Summer Reading List

Summer Reading Club is off to a great start! Over 400 children are busy tracking their reading progress and participating in the many programs and activities being presented by the Children's Department. This year's Summer Reading Club artist, David Catrow, is the illustrator of a number of fantastic books for children, many of which are available on our shelves. Take a look at a selection of these titles in the list below:

I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
by Karen Beaumont
Published 2005 by Harcourt Children's Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780152024888

Doggone Dogs!
by Karen Beaumont
Published 2008 by Dial Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780803731578

I Like Myself!
by Karen Beaumont
Published 2004 by Harcourt Children's Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780152020132

The Emperor's Old Clothes
by Kathryn Lasky
Published 1999 by Harcourt Children's Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780152003845

On Top of the Potty: And Other Get-Up-And-Go Songs
by Alan Katz
Published 2008 by Margaret K. McElderry Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780689862151

We the Kids
by David Catrow
Published 2002 by Dial Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780803725539

You can place holds on these and other books any time through our online catalog.

Be Creative @ Your Library!

Summer Reading Club begins on June 8. Stop in the Children's Department any time on Monday to sign up for Summer Reading Club, make a craft, and watch one of the many performers who are scheduled to entertain from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM.

Summer Reading Club continues through July 18th and you can register at any time during the six weeks between the kick-off on June 8th and the wrap-up talent show event in July. Reading club members track time spent reading or being read to in their reading records and may attend any or all of the events the library has planned.

For more information, contact the Children's Department at 330.832.5037.

Angels & Demons at the Library

The film version of Dan Brown's Angels & Demons hits theaters today. Before you check out the movie, read the book!

Books In A Box Your library has multiple copies of select titles available for use in classrooms or by book discussion groups. To borrow the Angels & Demons Books In a Box set, or one of the other sets in our collection, contact the Children's Department at 330.832.5037.

Other Titles by Dan Brown:

The Da Vinci Code

Deception Point

Digital Fortress

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Watch The Da Vinci Code on DVD.

Related Links:

The Official Web Site of Bestselling Author Dan Brown

Yahoo!Movies Angels & Demons Site

April is National Poetry Month

The Big Read 2009

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts and is designed to bring literature and reading back to the center of American culture.

In Massillon, participating libraries, museums and universities have partnered to provide a variety of book discussion sessions, programs and other events organized around Wharton's classic novel, The Age of Innocence. Scheduled events will take place throughout the month of March and everyone is invited to attend as many of the events as they wish.

For more information, visit our Big Read site!

New Reading Services Available!

In cooperation with DearReader.com, your library introduces three new online reading resources to help you find interesting things to read and track your personal reading tastes.

To encourage use of these new services, we will be holding drawings for gift certificates to The Village Bookshelf. Earn entries in the drawings by registering for any or all of the services described here. One prize valued at $20.00 will be awarded for each service (Book News, Online Book Clubs, and Next Good Book).

You may register for all three drawings, but may only win one certificate. If the same email address is drawn for more than one service, a second email address will be drawn in order to have three different winners. The contest began on February 9, 2009, and drawing entries will be collected until March 9, 2009. Winners will be selected by March 14 and will be contacted by email.

Registration for services will continue indefinitely after the contest deadline, but only email addresses collected before March 9th will be considered for the drawing.

Click on the highlighted name of a service below or a logo from the left column to register and be eligible for a drawing prize. Happy reading!

Online Book Clubs

Sign up for thematic online book clubs to receive five-minute selections from featured book tiles in your email Inbox each weekday morning. By the end of the week, you will have a 2-3 chapter head start on a book, which may then be borrowed from the library if the you want to finish the story. There are currently eleven email book club subjects to choose from, including mysteries, pre-published fiction, non-fiction, books for teens, and several other topics.

BookNews

This service provides access to free electronic book lists that can be delivered directly to your email address or RSS reader. The newsletters include reviews, descriptions and author commentaries. The newsletters link directly to the library's online catalog, where you can place holds on items you wish to check out.

Next Good Book

The third reading selection resource is an interactive site that invites
you to create lists of books you have read, label books and keep them on virtual "shelves" or lists in the system, look at shelves created by other readers, and submit comments about books online.

Winter Wonderland

The weather outside is frightful, but these books are so delightful!

Snuggle up for some winter fun with snowy selections from this month's Children's Books list.