Starship Adventure booklist suggestions

The theme for this year's MA Statewide Library Summer Reading Program is Starship Adventure @ Your Library. One of our on-going programs here in Upton will include reading any book about space and creating a project to display at the end-of-summer Art Exhibit!

More info coming soon ... !

Click here for an annotated space-themed book list that appeared in the May 1, 2009 issue of School Library Journal.

Baby Sign Language Class

BabySigns with Paula Flaherty Bolotin will be held at the Upton Town Library during the month of June.

For more info about the class, visit Paula's website here: http://www.littleonescansign.com

Paula received funding through the Upton Cultural Council to provide a 4-week BabySigns class for Upton residents and their babies (appropriate for ages birth to 3yrs) so the class is FREE! We are requesting pre-registration, due to our limited space, and hope that families who sign up will commit to attending all 4 sessions. The class will be held on the 4 Wednesday mornings in June, at 10:30am in the Library. Please feel free to contact me with any questions!

Mark your calendar now ...

Come meet Tillie on May 14th!

Who is Tillie, you ask?

Tillie is a real live hen who stars in her very own picture book, Tillie Lays an Egg. Tillie, along with her owner, Terry Golson, the author of the book, will be visiting the Upton Town Hall on Thursday, May 14th at 2:30. (This special author appearance will be held, instead of our regularly-scheduled afternoon storytime session.)

Copies of Tillie Lays an Egg are currently available for purchase at Kaleidoscope Books, Cards & Gifts and can be brought to this event for Terry to sign. Copies will also be availble to purchase at the event. Following the storytime and booksigning, Terry has offered to stay a while longer to meet with members of the Upton 4-H Club, along with anyone else who may be interested in learning more about keeping backyard chickens!

This event is sponsored by a grant from the Circle of Friends Community Partnership for Children. Admission is Free!

Reminder/Update: School Vacation Week!

Hello Everyone!
Just wanted to remind you about our special event on Wednesday:

The Creature Teachers
Upton Town Hall
11am. Click here for more info!

• Thursday's preschool storytime sessions WILL both still be held, and we will be planting seeds to celebrate Earth Day!
  
  

• Friday's TinyTots LapSit StoryTime will NOT be held this week ~ See you in May!
  

Special Event for School Vacation Week!

The Upton Town Library

will be hosting The Creature Teachers at the

Upton Town Hall on Wednesday, April 22 at 11am.

A reading of If I Ran the Rainforest will be accompanied by the introduction of live animals mentioned in the story!

Admission is free and registration is not required.

This program is funded by a grant from the Circle of Friends Community Partnership for Children.

No Foolin' -- it's April!

A new series of BUG BOOKS has just landed in the Early Reader section ... and in this section you will also find ...
The newest Elephant & Piggie book from Mo Willems!

Some new picture books include:

. . . and just in time for Earth Day:

Just in: Barbie presents Thumbelina DVD

more new books & DVDs!

Here are a few more new items in the Children's area ...

Picture Books:


New Chapter Book Series:
Horse Diaries: Book #1: Elska

Non-fiction:

Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs!

DVDs:

Some new books....

Here is just a sampling of new items in the Children's Area!

Beginning Readers:



Picture Books:



Fiction:


Nonfiction:

March StoryTime Themes

In like a Lion and out like a Lamb .... well, once again, March certainly did arrive like a Lion, with a big storm canceling school on Monday, March 2nd! That was Read Across America Day, so along with Memorial School in Upton, we celebrated on Thursday, March 5, making our theme The Cat in the Hat! Check out some pictures by clicking here!

In anticipation of Spring, upcoming themes this month will include:

The Color Green

Spring has Sprung!

and baby farm animals, beginning with PIGS!

We'll continue our farm animals theme into April, first with Bunnies, followed by Lambs!