With the holidays just around the corner, we're getting ready at the Library!  When  you come in, check out all our Book Displays!

There are so many New Books, that we've added an extra shelf for Series (both fiction and non-fiction) and Graphic Novels.  Make your first stop just inside the Youth Services Area and check those out!  New series include the Jack Sparrow novels, a new Mike Venezia series on the Presidents of the U.S., and some really cool series on animals, religions and disasters!

On the opposite side of the Series Display, we have some Gift Suggestions for the Holidays.  Can't think of a gift for that special person?  Try one of our book suggestions!  If you think you can't remember the titles on display long enough to get to a book store, take one of our brochures with suggestions when you go!

Next, you'll hit our round display, with Craft Ideas for the Holidays!  Whether you're trying to find something to do during those boring weekends, or trying to come up with some handmade craft ideas for gift-giving...check out the books on the display. We guarantee you'll find one that fits your needs!

If you keep walking, you'll see me!  (And really, you can't miss me.) I'm sitting on top of the display of Christmas Books.  Koko and I are all dressed up in holiday attire, complete with a little tree we've been trying to decorate.  We have a lot of Christmas books, so be sure to check them out!

On the Children's Desk are books about Kwanzaa.  There are some fun ones in there, so look at them and see if there's something you like!

On the Picture Book Display are all our Hanukkah Books.  Hanukkah is early this year, so lots of them have already gone out.  Keep looking though, because there are some great stories about the holiday, as well as cookbooks and poetry.

The Picture Book Windowseat Display has Stories about Wolves...to go with our Wolf Talk special presentation on Saturday, December 1st.  Whether you visit and see the wolves or not, there are lots of books with facts about wolves, stories about the Big Bad Wolf, and stories about good wolves in the wild.  If you try one, we're sure you'll like it!

The Fiction shelves have Winter Books on display, at the end of each shelf, with the cover facing out.  Winter sports, winter holidays, blizzards, snowstorms, and more.  Take one for the next time you're snowed in!

Over the computer catalog, there's a small display of Chapter Books about the Holidays.  If you're looking for longer stories about Hanukkah or Christmas, look there!

...and that's it for displays.  Come in soon, and find the perfect book for you!  As always, ask any of the librarians if you need help finding anything.  That's what they're there for!

It's November...just two more months until 2008. That's even more scary than Halloween was!

We have lots of new book displays, if you want to come in and check them out! As you're coming in, turn to the right and see our  Try a Different Perspective display. Non-fiction, picture books and fiction from all our collections about seeing things from a different point of view. Read about Sherlock Holmes from the street rat point of view in The Case of the Baker Street Irregular"by Robert Newton. See the world from an ant's perspective in Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburgh. It's all very interesting.

If you continue straight on, you'll hit three free-standing displays.

Non-Fiction Not to Miss is on the round display, featuring factual books about a whole range of topics--from how to probe a volcano to how to run a sleepover to the lost colony of Roanoke to history's grossest moments! All interesting, and educational.

Veteran's Day is a display of books about Veterans, wars, and the military and includes everything from picture books about brave deeds during wartime to details of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber to fiction about living in wartime Europe.

On the other side are New books in series--Akiko, Frank & Joe Hardy, the girls of Ann Martin's Main Street, Jack Sparrow and Solomon Snow.

As for me, Bella, I'm sitting on a display of Thanksgiving Books! Whether you're looking for information about the holiday, crafts and recipes to try at home, or stories about going over the river and through the woods to visit grandma, we've got them! Also, if you're a third grader who needs to do a report on the Pilgrims or the Wampanoag, look on the bottom shelf under me and Koko. (Plus, check out our costumes. We're about as authentic as you can get for a couple of stuffed apes!)

On the picture book window seat windowsill, we have books about Teddy Bears.

On the other window, a display of Hanukkah Books is going up this weekend.

On top of the bookshelf, there are books about Visiting Family.  (Since that's what many people do over the holidays!)

Near the gerbil's cage, there's a small display of books on Adoption, since November is National Adoption Month.

