Just in time for Memorial Day weekend we received seven new movies. 

The Golden Compass
The Waterhorse
Beowulf
Cloverfield
Lions for Lambs 
Juno Charlie Wilson's War

Because the Mulberry Library will be closed over the holiday weekend the movies are not due back until May 28th. 

Hope everyone has a great holiday. 

Don't forget to sign up for Summer Reading Club. 

We also have applications for free piano lessons.

Summer Reading sign up begins May 21.  The theme this year will be "Get a Clue @ Your Library."  For elementary age children the program will remain the same.  Get up to 3 points a week by checking out books, coming to a program, and doing a book report.  Prizes are available from 1-4 points, books are 4 point prizes.  A list of programs will be sent to Clinton Prairie.

For the first time, we're having a Young Adult program as well!  For those ages 12-18 who are interested we will be giving them a Bingo sheet with categories of different materials available at the library.  When the student checks out the material listed in a square that square gets marked off.  When a whole row is completed they get something out of the prize box and their name put in a drawing, when 3 rows are completed they get a free YA book and their name in the drawing, and when the whole card is completed they get a prize, their name in a drawing, and a free YA book.  The drawing will take place at the end of the summer.

Come check out the fun this summer!

The book Dragonwings by Laurence Yep is on the 7th grade Clinton Prairie reading list, but it was also chosen to be part of the We the People Bookshelf list.  All of the books chosen for the We the People Bookshelf list explore ideas on becoming an American citizen.  

In the case of Dragonwings, a story is told about an 8 year old boy, named Moon Shadow, who sailed from China to join his father, Windrider, whom he had never met, in Chinatown located San Francisco, California, in the early 1903. 

How would you feel being a new person in a strange new place that was a whole new country, and was to live with a father that you had never known?

Put yourself in the place of Moon Shadow, and tell me about it!  Read the book Dragonwings by Laurence yep and then do the following:  Click on this link http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/drag/chinatn.jpg and look at the picture of Chinatown that was taken in 1898, which was just 5 years before Moon Shadow would have arrived in 1903.  

What details from the picture do you notice?  What looks familiar to you?  What looks strange or different?

Once you have viewed the photograph and have taken notes on the details that you notice in the photograph, write a paragraph about it!  Pretend that you are a newcomer to San Francisco.  Describe what you see, smell, hear, and feel.  Put yourself in Moon Shadows shoes and how it would have been to experience Chinatown in 1903.

The next School Age Special will be on Monday, February 19 from 5:30-6:30 at the library.  Sign up at the library.

Toddler Time and Story Hour will be held at the library on February 9, 16, & 23.

Toddler Time will be from 9:10-9:40 am and is for ages 18-36 months and Story Hour will be from 10-11 am and is for ages 3-Kindergarten.

Registration is required - call the library for more details or visit our web site
http://www.accs.net/fcpl/mulb.htm

The holidays are a time of giving and getting, enjoying being with family, and a few of your favorite things…

Tell us what some of your favorite things are, whether it is football, basketball, X-Box 360, the new Nintendo Wii, a book or movie you especially enjoyed, or anything else!

I bet that you will be surprised to find, though, that many of your favorite things are enjoyed by others around the world.  The list of items that you give us will be posted at the library along with where else in the world these items or activities are enjoyed.  We will explore what it means to be an American!!