The Children’s Library is springing into the season with a special program featuring activities created by local Master Gardeners and members of the Gardeners of Greater Akron.  How Does Your Garden Grow? will be held in the Children’s Library at 2 pm Saturday, April 21.  To get children into the gardening spirit, here are just [...]

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  Do you know a child who would rather play with the box than the item inside?  Then this book is for you.  Not a Box by Antoinette Portis is a simple book about the imaginative play that can take place with just a box.  It is dedicated “To children everywhere sitting in cardboard boxes.”  [...]

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Sue, who orders our picture books, suggests the following titles for giving to young children.  Press Here by Herve Tullet.    Press the yellow dot on the cover of this book, follow the instructions within, and embark upon a magical journey! Each page of this surprising book instructs the reader to press the dots, shake the [...]

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Anne-Marie selects our juvenile fiction and suggests the following titles as gifts for readers in your life:   Wonderstruck by Brain Selznick,  JFiction Set 50 years apart, two independent stories weave back and forth with mesmerizing symmetry. Playing with the form he created in his trailblazing debut novel, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” Caldecott Medalist [...]

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The Secret World of Walter Anderson by Hester Bass and illustrated by E.B. Lewis won the 2010 Orbis Pictus Award for outstanding children’s nonfiction last winter.  The award is presented annually, along with honor books and recommended titles, by the National Council of Teachers of English.  This is a beautifully told and illustrated book about an [...]

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Hello, Fish!  by Sylvia Earle Renowned underwater explorer, Sylvia Earle, takes you on a tour of the ocean using brief text and vivid oversize pictures to introduce such fish as the damselfish, red lipped batfish, and brown goby. Incredible Ocean! : Eye-Opening Photos Of Life Underwater  A picture is worth a thousand words and this [...]

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Are you looking for books that appeal to boys?  We have several lists of fiction for boys under our Books tab at the top of the page.  There are a lot of booklists under that tab, but click on the second heading, “Books for Boys”, and it will take you to printable lists including Fantasy and Science [...]

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Did you know that we have links to 40 author and illustrator websites under our Books tab?  From George Ancona to Paul Zelinsky, you can find out more about your favorite authors and illustrators here.  Favorites include Jan and Stan Berenstain, Jan Brett, Eric Carle, J.K. Rowling and Shel Silverstein.  Explore an author you don’t [...]

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