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Our "Color Our World" Summer Reading Program has ended. Thank you all for participating! I loved seeing your children's colorful log sheets each week and seeing the progress they made this summer. I hope everyone read some great stories, found new favorites, and enjoyed reading all summer long. Thank you for parents for encouraging your children to read! |
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DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year Kid's Movie: Saturday 9/13 1:00 pm Join Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Bumblebee and Katana at Super Hero High, where they train to become super heroes. 76 minutes in length |
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New Raffle! Complete a Trivia Sheet / Crossword Puzzle and Enter to win 2 tickets to see "Diary of a Wimpy Kid - The Musical" at The Growing Stage! Stop by Children's for your entries. Play runs Oct 10th - 26th! |
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Weekly Events for All Ages |
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Drop-In LEGOs We supply the LEGOs, you bring the creativity! Wednesday 9/3 & Tuesday 9/16 @ 4pm |
Build to your heart's content with the library's collection of Lincoln Logs. Wednesday 9/30 @ 4:00pm |
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Baby Play Time
Mondays @ 10am - 12pm Parents & caregivers are invited to socialize and have open-ended play with our toys and puzzles. Ages 0-5 |
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Rhythm, Rhyme, and Story Time with Miss Caroline Thursdays @ 10:30 am Enjoy weekly music and stories with Miss Caroline! * Registration is needed for 9/11 (we'll be in the small Children's Library Room) Registration opens the Monday before our Children's Library Room session (on 9/8). |
1000 Books Before Kindergarten |
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1000 Books Before Kindergarten
The Dillon Library participates in the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten early literacy program. Turn in your reading logs for prizes and more. For more information, please contact the Children's Librarian. |
Message from our Children’s Librarian On-line registration is required for the times our popular Rhythm, Rhyme, and Story Time with Miss Caroline will be held in the smaller Children's Library Room (this month: 9/11). Registration for these dates will begin the Monday before the events, on 9/8. Please go to www.dillonlibrary.org to register for each of your children attending as space is limited. You do not need to register for yourself (as the parent or caregiver / adult attending). NO REGISTRATION is needed for when Story Time will be hosted in the large, Community Room (9/4, 9/18 & 9/25). __________________________________ Our Summer Reading Program has ended for the summer. Hope everyone read some good books, enjoyed new stories, and had fun! _________________________ Our Instagram page (@CDPLkids) is up and running - check us out!  Visit and follow us! Maria Provini Children's Librarian, MLIS |
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* New to our collection * |
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Welcome to Kindergarten
by Anne F. Rockwell
Join Tim as he visits his future kindergarten classroom and learns what he will be doing during his first year of school: exploring the reading, math, and art centers plus practicing writing, counting, and telling time.
The classroom may look a little too big at first, but after finding out about all the fun ahead, it doesn't seem too big at all. In fact, it's just the right size.
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The Kissing Hand
by Audrey Penn
A mother raccoon teaches her son a way to overcome his fear about going to kindergarten for the first time.
A great book soon to be a favorite for all families!
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The Night before Kindergarten
by Natasha Wing
No more teddies and blankets—it's time for backpacks and pencils as children lay out their clothing and gather their school supplies the night before Kindergarten starts. But once everyone is in the classroom, will it be the children or the parents who have more trouble saying good-bye?
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The Yellow Bus
by Loren Long
A tender, gorgeously illustrated picture book telling a touching story about a forgotten school bus that finds happiness and purpose in the most unexpected places and in the journey along the way.
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The Crayons Go Back to School
by Drew Daywalt
In this entertaining back-to-school story starring the comical crayons from the #1 New York Times best-selling "The Day the Crayons Quit", the crayons look forward to their first day of school and letting loose during their favorite class — Art!
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There is a Tribe of Kids
by Lane Smith
A meditation on childhood and life's beginning, the author traces a young boy's fantastical encounters with a colony of penguins, a smack of jellyfish, a constellation of stars, and other enchanting groups!
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Daniel Goes to School
by Becky Friedman
Daniel Tiger wishes his father could stay at school with him but his father assures his son that even if he must go to work, grown-ups come back, and Teacher Harriet helps Daniel and his classmates enjoy the day - even without their parents.
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Bubble Gum Bison needs a Bath
by Scott Rothman
Bubble Gum Bison, Blue Bison's little sister, is having too much fun with her playground friends to take time out for a bath. In fact, she escapes through the bathroom window to avoid the inevitable! But when Bubble Gum Bison slips in the mud, gets covered with bubble gum, and has bird feathers stuck all-over her, she finally decides its time for a bath. But, what's this? There's no water! Could Blue Bison's ramming habit have anything to do with the hole in the water tank?
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Blue Bison needs a Haircut
by Scott Rothman
Blue Bison prides himself on always looking clean and neat. But he has a growing problem--his hair. With the barber shops and just about everywhere else closed, all Blue Bison can do is ram his ramming rock in frustration. Meanwhile, his hair keeps growing.
His dad, Brown Bison, encourages him to be patient and wait, and his mom, Burgundy Bison, tries to explain some truths to Blue Bison.
Could little sister Bubblegum Bison have the solution?
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The Tryout
by Christina Soontornvat
When best friends Christina, one of the only Asian American kids in her small Texas town, and Megan, who is Iranian American, try out to become middle school cheerleaders so they can better fit in, they find their friendship tested by competition and rivalry.
New in our Graphic Novel selection.
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And then, Boom!
by Lisa Fipps
Joe Oak is used to living on unsteady ground. His mom can't be depended on as she never stays around long once she gets "the itch," and now he and his beloved grandmother find themselves without a home. Fortunately, Joe has an outlet in his journals and drawings and takes comfort from the lessons of comic books-superheroes have a lot of "and then, boom" moments, where everything threatens to go bust but somehow they land on their feet.
He's never felt so alone-until an emaciated little dog and her two tiny pups cross his path. And fate has even more in store for Joe, because an actual tornado is about to hit home-and just when it seems all is lost, his life turns in a direction that he never could have predicted.
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Picture Day
by Sarah Sax
Seventh-grader Viv never looks forward to picture day. It's just another day where she wears a boring braid and no one notices her. (Her two best friends, Milo and Al, don't count, of course.)
But enough is enough. This year, she's taking matters into her own hands. Literally. Viv grabs a pair of scissors, her phone for live-streaming, and, well, bye-bye braid. Suddenly Viv is an over-night influencer at Brinkley Middle School.
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Rebellion 1776
by Laurie Halse Anderson
In 1776, 13-year-old Elspeth is alone in a city ravaged by the smallpox epidemic. As she finds work taking care of a large, wealthy family as they await a turn at inoculation, Elspeth tries to find her father who went missing during the Siege of Boston.
A good read for history buffs!
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Magnolia Wu Unfolds it All
by Chanel Miller
A self-proclaimed sock detective inside her parents' New York City laundromat, 10-year-old Magnolia Wu and Iris, a new friend from California, set off across the city to solve the mystery of each missing sock, meeting people and uncovering the unimaginable along the way.
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