Tuesday, June 18, 2013
CLOSED
All Branch Libraries will be closed on Tuesday, June 18th.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Toddler Storytime – 10:15am
Baby Bounce – 11:30am
Friday, June 21, 2013 – 3:00pm
Paper Airplane Day
Celebrate this popular craft and learn to how make and fly one for yourself.
Posted in Events | Tags: arts & crafts, Children, hours, summer
Today’s Google Doodle honors Maurice Sendak, the children’s book author and illustrator who would have turned 85 today.
A quick search for Sendak at the Montclair Library turns up 55 items by and about Sendak in the Children’s section, including a biography of him by Charlotte Guillain, the classic Where the Wild Things Are, the punchy poem about months Chicken Soup with Rice, and the recent “Where the Wild Things Are” movie.
Posted in Just for Fun | Tags: authors, books, Children, movies
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Toddler Storytime – 10:15am
Baby Bounce – 11:30am
Saturday, June 15, 2013 – 2:00pm
Summer Reading Kick-Off
Celebrate the start of the OPL Summer Reading Program with bubbles at the library!
The children’s reading program runs June 15-August 10. Sign up at the library or at oaklandsummerreading.com.
Kids up to age 12 who read 8 hours during the summer will receive a book and other prizes. Parents and older children may read to children who aren’t reading yet.
For teens age 12-18, the library offers a Teen Summer Passport program.
Get ready for summer reading with the Oakland Public Library! This year’s theme is “Reading is So Delicious!”, and there will be fun activities and prizes for readers of all ages between June 15-August 10, 2013. Get the full scoop on the OPL website: http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/kids/summer-reading
Mark your calendar now for these fun events for kids at the Montclair branch:
And there’s a delicious program for adults, too:
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 – 6:00-7:00pm – I Scream Sandwich!
Local culinary writer and consultant Jennie Schacht will discuss her new book I Scream Sandwich!. Schacht redefines this hugely popular sweet treat and shows us how it can easily be the star of a dinner party, child’s birthday bash, family picnic, or just a lazy summer afternoon. She will have her books to sell and sign, including Farmer’s Market Desserts and The Wine Lover’s Dessert Cookbook. There will be a period for questions and answers, then we will partake of ice cream sandwiches.
Keith Richards visits the NYPL in October 2010. Photo by Jori Klein.
Rolling Stone Keith Richards may be known as a rock-and-roll bad boy, but you probably didn’t know he was also a library scofflaw.
The New York Times reports that “Mr. Richards, in an interview with The Mirror, confessed that more than 50 years ago, as a teenager, he failed to return a number of books to his local library in Dartford, England, resulting in fines that British newspapers estimated would now have compounded to anywhere from £3,000 to £20,000 (about $4,500 to $30,000).”
Richards has been quoted elsewhere in praise of libraries, saying, “When you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equalizer.”
Read more about Richards in his autobiography, Life, or check out “The Best of the Rolling Stones” on CD, at the Montclair Library.
Posted in Just for Fun | Tags: books, music
It’s not too early to start thinking about summer reading! UC Berkeley recently published its annual list of recommended summer reading for incoming freshmen. This year’s list, featuring fiction and non-fiction, novels and poetry, classics and contemporary books, was compiled from the recommendations of graduating seniors.
Whether you’re in the class of 2017 or have been out of school for decades, the choices are inspiring:
How about Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert, a psychologist’s entertaining look at what makes people happy and why.
Or Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, a tale of loss and recovery as a young boy searches for clues in the wake of his father’s death in the World Trade Center collapse.
View the full list at http://reading.berkeley.edu/srl_2013.html
Posted in Just for Fun | Tags: books, reading, summer
Tuesday, May 28
LIBRARY CLOSED (Memorial Day)
Thursday, May 30
Toddler Storytime – 10:15am
Baby Bounce – 11:30am
Saturday, June 1
FOML Book Sale – 10:30am-3:00pm
May is Get Caught Reading Month, sponsored by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Get Caught Reading is “a nationwide campaign to remind people of all ages how much fun it is to read” – now there’s a platform we can support!
The campaign features posters of celebrities of all stripes reading, from singer Alicia Keyes reading The Secret Life of Bees to soccer star Alex Morgan reading The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. The newest celebrity poster shows Mercer Mayer, creator of the Little Critter series of children’s books.
Where will you get caught reading this month? Note: Always wear your helmet when reading on a motorcycle!
Posted in Just for Fun | Tags: authors, books, music, sports
Today is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday. Born May 22, 1859, Doyle is of course best known as the creator of pioneering crime fiction featuring detective Sherlock Holmes.
The Montclair Library Mystery section has classic Doyle stories like The Complete Sherlock Holmes and The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, as well as Holmes-inspired works like Barry Grant’s Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Letter and Garment of Shadows: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King.
Or learn about The London of Sherlock Holmes from author Michael Harrison.
If you’d prefer to watch your Holmes on a screen, check out the BBC’s series “Sherlock” on DVD or the 2010 “Sherlock Holmes” movie featuring Robert Downey, Jr. as Holmes.
Posted in Just for Fun | Tags: authors, books, history, mystery
Thursday, May 23
Toddler Storytime – 10:15am
Baby Bounce – 11:30am
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