Tails and Tales: World Oceans Day

How big is a giant squid? What do you think is bigger than a giant squid? Listen to the story to find out! Click around Acorn's story room and read along with Ms. Carrie to chapters 3 and 4 of Calendar Mysteries: June Jam by Ron Roy.

Come back next week, June 15th for Crocodiles! 

Tails and Tales: Monkeys

Join Acorn in the summer story room for monkeys! Yes, they have tails and we are going to see that they also have tales...stories about monkeys. Sing a song with us about monkeys and look around Acorn's summer story room for more things to do.

Read along with Ms. Carrie as she begins the book Calendar Mysteries: June Jam by Ron Roy.

Come back next week on June 8th for World Oceans Day!

SUMMER IS HERE!

Join Acorn in the story room for some summer fun and listen to Ms. Carrie read the last chapters of Calendar Mystery: May Magic. 

Stay tuned next month for Calendar Mystery: June Jam by Ron Roy and read by Ms. Carrie.

Pete the Cat!

Join Acorn in the story room with Pete the Cat down on Old MacDonald's farm!

Listen and read along with Ms. Carrie for chapters 5 & 6 of Calendar Mysteries: May Magic by Ron Roy.

Frogs!

Join Acorn in the story room with some froggy friends!

Read along with Ms. Carrie as she reads chapters 3 & 4 of Calendar Mysteries: May Magic by Ron Roy.

May the 4th be with you!

It is Star Wars Day! Join Acorn in the story room; he is celebrating with a book called The Mandalorian: This is the Way and a Star Wars coloring sheet, puzzle, booklists; and you can learn to draw baby Yoda. Have a great Star Wars Day!

A new chapter book begins today; Calendar Mysteries: May Magic, chapters 1 & 2 read by Ms. Carrie.

BASEBALL!

Join Acorn in the story room for BASEBALL! Did you know that girls can play, too? In the booklists, you'll find books about girls and baseball!

Also, listen or read along as Ms. Carrie reads chapters 7, 8, & 9 to finish Calendar Mysteries: April Adventure by Ron Roy. Come back next month for May Magic!

Feel free to send any pictures you color or craft you complete to custsvc@cmrls.lib.ms.us. We would love to see them!

April 22 is Earth Day

Join Acorn in the story room! Acorn is wanting to celebrate Earth Day with you! Look around the story room for crafts, a coloring sheet, a story, and of course booklists with books about Earth Day.

Listen or read along with Ms. Carrie the 5th & 6th chapters of Calendar Mysteries: April Adventure by Ron Roy.

Autism Awareness

Join Acorn in the story room! April is Autism Awareness Month and Acorn wants to share with you a story and booklists about autism. There's a craft that anyone will have fun with but it is especially useful for keeping hands busy. The video of reading the book isn't working, please use this link (https://youtu.be/Bt_maSoJd7w).

Also, read along with Ms. Carrie chapters 3 & 4 of Calendar Mysteries: April Adventures by Ron Roy.

Friendship

Join Acorn in the story room! He's celebrating friendship! Acorn has lots of friends and he wants to share the library with all of them. If you color the picture of friends reading you can share your picture with Acorn. Have an adult help you add a picture of it in the comments below or take it to your library!

Read along with Ms. Carrie chapters 1 & 2 of Calendar Mysteries: April Adventures by Ron Roy.

Easter!

Join Acorn in the story room for a story, craft, activities, and booklists for Easter!

Listen or read along with Ms. Carrie as she reads chapters 7, 8, & 9 of Calendar Mysteries: March Mischief by Ron Roy.

It's spring!

Join Acorn in the story room as he welcomes spring. Listen or read along with Ms. Carrie as she reads more of Calendar Mysteries: March Mischief by Ron Roy. Come back next week for the last chapters! 

MARCH 17TH IS ST. PATRICK'S DAY

Join Acorn in the Story Room. 

Do you know how to catch a leprechaun? Join Acorn in the story room to find out!

Sit back and listen or read along with Ms. Carrie in chapters 5, 6, and 7 of Calendar Mysteries: March Mischief by Ron Roy. Come back next week for more of the story!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Inventors and inventions!

Join Acorn in the Story Room!

