It’s not too late to pull off an April Fools’ Day prank or two!  The Disney Family Fun website has some easy and fun ideas that you can try out.  Would you rather have “sponge” cake or “faked potatoes?”  Check out the following link for those and other ideas: http://familyfun.go.com/april-fools-day/april-fools-day-craft-pranks/ The library has books about [...]

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  Cleopatra rocks . . . or rules . . . or at least, she did.  That’s the subject of one of the many new biographies about women – some famous, others less well known – that are now available in the Children’s library.  Here are some of the newest titles to hit our biography [...]

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Did you know that the library carries eBooks for children?  You can now download free eBooks, Audiobooks, and Music using your Akron-Summit County Public Library card and the OverDrive service. This service supplies eBooks, audiobooks, music and video to thousands of libraries worldwide.  Click here for more information.  You can also check for more websites [...]

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The Pirate of Kindergarten was written by George Ella Lyon and illustrated by Lynne Avril and is the winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for Young Children.  This award is presented annually by the American Library Association to honor an author or illustrator of books that express the disability experience for children and teens.    [...]

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The winner of this year’s American Library Association’s Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award is Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot, written by Sy Montgomery with photographs by Nic Bishop. Kakapo Rescue is a fascinating look at a flightless parrot from New Zealand that is on the brink of extinction.  The photos by wildlife photographer [...]

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