Join us on Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Takoma Park Community Center auditorium for the launch of Dork Diaries Book No. 8. Author Rachel Renee Russell, joined by her daughters Erin and Niki Russell, will unveil Tales from a Not-So Happily Ever After, the latest book in the best-selling series, and then take questions from the audience. The event will conclude with a book-signing. Note: seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis in the auditorium. Check out the excitement on the author's fun website
Full-length video of Kate DiCamillo's recent Takoma Park question and answer session is now available. (About 47 minutes)
Thanks Takoma Park CityTV
Join us tonight, Sept. 22, at 7 p.m. for our monthly Caldecott Club, a family book club. At the program, we'll read some great new picture books, discuss their merits for the 2015 Caldecott Medal, and then vote on our favorites. It's a wonderful program for all ages; lemonade and cookies also are served! No registration required. Just come and join us tonight for a some fun with books!
We will have all ages crafts this Sunday, Sept. 21 from 2-4.
Feel free to drop in between those hours or stay the duration. There will be a variety of crafts, including foam craft kits, stickers, photo cubes, rainbow loom bracelet making, fall leaves, lightning bug jars with glow sticks, and more.
Join us tonight Thursday Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. to hear Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Marla Frazee read her newest picture book, The Farmer and the Clown.
The Farmer and the Clown
The book has been getting lots of buzz from children's book experts as a top possibility for the 2015 Caldecott Medal. Frazee won a Caldecott Honor in 2010 for her illustrations for All the World, a picture book written by Liz Garton Scanlon. Frazee also does the illustrations for the popular Clementine chapter books, written by Sara Pennypacker. Politics & Prose Bookstore will sell copies of Frazee's books this evening, but the program is free and no purchase is required. Here's a snippet from The Horn Book website to give you a preview of tonight's program: Marla Frazee, wipe that smile off your face! - The Horn Book
We will have all ages crafts this Sunday, Sept. 21 from 2-4.
Feel free to drop in between those hours or stay the duration. There will be a variety of crafts, including foam craft kits, stickers, photo cubes, rainbow loom bracelet making, fall leaves, lightning bug jars with glow sticks, and more.
Do you know the difference between gender identity and gender expression?
How to support someone who comes out to you?
The meaning of the word intersex?
These questions and more will be answered at LGBTQ+ Awareness, a presentation about different sexual orientations and gender identities.
LGBTQ Resources will be available. This program is for all ages.
Tues, Sept. 16 @ 7:30 pm
Children's Room, Takoma ParK MD Library (101 Philadelphia Ave.)
Reminder: Special LGBTQ+ Awareness program at the library on September 16th.
Christensen, Bonnie - Fabulous! A Portrait of Andy Warhol
Ewert, Marcus – 10,000 Dresses
Garden, Nancy – Molly’s Family
Gonzalez, Rigoberto – Antonio’s Card
Greenberg, Keith Elliot - Zack’s Story: Growing Up With Same-Sex Parents
Harris, Robie H. It’s Not the Stork! A Book of Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends
Herthel, Jessica and Jazz Jennings - I Am Jazz
Hoffman, Mary - The Great Big Book of Families
Howe, James – Totally Joe
Kuklin, Susan - Families
Maddern, Eric = The Fire Children: A West African Creation Tale
Newman, Lesléa – Daddy, Papa, And Me
Newman, Lesléa – Mommy, Mama, And Me
Parr, Todd - The Family Book
Parr, Todd - We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families
Polacco, Patricia – In Our Mothers’ House
Richardson, Justin – And Tango Makes Three
Setterington, Ken – Mom And Mum Are Getting Married!
Warhola, James - Uncle Andy’s
Winter, Jonah - Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude
Zolotow, Charlotte - William's Doll
Gillespie, Peggy and Gigi Kaeser - Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Families
Johnson, Suzanne M. and Elizabeth O’Connor - For Lesbian Parents: Your Guide to Helping Your Family Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Proud
Marin, April - The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families
Miller, Amie Klempnauer - She Looks Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood
Solomon, Andrew - Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Join us Monday September 8 at 7 p.m. for the gala celebration ending another great Summer Quest reading program! Anyone who participated in Summer Quest 2014 -- even if you didn't finish -- is welcome to attend the celebration. We'll talk about books we read and loved (or loathed), look at what participants created for the make-or-do challenge, and discuss possible themes for next year's Summer Quest. We'll also have cupcakes and lemonade, and everyone will head home with free books! Registration encouraged to make sure we have enough cupcakes; to register go to:Library - Takoma Park or call us at 301-891-7259.
Join us tonight at 7:30 p.m. when award-winning graphic novelist David Petersen talks about his Mouse Guard books. Petersen also will be doing a drawing demonstration. Copies of the Mouse Guard books will be available for purchase, courtesy of Fantom Comics. But the event is free, and no purchase is required to attend. Peterson's books are particularly popular with our readers ages 8-12, but younger readers, as well as teens and adults also enjoy them. Dave Burbank, our library's comics guru, has more information about Petersen and the Mouse Guard series in his
Comics Blog.
Do you know the difference between gender identity and gender expression?
How to support someone who comes out to you?
The meaning of the word intersex?
These questions and more will be answered at LGBTQ+ Awareness, a presentation about different sexual orientations and gender identities.
LGBTQ Resources will be available. This program is for all ages.
Tues, Sept. 16 @ 7:30 pm
Children's Room, Takoma ParK MD Library (101 Philadelphia Ave.)