The airplane? The stethoscope? EARMUFFS? Haven't you ever wondered? Click around Acorn's story room and find out who and where they were invented! Make an airplane, sing about an airplane, and listen to a story about airplanes. Send us a picture of your airplane, we would love to see it.

Read along or listen to the next chapters to Calendar Mysteries: March Mischief. See you next week for more of the March story! 

Read Across America Day - March 2nd

Join Acorn in the Story Room!

March 2nd is Read Across America Day because it's Dr. Seuss's birthday! So, how do we celebrate? We read Dr. Seuss books!

Join Acorn in the Story Room for a story, craft, and a song about Green Eggs and Ham! Yum?

The March read-along chapter book begins today. It is Calendar Mysteries: March Mischief by Ron Roy. Read along with Ms. Carrie or listen and enjoy! 

Welcome to Acorn's Story Room

Welcome to the Story Room where each Tuesday at 12:00 noon. Virtual KiDS Story Times will be posted here and on the KiDS CMRLS Facebook Group page. Click around the story room and you will find books, crafts, activities, and more!

You can help us out if you will click the SurveyMonkey picture and lets us know how many participated and if you wish to you may leave a comment. Come back as often as you wish to see any of the previous story times that you may have missed.

Acorn says, "It's always time to READ!"

Check Meowt!It

Pete the Cat will be visiting CMRLS Libraries next month; yours may be one of them!
Check with the staff at your library and ask about times and dates in October when Pete will be there and probably with his friend Acorn the Squirrel. Acorn, the CMRLS mascot loves to have his friends visit! There will be stories and music and maybe even have your picture made with the two friends!

It's time to READ!

Fall Family Festival!

Come join us here at the Pearl Public Library on October 28th from 5:00-7:00 for our annual Fall Fest! There will be games, snacks, face painting, and Trick or Treating at the desks! Don't forget to wear your costume so you can participate in our costume contest! Don't miss out on all of the fun!!

 

Our Fall Reading Challenge is back! Our library wide goal this year is to read 20,000 pages and you can help! Just come by the Pearl Public Library and sign up to read your 500 pages! The last day to register is October 15th, so hurry in!!

Family Night @ The Pearl Public Library

Marshall Ramsey will be here talking to us about his newest book and maybe even drawing a thing or two, too! Come join us Thursday, September 19th @ 5:00 for refreshments and a fun time!

Florence: Diggin' Summer Reading!

 Summer Reading At Florence                                                                        Last Monday, June 3rd, some burrowing animals came with the Zoo Mobile to visit Florence Public Library and kick off Summer Reading 2013!  Here Lincoln holds the ferret, Sneakers as he tried very hard to get close to the children!  He really wanted to play.  We also saw a frog from Africa, a snake and a really, Really, REALLY BIG cockroach!  Wow! Who knew so many different kinds of critters lived underground!

Preschoolers' Summer Reading

The Florence preschoolers decided to get something all together different from under the ground.

We read stories about seeds growing into plants. Sang songs and then made our own flower pots that we called "Face Pots".

 We then went outside where even the youngest could get their hands dirty and planted seeds in our "face pots" to take home and watch grow.  That was not enough for this zealous group though, so we also planted seeds in hanging pots for the Library entrance so that everyone could enjoy some of what comes to us from under the ground!  Happy Summer Reading!

Summer Reading in Sebastopol

Summer reading kicked off at the Sebastopol Public Library yesterday with a bang. We were entertained and educated by the Zoo Mobile.  We got to not only meet many interesting animals, but also get up close and personal with them as we learned all about their lifestyle. If you missed it, check out our online calendar to see where the Zoo Mobile will be next.  And don't forget to join us next Tuesday afternoon for our movie day! 

"Dig Into Reading" Summer Reading Fun in Here!

Every Thursday at 2:00 for K-6th grade.
June 6  - Fire Department talking about fire safety.
   Then you can splash around in the water, so bring a towel.
June 13 - CMRLS Puppets
June 20 - Under the Earth - learn about underground animals.
June 27 - Dorian La Chance, Illusionist
July 4 - Closed for July 4th.
July 11 - Dig It! Craft Day - Make a flower pot and suncatchers.
July 18 - DigaSaurus Store

Tell all your friends where the fun is this summer - The Raleigh Public Library!

