Bookmark Contest - Don't Miss Your Chance!

Dearborn Public Library's Annual Bookmark Contest deadline is coming, so don't miss out!  Your last chance to design and submit a reading related bookmark is Friday, March 23, 2012.  Dearborn residents or students attending a Dearborn school and in grades 1-5 can participate.

Bookmarks must be done in BLACK INK and be 8.5” x 2”. Entrant’s name, grade and school must be written on the back in pencil. One entry per child. Entries may be dropped off at any Dearborn Public Library. For more details, pick up a special Bookmark Contest Flyer.

Get your creative gears turning and turn in your design by 5:30pm on Friday, March 23rd! 

VOTE NOW!

Today is the day!  Visit the Henry Ford Centennial Library's Children's Desk between now and November 10th to vote for your favorite book character!  There are four candidates and they need your votes NOW!

CAT the Cat

Lunch Lady

Owly



Thea Stilton



Summer Reading Program Kick-Off

Henry Ford Centennial Library is buzzing with excitement this week as we kick-off the Summer Reading Program! 

This week we have something special planned everyday.  Take a look!

Monday, June 13          Game Day     3:00-6:00pm

Ages 6-12.  There’s no reason to be board this summer.  Go old school or new school with board games and Wii to kick off the Summer Reading Program

Tuesday, June 14          Animal Magic with Mark Rosenthal     7:00pm  

All ages.  Join us for a fascinating program featuring a variety of animals, both rare and endangered, from almost every continent!  It’s sure to be a wild time!

Wednesday, June 15     Odds and Ends Craft     11:00am – 7:00pm

All ages.  Drop in and have fun creating with your family.  Younger children will need adult assistance.  While supplies last.

Thursday, June 16          Book Bingo     3:00pm and 6:00pm

Ages 6-12.  Feeling lucky?  Join us for Book Bingo!  Get a Bingo with favorite books and characters and win a book to help with your summer reading goals!  Registration must be made by phone or in person at any Dearborn Public Library.  Registration begins June 2nd.

Friday, June 17                Preschool Yoga     2:00pm

Ages 2-6.  Join Beth Vessels of Sweet Pea Yoga for some stretchy story fun.  Registration must be made by phone or in person at any Dearborn Public Library.  Registration begins June 3rd.

For more information about crafts and events, visit any Dearborn Public Library.  All programs and crafts take place at Henry Ford Centennial Library  Happy Reading!

Cast Your Vote!

Hello, Dearborn Readers! Head over to the Children's Choice Book Awards page to cast your vote for your favorite books of the year!


The winners will be announced on May 2nd, just in time for Children's Book Week. Cast your vote by April 29th to make sure your favorite book, author, or illustrator wins!

This year's finalists:

Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year

• Even Monsters Need Haircuts by Matthew McElligott (Walker)
• Hot Rod Hamster by Cynthia Lord, illustrated by Derek Anderson (Scholastic)
• How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills (Schwartz & Wade/Random House)
• Little Pink Pup by Johanna Kerby (Putnam/Penguin)
• Shark vs. Train by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld (Little, Brown)

Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year

• Babymouse #12: Burns Rubber by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm (Random House)
• Bad Kitty vs. Uncle Murray: The Uproar at the Front Door by Nick Bruel (Roaring Brook/Macmillan)
• Encyclopedia Mythologica: Gods & Heroes by Matthew Reinhart and Robert Sabuda (Candlewick)
• Finally by Wendy Mass (Scholastic)
• Lunch Lady and the Summer Camp Shakedown by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Knopf)

Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year

• Big Nate: In a Class by Himself by Lincoln Peirce (HarperCollins)
• It's a Book by Lane Smith (Roaring Brook/Macmillan)
• The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1) by Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion)
• Smile by Raina Telgemeier (Graphix/Scholastic)
• Zebrafish by Peter H. Reynolds and FableVision (Atheneum/S&S)

Teen Choice Book of the Year

• Burned (House of Night, Book 7) by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin/Macmillan)
• Fang (A Maximum Ride Novel) by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
• Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
• Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy, Book 5) by Richelle Mead (Razorbill/Penguin)
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan (Dutton/Penguin)

Author of the Year

• Cassandra Clare for Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, Book 1) (McElderry/S&S)
• Suzanne Collins for Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) (Scholastic Press)
• Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth (Amulet/Abrams)
• Stephenie Meyer for The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (Megan Tingley/Little, Brown)
• Rick Riordan for The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) (Disney-Hyperion)

Illustrator of the Year

• Robin Preiss Glasser for Fancy Nancy and the Fabulous Fashion Boutique (HarperCollins)
• Loren Long for Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters (Knopf)
• Nancy Tillman for Wherever You Are: My Love Will Find You (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan)
• David Wiesner for Art & Max (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Mo Willems for Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins)

Wondering if the library has some of the nominated books? Click on the links above to go straight to the Dearborn Public Library's online catalog!

