Upcycling

Upcycling is the process of using useless products to make products of better quality. It's recycling with a twist!

- Junk Drawer Jewelry
- Green Crafts
- Cool Crafts With Old Jeans

Spring Chickens

Learn more about these interesting birds at the library. Here are some great stories:

The Trouble with Chickens by Doreen Cronin
Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
The Secret Chicken Society by Judy Cox
Prairie Evers by Ellen Airgood

Explore America!

 

National parks were established to conserve parts of nature. They are a symbol of national pride. Explore them:

• National Parks by Alfred Runte
• The National Parks (DVD) by Ken Burns
• Discover America: the Smithsonian Book of the National Parks

Jazz Appreciation Month

 

April is Jazz Appreciation Month. Check out these books on Jazz or pick up a CD to listen:

- Why Jazz Happened
- What a Wonderful World
- I Walked With Giants
- CDs by John Coltrane, Miles Davis & Central PA's own Jazz Me

Raising a Life-long Reader

 

Get some great help from the library and these books for helping to develop a love of reading in your kids:

- The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
- The Between the Lions Book for Parents
- Read with Me : Best Books for Preschoolers

Get Cooking!

Are you a fan of Emeril or Rachel Ray? Try your hand at preparing dishes at home:

- Teen Cuisine
- Real Food Real Fast
- Fun Food
- Teens cook: how to make what you want to eat

Spring Brings Change

In the United States and Canada, more than 750 species of butterflies and 11,000 species of moths have been recorded. Check out these great books about butterflies and moths.

Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert
Don't Worry Bear by Greg Foley
Monarch and Milkweed by Helen Frost
Velma Gratch & the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison

Never Again

Holocaust Remembrance Day is April 8th. Use these materials to learn about this devastating event:

• A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal
• Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
• The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• The Diary of Anne Frank

Youth Art Month

 

March is Youth Art Month. Express your creative side with inspiration from these great artists and get technique ideas too.
- Painting Techniques
- Mary Cassatt
- Pablo Picasso
- Jackson Pollock
- Georgia O'Keeffe   

Laugh it Up!

 

Tickle your funny bone, tease your brain and solve some puzzles this month at the library.

- Riddles and brain teasers
- Knock-knock jokes
- Puzzles