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A successful summer at Waldinger Library – LIHerald.com – Nassau County’s source for local news, breaking news, sports, entertainment & shopping

By admin | Published: August 29, 2012

More than 400 children completed the summer reading program requirements at the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, and were invited to a pair of special activities last week as a reward. “This is definitely one of our best years, if not the best,” children’s librarian Jaclyn Kunz said about the amount of participation. “There was a [...]

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Mahy a trailblazer for children’s books

By admin | Published: July 25, 2012

Members of Nelson’s literary community have joined others from around the country to remember one of the country’s most loved children’s book authors, Margaret Mahy, who died in Christchurch yesterday. former Nelson children’s librarian Mary Gavin, who had a long association with Ms Mahy, described her as an “amazing, unique woman”. Ms Mahy, who was [...]

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Important for kids to read in summer months

By admin | Published: July 5, 2012

Some of Sandi Rainwater’s favorite memories with her children are those of them reading together. “When my kids were young, one of the most memorable, pleasurable things we did was read together,” she said. “The most valuable time was the time we sat down together and read books. There’s not anything else like that, to [...]

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Mile Markers

By admin | Published: July 2, 2012

Kids summer reading program The Key West library offers summer reading for children this year around the theme “Reach for the Stars.” The Children and Young Adult Department will host special Saturday programs from July 7 to Aug. 4 that will include the themes Dream big, Martian Mania, Starry Nights, Fairy Tales and Monster of [...]

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Radnor’s children’s librarian retires after nearly 42 years

By admin | Published: June 28, 2012

“Even during her retirement party on Sunday afternoon, Dorothy Carlson could not help doing what she loves best: being a children’s librarian.A brother and sister came up to her in the children’s section and her first reaction was to kneel down to their height and entertain them with Hope, a two-toed sloth hand puppet, in [...]

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Children’s Story Classes Pawtucket Library

By admin | Published: June 16, 2012

13 Summer Street Children ages 5 and under with an adult caregiver are invited to the Pawtucket Library’s Caidin Room to share stories, songs and other fun activities during weekly story classes from June – August. story classes usually last between 30 to 45 minutes. Siblings are welcome. Registration is encouraged but not required.  Register [...]

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Fairy Tale Ending: Downtown Filmmaker Sara Driver’s Lost Film, Found

By admin | Published: March 28, 2012

The way that Sara Driver tells the story of the resurfacing of her 1981 debut film, You Are not I, has a touch of the mystical about it—which isn’t strange coming from Driver, who confesses to a “love of fairy tales, the way things from them echo your own life.” A 48-minute adaptation of a [...]

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Grant Opportunity for Rural Libraries for Books for Children

By admin | Published: February 3, 2012

GRANT OPPORTUNITY FOR RURAL LIBRARIES The Libri Foundation is currently accepting applications for its 2012BOOKS FOR CHILDREN grants. The Libri Foundation is a nationwide non-profit organization whichdonates new, quality, hardcover children’s books to small, rural publiclibraries throughout the United States. since October 1990, theFoundation has donated over $5,000,000 worth of new children’s books tomore than [...]

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Mission: Get children excited about reading

By admin | Published: January 14, 2012

Mary Ann McKay’s puppet asks kindergarten students in Tina Carmell’s class at MES about a story she read to them. by Tom Chillemi Mary Ann McKay will go to great lengths to get children to read. As the youth service coordinator for the Middlesex County Public Library, McKay has expanded the library’s reading programs into [...]

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Yorktown Library welcomes new children's librarian

By admin | Published: October 28, 2011

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