Registration time in Lake

Do you know what is missing in this picture?  It could be you or your child's name.  It's time now to register for the summer reading programs at the Lake Public Library.  The programs begin on June 6th, but you can register and pick up your registration packet now, so that you will be all ready to go and won't miss a minute of our puppet show next week.  You can come by the library to sign up or click here to take you to the link online.  It only takes a minute and you don't have to wait in line.  I hope to see your name on our underground wall soon!

Calling all Pearl Pirates!

Kids, did you know The Pearl Library has lots books all about pirates for all you Pearl Pirates out there? Well, we do! Here are just a few we have available for you to check out!!


Charlotte Jane is a little pirate with lots of energy! She is too busy with her many adventures to even think about bedtime, but what happens when Charlotte Jane decides she doesn't need sleep at all? 


In Shiver Me Letters- A Pirate ABC, a group of swashbuckling pirates are ordered by their captain to capture every letter! Can they do it, even X, Y, and Z?


Why did pirate ships smell so bad? Did pirates have wooden legs? Which pirate pair were famous for their beards? Find out the answers to all these questions and many, many more in I Wonder Why Pirates Wore Earrings!


In No Bath, No Cake a little girl invites a group of pirates to her birthday party! Does she like her pirates sparkling and clean with new clothes or smelly and stinky with rags? Come check out our newest pirate book to find out!


Coming soon to the Pearl Library is No Pirates Allowed Said Library Lou and we're excited about this one! Shiver me timbers, there's treasure hidden in the Seabreezy Library, but before Pirate Pete can get help from the librarian he must learn a few things first!

We hope to see all of you Pearl Pirates here at The Pearl Library soon!!

Puzzled by Pink Party!

Next week is National Library Week, so lets have a party!
On Tuesday, April 16th from 5:00-6:00 join us at The Pearl Public Library for a Puzzled by Pink Party! Mississippi's own Sarah Frances Hardy will be here reading and discussing her book, Puzzled by Pink. This is a book about two very different sisters--one who loves pink, tutus, and fairy wings, and one who loves ghosts and goblins and scary things and is completely mystified by the pink. Come in your favorite party attire--whether it's your own fairy wings and tutu, your spookiest costume, or just jeans and a t-shirt!

Come and enjoy the book, refreshments, and friends! We hope to see all of you there!!

Happy Hallo-Weenie!

Our Preschool friends had a great time at story time today! We read stories, sang songs, and had a Halloween party. We even had a very special visit from the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile! All of our friends got to see inside the Weinermobile and left with fun stickers and their very own Weenie Whistle!

To follow the Weinermobile's adventures click here.

Click on the picture to enlarge.

For more information on children's and family events at the Brandon Public Library, call 601-825-2672.

Brandon's Annual Pumpkin Contest!

Every year we have a pumpkin contest where patrons can vote on their favorite pumpkin by donating change. The proceeds benefit the Friends of the Brandon Public Library. This year's contest raised $71.80 for our friends! Thank you to everyone who entered and voted! Take a look at this year's great entries.

Click on image to enlarge.

For more information on how you can help the library,

call 601-825-2672!

Fall Family FUN Fest...



Wear your non-scary costume and come prepared for CANDY!



Come one, come all to the Fall Family FUN Fest! 

We will have a Bean Bag Toss, candy, Bowling, candy,

Little Debbie Walks, candy, the D.A.R.E. Car, candy, and much more!

Oh, and did I mention that you can win CANDY at the games?

You and your adults may wear your non-scary costumes 

or even come as yourself.

We hope to see you here!

Fall Family FUN Fest

Thursday, October 25th, 4:30 to 6:30 PM

Florence Public Library  



After School Activities @ Brandon

One of our 5th graders with
her original art work!

Our friends in Kid Corner and Creative Connection had a great time making their one of a kind "Resist Art" on Tuesday! We hope you can join us on Tuesdays @ 3:30 for Kid Corner (K-2nd) and Tuesdays @ 5:00 for Creative Connection (3rd-6th).

Next Week's Craft: Tuesday October 16th- Bring a pumpkin and we'll supply the paint! You can make whatever kind of pumpkin you want and even enter it in our Annual Pumpkin Contest!