On the desk, beside our library booklists, there are chapter books on Dragons.

That should be everything--there is a display on the dictionary stand of the books on the Massachusetts Book Awards list, if you're participating in that voting!

Now my fingers are hitting the wrong keys, so I'll just sign off. Come in and see my favorite Thanksgiving books when you get a chance!

Bella and friends have been busy changing all our book displays around for April!  If you're looking for suggestions, there are several new topics to try.

Bella's quite royal, sitting on her bookshelf wearing her crown and holding her sword and shield.  Koko's wearing a princess tiara and wimple.  On the shelves under them are Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.  If you like stories of princesses, dragons, talking animals and other tales remembered and handed down through the generations, then this display is for you.  From Cinderella to stone soup to Epossumondas, Bella's got them all!  (And if she doesn't, we can find it for you.)

On the Picture Book window display, we have cowboys, wagon trains and other Wild West topics.  Git yer hoss an' saddle up fer a good ole story!

Did you know that April is Poetry Month?  If you look on the computer beside Jo the Gerbil's cage, you'll see a display of some of our favorite poetry books.  Young, Old, Meek, Bold...everyone enjoys a poem!


If you're going to be around during Vacation Week, don't forget our Vacation Craft in the Craft Room.  Come in all day, any day (until 30 minutes before closing) and make a craft!  Directions are on the work tables, materials are on the supply table, and you bring your own imagination and craftiness!  Children who cannot read will need an adult to help them.  Some supplies may be at the Youth Desk, so make sure you look at the directions to know what you need!

Also during Vacation Week, we have a special Animal Adventure!  Come in on Wednesday, April 18th from 1:00 - 2:00 to meet and touch some real wild animals.  For more information on Animal Adventures, the organization coming to help us with this, visit animaladventures.net.

And we've changed our book displays!  Visit the library now to see Bella (and Koko) dressed in their spring outfits, including bunny ears!

Bella's Display:  Spring Holidays!
If you need a book on Easter, Passover, April Fool's Day, Earth Day and more, check out the books on Bella's shelf!

Spring Books!
Bunnies, eggs, flowers, gardens and all those signs of warmth coming back and snow disappearing are on the window display in the picture book area.  Come in and take something home to celebrate!


What We're Reading:
  Children's staff are reading several of the new spring releases!  Ask us what we'd recommend!

Kelly is reading:  The Game, by Diana Wynne Jones.

Beth is reading: Confessions of a Not-It Girl by Melissa Kantor

Jennie is reading: Alpha Dog by Jennifer Ziegler, Falling for Rapunzel by Leah Wilcox and Runaway Dinner by Allan Ahlberg.

Here we are...Bella and all her friends at the Weston Public Library! This will be our way of letting everyone know what's new at the library.

Currently, Bella has a new display for March...Leprechauns, St. Patrick and Tales of Ireland!Come in and check out picture books, fiction and non-fiction. Some of our favorites are Tim O'Toole and the Wee Folk by Gerald McDermott, The Boggart by Susan Cooper, and A Pot O' Gold : a Treasury of Irish Stories, Poetry, Folklore, and (of course) Blarney, selected and adapted by Kathleen Krull.

Other book displays you might like to look at include:

If you liked The Lightning Thief... stories featuring kids who meet gods and goddesses of many ancient cultures as either enemies or allies! One of Kelly's favorites is  The Thief  by Megan Whelan Turner; about Gen, a young thief in prison, forced by the kind of that country to steal a valuable artifact. Only everything is not quite as it seems and Gen has his own mission to fulfill.

Alphabet Books   Learn your ABCs with books from our display. ABCs on ships, butterflies, flowers, animals, racecars, and even kids named Matthew!

Explorers Are you a third grader who needs a book report on an Explorer? Lucky for you, Bella's friends have pulled a whole shelf full! Whether you want Ferdinand Cortez or Sacajawea, you'll find some good choices!

All these and more, when you visit Bella and her friends at the Library!