Yo-Yo SpinMaster Program--Don't forget to sign up!

Don't forget that Yo-Yo SpinMaster Brent Dellinger will be performing in a FREE family program at 1:00 p.m. this coming Saturday at the library. Please call or stop by the library to register--we had an overflow crowd when he was last here with his music and light show about 4 years ago and the fire marshal will only let us squeeze a certain number of people into the Clymer Room!

After the free performance, Brent will take a short break and then will work with a small group in a workshop format. The workshop is limited to 20 PERSONS and costs $7.50 per person. You may either bring your own yo-yo or buy one of Brent's line of yo-yo's before the workshop. He is bringing his full range of yo-yo's, including the new "Yo Stick." ADVANCE REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT IS REQUIRED! It is really doubtful that any slots in the workshop will be available if you wait until the day of the program!

Hope to see you all there--this is a REALLY special program!

Get a Clue! - Elementary Program, Tuesday @ 1:30 p.m.

We had a great turnout last week for our first Get a Clue! summer program for Grades 1-5. And we expect an even better group for tomorrow's program--1:30 p.m. See you there!

YNK @ Your Library

Tomorrow is another teen program. This week we are making a Cartouch using Egyptian Hieroglyphics. We will have snacks and prize drawings. I hope to see a lot of you there.

Brianne

Hullo All,
I am now staying in Inverness, Scotland. We have been here two days, and have had a very relaxed time. The first day was dominated by school work (two tests and two short assignments), however overall things have been good. We will be going to Lock Ness tomorrow. We drove by it on the way here, and it is beautiful. It is really quite impressive at 23 miles long and 800 feet deep. At that size it is no wonder that they cannot find Nessie. Oh well.
Cheers!
Evan

Living on an Island

Hullo All,

Sorry that I have been so long in writing. I have spent the last weekend living on the Isle of Iona, which is a very small Isle off of the coast of the Isle of Mull, which off of the coast of Scotland. It was a very good and relaxing time. I stayed at a place called the Macleod center, a place that is affiliated with the Abbey that is on that Island. Though there is a long and diverse history since its inception, the original monastery was founded by St. Columba. He was an Irish monk that took part in what historians call the re-evangelization of Europe (a phenomenon recorded in Thomas Cahill's "How the Irish Saved Civilization" a book for any older readers interested in history). All in all it was a great time. I hiked all over the place, ate good food, had good fun, and worshipped in the abbey. I hope to write more consistently form now on.

Cheers,
Evan

Where in the World is Evan?!

We haven't heard from Evan since he last reported in from Glasgow, Scotland. Hmmm, do you suppose he's just having too much fun to blog?!

Hats, Hats, Hats...Don't Miss Tomorrow's Preschool Story Time!

Hope all you families with preschoolers (through kindergarten age) are planning to join us tomorrow as Teresa kicks off the summer preschool story time series! Teresa's theme for tomorrow is "Hats!" There will be fun stories, crafts & music, so drop in for either the 10:00 session or the 11:00 session. Registration is not required.

Here we go, the first program of the 2007 summer reading Program, Get a Clue @ your library is today at 1:30!! Pat has some fun mystery activities planned and is rarin’ to go.

Brianne has a great activity planned for the teen program tonight at 6:00. They will be making secret compartment books.

Our online registration for the reading program is going well. Registration started Wednesday June 6, and is ongoing. As of this morning, 298 have signed up! Our goal this year is 700. This is the first year for us to have online sign ups and reading records. Please feel free to leave comments letting us know what you like or don’t like about the online system.

Saturday’s KPTS Share-a Story program was well attended and a good time was had by all. Each family that attended took home a free copy of the book, “Hey, Little Ant”, by Phillip Hoose. The next one is scheduled for July14.

We will soon have pictures of the “Where in the World is Evan” map for all to see.
Follow his progress here on this blog as he travels in Scotland and England.

Keep reading!

