Parkland Community Library Newsletter

<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> Parkland Community Library Newsletter

JavaScript must be enabled on your browser for this PAC to work properly.

Click on the tree to return to the Parkland Community Library's Home Page.

Preschoolers Kids Teens Youth Services Home Events What's New!

Winter Games Reading Club (for kids between the ages of 4 and 10) begins on December 20th! Winter Reading Club is a program designed and carried out by teen volunteers under the supervision of the Youth Services staff of the Parkland Community Library.

This year's Winter Reading Coordinator is Christina Smith from Cadette Scout Troop 6202.

Click here for the Winter Reading Club schedule, booklists, downloadable forms, websites and more.

Click in the box below to go to Tumblebooks.com and read dozens of picture books and chapter books online!

For other links, click here.

Upcoming Events:

Programs for School-aged children:

Storytimes (ages birth to 5)

LINKS:

LookyBook: Test drive picture books before you buy. http://lookybook.com/

Starfall: Sound out words with Starfall's picture stories. http://www.starfall.com/

Boys will love Jon Sciezka's Trucktown. http://www.behindthepulse.com/trucktown/index.php

www.janbrett.com Jan Brett's site boasts of 4138 FREE pages of activities, coloring pages and stuff

http://www.parents.com/parents/story.jsp?storyid=templatedata/parents/story/data/120216184132.xml - Check out the Best Books list for suggestions for babies, toddlers and older children.

http://www.scholastic.com/littlescholastic/ Parents, take note. Scholastic has a website for parents of toddlers and preschoolers with forums, advice and - of course- products that you can buy or pester your Youth Services Librarian to buy for the library. It looks like fun!

http://www.icdlbooks.org/ Write your own book or read books and stories written by children around the world at this site. The mission of the site is to make children aware of other countries besides their own and to foster global understanding.

http://www.sistersgrimm.com Check out this site for a very interesting writing contest for children between the ages of 10 and 14.

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ David K. Brown gathers websites that deal with books for toddlers through young adults. Take a look at his links.

http://www.parents-choice.org/ Parents' Choice offers recommendations on books, videos, toys, games, movies, music and other media for infants through teens.

http://www.bookhive.orgProduced by the librarians in Charlotte, NC, The Bookhive is a colorful, useful site. They even have Top 20 lists for grades 1 through 8. These are just suggestions, but the site is a good place to start.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-3D-Paper-Snowflake Directions for the snowflake hanging in the storytime room!

4422 Walbert Avenue • Allentown, PA 18104 • Phone: 610-398-1361