Reader's Advisory Round Robin

At our last staff meeting, I asked the staff to bring one of their favourite/new children's books and share it with the group. Here were our staff picks:

From the shelves of the picture books:

A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound / by John Irving
Michael's Golden Rules / by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan
The Paper Bag Princess / by Robert Munsch
When You Were Small / by Sara O'Leary
The Big Bad Wolf and Me / by Delphine Perret
Hero Cat / by Eileen Spinelli
Ghost Train / by Paul Yee


From way over in the J fiction:

The Enormous Crocodile / by Roald Dahl
Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer / by JT Petty


And don't forget those crazy non-fiction books:

Phineas Gage / by John Fleischman
Legends of the Elders / by John W. Friesen


As you can see, we have great taste!

Happy Paperback Reader

"Thankyou, thankyou for your stocking Christian paperbacks! I have looked for them at the this branch but have never been able to find them and have had to go to Village Square to pick them up. Now I can get them at my home library." Quote from another happy customer!

2 happy guys

Two Spanish speaking men came in and asked for ESL books to improve their English. I took them to the ESL area and continued helping them. One of them was having a hard time explaining what he wanted. He asked if I spoke French andI replied that I did. He told me exactly what he wanted, and before long there were 2 happy guys leaving the library with everything they wanted and more....

Families Matter

It's so nice to see the same families socializing year after year in the program. Every time I have gone to do storytime I get to hear about their older children attending school and get to meet the new addition to their family.

The Secret Library Room Part 1

Last summer when I was visiting my parents in Ontario, I was saddened to see a vacant lot where the Trenton Public Library once stood. The quaint, red-bricked octagon housed the first library collection I had ever known. They must've had a huge yardsale to get rid of all those books. The abandoned site was surely slated for some new development with its propitious nearness to the Trent River, Fraser Park, and of course the local Tim Horton's. And by local, I mean THAT block. Trenton must have the most Tim Horton's per capita nationwide. The site seemed small without the strange little building. There had obviously never been a basement. So the Librarians couldn't have lived in the basement, I suppose. They must have had their own residence like the nuns and priests. It appeared as though the building had been scooped off the lot by a back hoe or perhaps it was folded up and taken away as some lawn chair seeking a sunnier patch of grass. Only small debris offered clues to its demolition; broken pieces of its red brick littered the scant lot. What I remember most about that doughty structure was the secret room. STAY TUNED FOR MORE OF THE SECRET ROOM...what crazy suspense!

Library Memories

I remember going to the Crescent Heights Public Libary with dad, mom and my big sister. I would take out books, including The Black Stallion series and a series about wild, twin, baby, animals. Mom would read to me in the morning, after dad had left for work and before I had to get ready for school.
Note: I like listening to book CDs while driving. Forest File's "Paperbag Princess" asked me if listening to book CDs made me sleepy. My answer is: mom read to me in the morning, therefore, listening to book CDs does not lull me to sleep, unlike other children who were read to before going to sleep at night.