"Where in the World is...? for Grades 1-5 on Tuesday!

Just a quick reminder that our first summer program for Grades 1-5 will be tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 p.m. Your leader is Pat Powell and she has packed a lot of fun activities into the Tuesday programs, so grab a couple of friends and come on down!

Mrs. K

Hello Teens

Just a heads up to the teens. Our first weekly program is tomorrow at 6 p.m. We will be making Secret Compartment Books with paper bag covers. We will have snacks too. It should be lots of fun. I hope to see a lot of you there.

Brianne

Home Again, Home Again....

Hoo-boy, what a week! My daughter and I just got back from this year's Kansas Archeology Training Program at Nicodemus, Kansas, the Exoduster settlement in western Kansas. We had a fantastic time! I'll tell you more later...

Mrs. K

So far So good!

Hullo all,

I am already in Scotland (after a long day of travel). I did get one surprise. My group flew through New York City rather than through D.C.. That does not, however, give you an excuse to not check out the Smithsonian.

I arrived in Glasgow this morning, and after I got my bag I went to my hotel called the Tulip Inn. We are just a few blocks from downtown Glasgow, where I spent most of my day. I went with some of my friends, and we just wandered all over the place looking at all of the old buildings and exciting new things to see. After wandering for a little over an hour, we stopped in at a nice little pub and had a nice filling (but cheap) lunch.

After that, we meandered; until we found our way back to the hotel. Later in the evening we went with the whole group for supper at this nice little Italian Restaurant. The food was delicious, but we were tired from travelling across 6 time zones. So, we went back to the hotel to rest.

Tommorow, we will be leaving at seven in the morning on our day long pilgrimage to the very small Isle of Iona. I hope that I have a chance to tell you about Iona very soon. Well......

Cheers!

Hullo All,

By this time tomorrow, I will be arriving at my first stop on my way to Scotland. I will be stopping in Washington D.C. Washington D.C. is the home of the president, the capitol building, and the Smithsonian Institute. The Smithsonian is a big museum with lots of cool things. To find out more about the Smithsonian check out the book as the library called "A Picture Tour of the Smithsonian." This books has lots of great pictures and fun facts. Stay tuned for more updates, and check the map at the library to see "Where in the World is Evan?".

Ti Ti for Then and Ta Ta for Now

Evan

Don't Forget to Sign up for Share-A-Story!

Don't forget to sign up soon for the first of our Share-A-Story Programs this summer! Pat Clough of KPTS will be at Bradford for another one of her terrific programs for preschoolers-1st graders on Saturday, June 9, at 11:00 a.m. in the Clymer Room on the lower level of the library. Remember though that we're limited to only 20 FAMILIES and each child will receive a free book to take home.

Register today by stopping in at the Children's Circulation desk or by calling the library. If you haven't been to one of our Share-A-Story programs, you won't want to miss this special one based on the "Get a Clue" theme!

Karen

Hullo All,

Some of you may remember me as the summer reading program intern from last year. I am very sorry to inform you that I am the summer reading program intern again. I do feel sorry for you all who have to put up with me, again. However, there will be some relief for you. I will be gone form June 7- July 5 on a study trip to England and Scotland. Now, I am also sorry that I cannot take any of you along, but I will try to keep you all posted concerning my whereabouts. So until I know more...

Ti-Ti for Then and Ta-Ta for Now,
Evan G.

Got it!

Got it figured out! I can now post as "me"! (Thanks, Teresa, for the helpful information.)

As Christopher Robin said to Pooh: "You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

Karen

Summer Reading Program--It's (almost) here!

GET A CLUE @ YOUR LIBRARY!