Ask your librarians for more info, 601-825-2672.

Fall Reading Challenge @ Pearl!

It's time for the fourth annual Fall Reading Challenge at Pearl! Kids grades K-5 are invited to join us.  You have eight weeks (starting TODAY) to read 500 pages and win prizes! Everyone that reaches this goal will be rewarded with a celebratory meal (donated by subway!) and will be entered to win our GRAND PRIZE!  Read all about it on the flyer below and come by the Pearl Library to register!! The sooner you register, the sooner you can get reading!

Obert Skye @ Pearl Upper!

The lucky students at Pearl Upper Elementary had another awesome author visit them this week! The Pearl Public Library coordinated with the teachers and librarian at the school and also Lemuria Books in Jackson to bring him in.  The Quest students got the chance to speak with Obert Skye, author of the Leven Thumps series and also a new series, The Creature in my Closet.  The students, teachers and this librarian had a great time!  Thank you for coming Mr. Skye!

Happy Campers!

Thank you, Mrs. Seale from Lake Elementary for helping us reward all our readers from this summer!  Every student that participated in the summer reading programs at the library and received their reading certificate was rewarded by getting to leave school to come to see a movie at the library today.  The movie that was shown was The Lorax.  We are so proud of all the students that earned their ticket to the movie and hope we see a lot more of them throughout the school year. 

Shannon Hale Event @ Pearl Upper Elementary

This past Wednesday, the Pearl Public Library got to be part of a very special event.  Our staff coordinated with Lemuria Bookstore in Jackson and Pearl Upper Elementary to bring Newbery Honor author Shannon Hale to speak to the students at Pearl Upper.

All the kids at the school were very excited about hearing Mrs. Hale speak! Pearl Upper is a fourth and fifth grade school, and the books that Mrs. Hale was coming to promote were perfect for this age level:

Princess Academy and Princess Academy: Palace of Stone.



Mrs. Hale talked about her childhood, and how she had always loved to read and write. She told these kids that just because they didn't like a particular book, that didn't mean they didn't like reading. She said: ""If you read a book and it's boring, it's not your fault, it's the book's fault! It shouldn't have been so boring!" She reminded these kids that if they've ever read a single book that they liked, their librarian or bookseller can help them find another one. Just ask us!





Mrs. Hale was hilarious and the kids had a great time! Here they are answering questions and laughing at her jokes.

 







These kids even got to help Mrs. Hale act out a story! They retold Little Red Riding Hood--but they set it in Antarctica!



She graciously answered all of our questions!

This was such a fun event and all of the students that went had a blast.  Ask your teacher or librarian about maybe having an author come to your school! You can find Shannon Hale's books at the Pearl Public Library. And don't forget to ask at the librarian for a book that you won't think is boring!



Puppet Shows @ Brandon



Baby and Me



We had so much fun celebrating the end of Summer Reading with the CMRLS Puppeteers. Click on the pictures to see a larger image. For information on upcoming events call Brandon Public Library, 601-825-2672!



Preschool Story Time



K-6





Family Night Fun @ Brandon Library!

Jan Neal Patrick, Storyteller



Jackson ZooMobile



We've had so much fun these last few weeks at Brandon! Check out our family night pictures from our storyteller, Jan Neal Patrick, our visit from the Jackson ZooMobile, and our Family Game Night!

We hope you can join us this Thursday, July 12 @ 6:00 as we end Summer Reading with a bang! We will have a carnival complete with games, snacks and a visit from Yogi the Bear himself! For more information call the Brandon Public Library, 601-825-2672!



Family Game Night

(Click on the pictures to enlarge!)

Summer Reading @ Pearl Library!

Come to the Pearl Library THIS THURSDAY at 6:00 for our summer reading finale event! We will have all kinds of fun things for the whole family to do, and we'll also be drawing names for our GRAND PRIZE WINNERS! Remember, you MUST turn in your reading log this week to be eligible for grand prize drawing. See you Thursday!

Summer Reading @ the Pearl Library!

Relax after your July 4th fun with a family campfire night on Thursday! Storyteller Jan Neal Patrick will be present to tell us stories around the campfire. And remember to turn in your reading logs while you're here!