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The beloved writer and illustrator was born on this date in 1902. Visit your library and choose your favorite Dr. Seuss title to read today.

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Curl up and wait for spring with The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A Novel ofSnow and Courage by Chris Kurtz.

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February 29 is known as Leap Day and occurs in most years that are divisible by four. Use your extra day this month to visit your library.

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Funny, sad, or enlightening, celebrate the power of words by reading something aloud today.

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All aboard!  Two perennial childhood themes combine in this delightful title.  Hop on and chug through the alphabet with rhymes featuring both general and specific trains from around the world.  Young train enthusiasts will appreciate the soft realistic illustrations that incorporate both capital and lowercase versions of each highlighted letter.  A brief glossary provides additional information at an appropriate level.  Whether to read before bed or as part of a storytime, Alphabet Trainsis sure to have everyone whistling with pleasure. 

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Learn some interesting facts about our United States presidents and maybe find out if you have what it takes in So You Want to Be President? by Judith St. George.

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For a very funny story about NOT liking Valentine’s Day, check out Here Comes Valentine’s Cat by Deborah Underwood.

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This snow is the color of watermelon and also smells like watermelon.  But don’t eat it, because it gets its color and smell from tiny algae that love to grow in sub-zero temperatures.

 Need some winter ideas for playing in the snow? Come check out some of our books like Snow Play: How to Make Forts & Slides & Winter Campfires by Birgitta Ralston.

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Ring in the Year of the Monkey by reading The Magical Monkey King: Mischief in Heaven:Classic Chinese Folktales by Ji-Li Jiang.

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Rosa Parks was born on this date in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Learn more about this courageous woman in Rosa Parks by Christine Taylor-Butler.

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Head to your library and check out the book you love best!

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Find our list of new titles for children by clicking the link in the column to the right. It is under the heading

Booklist

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One day, Girl and Dragon played a game of hide and seek.  First, Dragon hid, curling his “Drag-enormo-self” behind a very small rock.  Try as she might, looking everywhere, even climbing a tree to get a better look, Girl cannot find him until Dragon jumps out with a resounding, “BOO!”  When it is Girl’s turn to hide, she runs far away, through the woods, across the logs in the bog, across a tall, tall bridge, “to a faraway place with such a hidey-hole place,” and she didn’t make a sound.  There she waited for Dragon. . ...

Pieby Sarah Weeks is a delicious mystery story which also contains 14 different pie recipes.

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      A meaningful story about a boy named Jackson and his family that have fallen on hard times.  Money is tight and they may have to move again.  Jackson takes on so much of the worry that his old friend Crenshaw the cat comes back to visit him.  The only problem is that Crenshaw is an imaginary friend and Jackson does not understand why he has come back now.  The last time Jackson saw Crenshaw he was seven and he thinks he is now way too old for an imaginary friend!  But he slowly figures out he needs someone to lean on and talk to and Crenshaw the...