Scarecrows

One of the best things about the Autumn season is Scarecrows! This week join us for a Scarecrow Story Time. Click around Acorn's Autumn Story Room and see what you can find!

Read along with Ms. Carrie to chapters 1 and 2 of Calendar Mysteries: October Ogre written by Ron Roy.

Hello Autumn!

Autumn is finally here! Celebrate Autumn with Acorn and a Story Time full of fun things to do!

Read along with Ms. Carrie to the final chapters of Calendar Mysteries: September Sneakers by Ron Roy.

Life on the Farm

This week is all about life on the farm! Click around the Story Room for a story, song, and fun farm activities and crafts.

Read along with Ms. Carrie to chapters 5 and 6 of Calendar Mysteries: September Sneakers by Ron Roy.

Teddy Bear Day

 

Are you celebrating Teddy Bear Day? Acorn's Story Time is all about Teddy Bears. Click around for a story, song, crafts, and a bear bread recipe.

Read along with Ms. Carrie to chapters 3 and 4 of Calendar Mysteries: September Sneakers by Ron Roy.

Do You Have a Library Card?

 

September is Library Card Sign Up Month! Check out Acorn's Story Room for a library themed story time. Remember, if you don't have a library card, go to your local library and sign up for one. Tell them Acorn sent you!

Read along with Ms. Carrie to Chapters 1 & 2 of Calendar Mysteries: September Sneakers by Ron Roy.

Crayons

 

Coloring with crayons is fun, but that's not all they can do! Click around the Story Room to find a story, song, and a craft to make crayon play dough.

Read along with Ms. Carrie to the final chapter of Calendar Mysteries: August Acrobat by Ron Roy.

Baseball

Play ball! Baseball is Acorn Squirrel's favorite sport! That's why this week's theme is all about baseball. Click around the Story Room to find stories, crafts, and activities about baseball.

Read along with Ms. Carrie to chapters 7 & 8 of Calendar Mysteries: August Acrobat by Ron Roy.

Don't forget to join us at the Braves game this Saturday at 6:05 p.m. for Library Card Night at Trustmark Park!

Happy S'mores Day

Happy S'mores Day! Set up camp with Acorn this week and make yummy s'mores treats! Click around the Story Room for a story, craft ideas, and a s'mores recipe.

Read along with Ms. Carrie to chapters 5 & 6 of Calendar Mysteries: August Acrobat by Ron Roy.

 

This week we go back to school with the Pigeon, sing about why school is fun, and make a few crafts that will help you during school!

Read along with Ms. Carrie to chapters 3 & 4 of Calendar Mysteries: August Acrobat by Ron Roy.

Happy Watermelon Day

Happy Watermelon Day! Do you know how to draw a watermelon? Click around Acorn's Story Room to learn how. You will also find a story, crafts, and much more!

Read along with Ms. Carrie as she begins Calendar Mysteries: August Acrobat by Ron Roy.

Come back next week for more fun stories, crafts, and activities!

Let's go to the beach! Join us this week for stories and songs about the beach. You will also learn how to make your own beach at home with our weekly craft.

Read along with Ms. Carrie as she reads the last chapters of Calendar Mysteries: July Jitters by Ron Roy. Come back next week, August 3rd, as we kick off our Back to School month!

Slowly as the Sloth

What do you know about sloths? Yes, they are slow, but is there more to know? Join us this week to find out! We will have a books, an activity page, and a craft all about sloths. Click around the story room to find more.

Read along with Ms. Carrie to chapters 5 and 6 of Calendar Mysteries: July Jitters by Ron Roy. Come back next week, July 27th, to go to the beach!

Tails and Tales: Mermaids

 

Do you wish you had a mermaid tail? Join us this week for a book about mermaids, a mermaid activity page, and learn how to make your very own mermaid tail! Click around the story room for more fun things to do.

Read along with Ms. Carrie to chapters 3 and 4 of Calendar Mysteries: July Jitters by Ron Roy. Come back next week, July 20th for sloth stories!

Tails and Tales: Jellyfish

 

Jellyfish! Join us this week for a story time all about jellyfish. Make a jellyfish craft with us 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: July Jitters by Ron Roy.
Come back next week on July 13th for Mermaids!

 

Are you a horse? No, but you might like the story, Are You a Horse?  by Andy Rash. In Acorn's summer story room you can enjoy facts about horses, an activity, a song, and a craft, too. Watch a video of horses from around the world!

Read the last chapters of Calendar Mysteries: June Jam by Ron Roy with Ms. Carrie and come back next week as she begins Calendar Mysteries: July Jitters!

Tails and Tales: A Tale of a Tail

Click around Acorn's summer story room for tales about tails! There's a story about a lost tail, a song, and a craft to make your own animal tail. Fun!

Join Ms. Carrie as she reads chapters 7 and 8 of Calendar Mysteries: June Jam by Ron Roy. Come back next week to hear the last two chapters and listen to a story about horses.

Tails and Tales: Crocodiles

Crocodiles, yikes! You will find a song, a coloring sheet, a word puzzle, a craft, a video, and yes, even a story about crocodiles. Click around for a list of books about crocodiles that you can check out at your library, too! 

Read along with Ms. Carrie as she reads chapters 5 and 6 of Calendar Mysteries: June Jam by Ron Roy. 

Come back next week, June 22nd for more tails and tales! 

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!