Misadventures of the Monster Librarian

Our Summer Reading is coming up again the last weekend in May. We’re again hosting a Touch-a-truck (with a local tractor, police car, ambulance, and fire truck), 4-H animals, face painting for the kiddos, as well as a HUGE yard book sale (fingers crossed for good weather). Summer Reading 2014 themes: Kids: Fizz, Book, Read Teens: Spark a Reaction Adults: Literary Elements Our Summer Reading program, which is for all ages Birth-Adult, will again be 6 weeks long, and positively packed with over 60 activities for all ages. The things we’re most excited about for the kids are: Mr. Molecule, a performer who combines science/magic/comedy into a show that got very high reviews from EVERY ONE; a local “turtle lady;” a Lego Robotics class taught by a local institute that teaches the connections between Legos and science/math; and a Space Lab, which will be brought to us from the Toledo Imagination Station.  The Teen/Adult programs that we’re excited about are: Bigfoot,...

Went to a conference about Summer Reading '14 on Friday which got the creative juices flowing with all of the ideas for children's and teen programs that were shared! Prairie Dawn and I will be sitting down soon to put the calendars together for our 6 weeks of Summer Reading. This will be easy, as 1. I've already booked all of our entertainment/speakers and 2. we came up with a good template of how the weeks should run last year; each day had an event that happened that same day each of the 6 week, i.e. Make n' Take Mondays, STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) Tuesdays Movie Wednesdays Game day Thursday Fun Fridays: we rotated between doing things like face painting, or parties (Superhero Party, Prince & Princess Party, etc.) We found that doing it this way was easier on us, and also helped the families have a better sense of what was happening on which days, because even though everyone was given the calendars of events, no one seems to read the D...