We're putting the finishing touches on Get a Clue @ Your Library! (kids) and YNK @ Your Library! (teens), the themes for this year's summer reading programs at Bradford! Our tech person will soon have links to the flyers from the library website, but until then, I'll give you some basic info. that will get you going. You can also pick up copies of the flyers at either of the library Circulation Desks. Registration begins Wednesday, June 6! As Teresa mentioned in an earlier post, we're taking it online this year for the first time and it's going to be a lot of fun for all of you and the staff, too! You will be able to create your account and access it wherever you have internet access, whether that's here at the library or from your home computer. There will soon be additional internet computers in the children's library so that you won't have such a long wait for access here.

You can start reading June 6 to earn prizes (and we've built in an extra prize level this year, plus special drawings when you attend our summer programs!). Programs will be starting up the following week, with Preschool Storytime every Thursday morning with Teresa Leonard at either the 10:00 session or the 11:00 session. Elementary Programs will be each Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 with Patricia Powell and Young Adult (Teen) Programs every Tuesday evening at 6:00 with Brianne Dennis.

You all keep asking for a return visit by The Bubbleman with his Bubble Magic program, so he'll be here Wednesday, July 25, at 6:30 p.m. And Yo-Yo Spinmaster Brent Dellinger pays a return visit, as well, with a free performance (including light and music show) at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 23. He will also be conducting a yo-yo workshop from 2:30-3:30 p.m. The cost for the Yo-Yo Workshop is $7.50 and is limited to 20 participants. Children's Singer/Songwriter Monty Harper will perform "Wacky, Witty Way-Out Songs" on Wednesday, July 11, at 6:30 p.m.--you won't want to miss this guy!

There will be two KPTS Share-A-Story Programs this summer: Saturday, June 9, at 11:00 a.m., and Saturday, July 14, at 11:00 a.m. Every child takes home a free book! Limit 20 families, please.

And for the Harry Potter fans, we will have our 2nd Hogwarts' Breakfast on Saturday, July 21, at 9:30 a.m.! Cost will be $5 per person. Limit 60. The Student Chapter of the American Library Association at ESU will be planning this event for us and they want it to be even better than our 1st Hogwarts' Breakfast two years ago!

We're in for a fun summer--stop in soon and pick up the flyers (and some fun books to read!)

Karen

The Children's Department will be closed all day tomorrow, May 1. We are going to be hard at work planning the splendid Summer Reading program of 2007. Please stay tuned for further developments.
The Adult and Young Adult Departments will be open.

If you are wondering what to do this summer in addition to the Summer Reading Program, have we got a book for you! The Family Manager's Guide to Summer Survival by Kathy Peel has plenty of great ideas to make summer fun, educational and enriching. You can find it in the Children's Department on the Parent/Teacher Shelf.

Happy May Day!

Teresa

The last Family Storytime of the Spring 2007 session went great today. We had a big group and several newcomers! It was hard to say goodbye, even if it is only until June 14.

The kids made May baskets and tissue paper flowers to go in them. Does anyone deliver May baskets anymore?

The very newest of new additions to our collection are The Sisters Grimm series written by Michael Buckley and illustrated by Peter Ferguson. We just put The Fairy-Tale Detectives, The Unusual Suspects and The Problem Child, out on the new books shelf this afternoon. Sisters Sabrina and Daphne Grimm keep busy solving mysteries in the town of Ferryport Landing, New York, where they have been sent to live with their grandmother, following the mysterious disappearance of their parents.

If you have been waiting on these books, now is your chance! If you have already read them, please feel free to submit a review. We would love to hear your opinions.

Check back for information on the 2007 Summer Reading Program.

Keep reading!

Teresa

The last Family Storytime of the Spring session is tomorrow, Thursday, April 26, at 10 A.M.. Our theme is “Flowers”. These are the books we will share:
Planting a Rainbow – Ehlert
Sunflower – Ford
Buster and the Dandelions – Madorko

We will be making a tisssue paper flower to take home.

The Family Storytime Summer 2007 session will start Thursday, June 14. In the summer we have storytimes at 10:00 and 11:00 due to the larger numbers attending.
See you at Storytime!!
Teresa