It’s Read Across America Day! Find the right reads for your little ones. Our youth librarians have the perfect books for readers of all ages. Activities Grab-and-Go Early Learning KitsAddison Branch. Read Across America Day Dr. Suess storytimeFleet Branch. Read Across America Day Dr. Suess storytime and craftsSouth Brooklyn Branch. Wednesday Word GamesGlenville Branch Recommended Reads You Are Not Alone…
Some of the best shows and movies are inspired by books. Don and Sarah return to discuss some of the titles that they’re looking forward to watching. IN THEATRE Death on the Nile (February 11) Based on Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile; one of the Hercule Poirot series – 47 books in Christie’s series started publishing in 1920. The…
What makes Time Travel stories so popular? Don and Sarah return for another Book Drops to break down the time travel genre and explore what makes these titles so popular. They also have reading recommendations just in time for Groundhog Day! Recommended Reads for Time Travel Kindred by Octavia Butler (Don/Sarah) Timeline by Michael Crichton Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 1/22/1963 by…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by CPL Youth Services (@cplyouthservices) This week’s book from The Stacks makes for a perfect January read! “The Snow Party” by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers and illustrated by Reiner Zimnik, published in 1959 by Pantheon Books. A little old man and a little old woman live alone in a farmhouse “way out…
SO many lists at the end of the year! How do you decide what’s notable, best, award-winning, Top 10, or Top 100 list? List-making is inherently fraught with caveats and disappointments! “Why wasn’t XYZ on there!” Genre books don’t necessarily make it on the “Best Books” of the year unless you’re specifically looking at “The Best Sci-Fi…” or “The Best Romance Titles of…” even…
Family/Growing up Opposite of Always by Justin A Reynolds With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo LGBTQ+ She Drives Me Crazy – Kelly Quindlen Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Saenz I think I Love You – Auriane Desombre Cemetary Boys – Aiden Thomas See Also Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Super Fake…