Share some of your other favorite books in the comments below!

Goodbye...and Hello

Hi!

If you've visited Henry Ford Centennial Library lately, you might have noticed some new faces at the Reading House. After many years, many visits and many fun hours of hanging with the kids, Blackberry and Honey Bear needed to retire. They want you to know that they had lots of fun and hope you won't miss them too terribly. They are also very sorry they couldn't have a retirement party or anything. Both would have loved the hugs and kisses.

Taking up residence in the house and waiting for fun and stories with you are Muffin Moose and Goldie Bear. Muffin and Goldie heard about our vacancy and were thrilled at the chance to come here. They were even able to get some job training from Blackberry before he left.

Please be sure to stop by and welcome our new friends to the Reading House and to the Henry Ford Centennial Library.

Be Creative @ Your Library!!

Summer Reading Program Starts Today!

We have a lot of fun things going on. Crafts, storytimes and more.

Read books and get stuff! And...Summer Reading Program isn't just for Readers. Kids being read to and kids under age 3 also can participate!

Teens, Moms and Dads can talk to the Adult Reference Desk and register for their very own program.

So avoid brain rot and be creative!

Congratualtions and Be Prosperous Winners

It was a busy day yesterday at the library.

We celebrated the start of the Year of the Ox. 恭喜發財, Gong hei fat choi, "Congratulations and be prosperous!" The Lunar New Year is a multi-day celebration so you still have time to join in the festivities! A great way to celebrate would be to have a Chinese meal or fortune cookies. The library also has several Chinese folktales, books about the Lunar New Year and books by Chinese and Chinese-American authors like Grace Lin. So, congratulations and be prosperous!

Also yesterday, the American Library Association announced several awards for children's books.


The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman was named the Newbery Medal winner. Newbery Honor books are The Underneath by Kathi Applet, The Surrender Tree: poems of Cuba's Struggle for freedom by Margarita Engle, Savvy by Ingrid Law and After Tupac and D. Foster by Jacqueline Woodson.






The Caldecott Medal winner is The House in the Night illustrated by Beth Krommes and written by Susan Marie Swanson. Caldecott Honor books are A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever written and illustrated by Marla Frazee, How I Learned Geography written and illustrated by Uri Shulevitz, and River of Words: the story of William Carlos Williams illustrated by Melissa Sweet and written by Jen Bryant.



The Theodore Seuss Geisel Award is given for the best book for beginning readers. This year's winner is Are You Ready To Play Outside? by Mo Willems. The Geisel Honor books are Chicken said 'Cluck!' by Judyann Ackerman Grant, One Boy by Laura Vaccaro Seeger, Stinky by Eleanor Davis and Wolfsnail: a backyard predator by Sarah C. Campbell.



There are many, many more award winners. Be sure to check out the entire list and then check the library catalog. Interested in past years winners? Look at the ALA website.

Celebration is in the air. Join in!!

The final stretch

Well, it's the last week of Summer Reading Program. We've been having a great time here seeing all of you and learning all about bugs. The crafts have been great and storytimes fun. And reading, reading, reading! Everyone has been reading a bunch!

The fun doesn't have to end on Friday either. We have crafts, storytimes, and special programs all year around. Do you know that you can even get a special email that tells you about all of the fun things we do at the Dearborn Public Libraries? No really, you can! We'll send you a note right to your email box. Just go to our BookLetters sign up page, check the box next to Children's Programs @ the Dearborn Public Library, enter you email address and you'll be good to go!

We also have BookLetters highlighting new fiction and non-fiction books that have come in and a Spotlight On special subjects in our collection. And there are even BookLetters that are great for adults too, including our Library Matters Newsletter!

So don't think that just because Summer Reading Program ends on Friday that all the fun is done! We have fun all year!