It’s Showtime! Stop-Motion LEGO Movies Made by Tweens

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A few weeks ago when our Summer Reading Program, “It’s Showtime At Your Library!” officially began, we held a LEGO Stop-Motion animation workshop in our Central Library in the fourth floor studio. To prepare for this program, I read up about stop motion animation using one of the library’s books: […]

Craig Newton’s Really Big Music Show

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On August 8th, 2015 we had a special guest, Craig Newton, put on a music show for families in our Donald Wright Auditorium! He brought a ton of instruments and demonstrated them all to the kids, teaching them about how musical instruments work, as well as giving them exercises in […]

Meet the kids’ grand prize winner for Central Library!

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The Central Library’s Children’s Summer Reading Challenge winner is Diego, a kindergartener who completed his whole reading game board and then was randomly selected to take home our squishable Porter the Polar Bear. Here he is with his prize: And here’s Angela Arzu, manager of Youth Services, congratulating him and presenting him […]

Summer Reading Kickoff: Read to the Rhythm!

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We had forty participants at our Kickoff program to our Summer Reading Challenge! Families came to our Studio On 4th to dance, make musical instruments and rock out! Here’s a video of some of the highlights of the program: We had a Wii set up for dancing:   We made […]

Foxy Finds a New Home!

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Congratulations, Foxy, and we hope you’ll be very happy with your new owner, Grace!  Grace was the winner of our grand prize drawing for the Central Library mascot, Foxy! Thanks to all the kids who joined our Summer Reading Challenge!  We hope you join us again next year!

Brother Yusef

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The kids had such a great time singing, shaking and learning the blues with Brother Yusef at today’s Thursday Tunes and Tales.  You can find his CD Blues for Beginners at the Central Library or the Linda Vista Branch Library. Remember to join us next week for another fun-filled hour […]

Pictures of Staff — Drawn by Kids!

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    One of the things we’ve had the most fun with this summer is seeing the pictures kids have drawn of our Children’s Desk staff! Here’s Mr. Nick:   Our fearless leader, Ms. Angela: Ms. Marie:   And Ms. AnnMarie:   And Miss Jennifer:   And Mrs. Leela:   […]