Ramona the mouse are coming your way...

I went to the City Council offices yesterday afternoon and Rodney Glassman's office staff gave me several boxes of the book, 'Jeremy Jackrabbit Harvests the Rain' by Rodney and Sasha Glassman.

This is a sweet little story and the art work is done by local student artists who are all listed in the back of the book. There is also a special thanks to Nancy Ledeboer and Sara Dias in the book's dedication.

There should be enough copies for all branches, so enjoy!

Blind Side

Hi Teen librarians and Sandra Bullock fans,
I just sent in an order for 35 more copies of the movie 'Blind Side' with Sandra Bullock. Now the waits won't be as long!