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Children's Library
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Drop-In LEGOs We supply the LEGOs, you bring the creativity! Friday 10/9 @ 4pm |
Drop-in Lincoln Log Play Build to your heart's content with the library's collection of Lincoln Logs. Wednesday 10/28 @ 4:00pm |
Weekly Events for All Ages |
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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 to start in November for our Children's Library Room sessions |
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Tuesday Toddler Story Time: 10:30 - 11:00 am Toddlers aged 2-5 years old are welcome to come with thier caregivers to this new weekly story time session. |
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. |
The Clarence Dillon Public Library will have a booth at this year's Fall Fest from 12-5 on Saturday, October 10th! Make sure to stop by and check us out! (Rain date is Sunday, October 11th) Message from our Children’s Librarian Pay homage to the diverse culture and heritage of Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America during Hispanic Heritage Month (9/15 - 10/15). During this time, read a Latinx biography, read a Latin folktale, check out a Hispanic cookbook and create something new. I invite you to take some time to explore the history, language, literature, and culture of the Latinx communities.
And why does Hispanic Heritage Month start on the 15th you ask? The reason is because September 15 holds cultural significance for five Latin American countries. It's the anniversary of independence for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
________ Our Instagram page (@CDPLkids) is up and running - check us out!  Visit and follow us! Maria Provini Children's Librarian |
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Halloween ABC
by Jannie Ho
This board book introduces simple seasonal words to get toddlers excited about Halloween, pairing the letters of the alphabet with bright pictures of friendly monsters and familiar spooky details of this holiday.
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What is Halloween?
by Harriet Ziefert
From making a costume with her mother to greeting trick-or-treaters at the door, Little Mouse discovers the wonders of Halloween, in a lift-the-flap book just right for beginners.
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Yes, Baby! Baby Signing
by Sarah Creese
Focusing on 25 key words, Yes, Baby! is a beautiful baby-signing book designed to encourage all people, big and small, to communicate. Each busy page combines sweet, relatable illustrations with fun rhymes and clear baby-signing instructions.
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Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles: A Curious Counting Book
by Steve Jenkins
Enjoy learning all kinds of fun facts about the animal world as you look for fingers, fins, teeth, and everything in between! Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles celebrates the unique traits of the many animals seen in nature. From the two-tongued loris to a scallop's 200 eyes, readers will find joy in numbers within this reimagined counting book.
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Every Monday Mabel: (Caldecott Honor)
by Jashar Awan
Every Monday, Mabel wakes up early and peeks out her window to make sure she didn't miss the one thing she's been looking forward to the whole week. She drags her chair down the hallway, past her big sister and Mom and Dad, out the door, and waits.
What is Mabel waiting for every Monday? According to Mabel, it's the best thing in the world. But no one else in her family seems to understand...until they see what's honking down the street!
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Fly Guy and the Frankenfly
by Tedd Arnold
Sharing a day of arts, crafts and spooky games with Fly Guy, Buzz falls asleep and has a nightmare that Fly Guy is a scary monster,! Not to worry - Buzz wakes up to discover that they were only Fly Guy's posters depicting their friendship.
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Cranberry Halloween
by Wende Devlin (local artist & author from Mountainside, NJ)
The citizens of Cranberryport need to raise money to build a new dock after theirs was destroyed in a storm. Almost everyone in town volunteers to help, with Mr. Whiskers volunteering to keep the money they raise in his grandfather's old moneybox. On their way to the town party on Halloween night, Maggie and Mr. Whiskers are confronted by two men in pirate costumes trying to steal the old moneybox. What will happen next?
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Helpers in Your Neighborhood (National Geographic Kids Readers, Pre-Reader)
by Shira Evans
Get to know the everyday heroes in your community! From firefighters to teachers, mail carriers to crossing guards, neighborhood helpers are all around. Young readers learn about the importance of cooperation and the people who lead the way in our communities. Perfect for beginning readers, National Geographic Pre-readers include simple, expert-vetted text and large, engaging photos on every page. A vocabulary tree at the beginning of the book introduces kids to key words in concept groups, helping kids make connections between words. Plus, a wrap-up activity gives kids a chance to use what they've learned, while expanding their understanding of the world.
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Whose Hands Are These? A Community Helper Guessing Book
by Miranda Paul
If your hands can mix and match, what job might you have? What if your hands reach, wrench, yank, and crank? The hands in this book--and the people attached to them--do all sorts of helpful work. And together, these helpers make their community a safe and fun place to live.
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Super Sight
by Jennifer Whitehead
Super Book Series presents Super Sight, a celebration of life with glasses and eye patches. An educational first-person children's story, Super Sight delights in new experiences, individuality and embracing the journey.
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Super Hearing
by Jennifer Whitehead
Super Hearing is a celebration of life with hearing aids, here to educate and encourage acceptance in every form. A kind and inclusive story, this book combines a child's first-person experience living with hearing aids, with beautiful illustrations to connect kids of all hearing ranges.
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Bookie & Cookie Turn the Page
by Blanca Gómez
What does the future hold for these two friends? They have lots of guesses that are a very funny mix of excitement and anxiety. But the only way to know for sure is to actually turn the page!
In this companion to Bookie & Cookie, the friends find themselves on a blank page, wondering what might be next. Bookie imagines something wonderful such as a bright sunny day, but Cookie worries that it might be something terrible, like an awful stormy day.
A delightful surprise is waiting.
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The Dinosaur and the Bird: A Tale of Prehistoric Friendship
by Richard Ho
A lonely dinosaur had one wish: to care for another. When she saves an injured bird, a friendship begins. Together, they feast, play, and roam a vast and vibrant land. But when the bright flash of a meteor lights up the sky, the world around them begins to change. So the dinosaur and the bird make a new wish: for life to continue because hope holds on with a friend by your side.
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The Haunted Halloween Party
by Gail Herman
It's Halloween in Coolsville and Scooby and Shaggy are off to meet the gang at a groovy costume party! But when Scooby and Shaggy show up at the party, it's YIKES! in a haunted house!
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Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2
by Jeff Kinney
In this second book of Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories, you'll encounter monstrous insects, the Grim Reaper as a boy, and a lost pinkie that's searching for its owner. But reader beware--while these stories are sidesplittingly funny, they'll still give you a delightful fright!
See the Wimpy Kid World in a whole new way with the #1 bestselling Awesome Friendly books, told from the perspective of Greg Heffley's best friend, Rowley Jefferson.
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Hooky Volume 1: A Graphic Novel
by Míriam Bonastre Tur
Two twins, one prophecy, and a whole lot of hijinks.
From WEBTOON, the #1 digital comic platform, comes a fantastical story about twin siblings Dani and Dorian who have missed the bus to magic school and scramble to find a mentor to teach them before their parents find out.
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Hooky Volume 2: A Graphic Novel
by Míriam Bonastre Tur
With witches like their parents out for power and blood and non-magical people increasingly threatened by them, Dani and Dorian don't know whose side they're on--or if anyone's on their side. That includes their brother Damien, who disappeared after being crowned King of Witches. But since Monica's father, the king, and her fiance, Prince William disappeared, too, Dani and Dorian know they must set out to find their lost allies. Luckily, they aren't alone.
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She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley created Frankenstein
by Lynn Fulton
On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. As the night wore on, Mary grew more anxious: the next day was the deadline that her friend, the poet Lord Byron, had set for writing the best ghost story ever told.
After much talk of science and the secrets of life, Mary had gone to bed exhausted and frustrated that nothing she could think of was scary enough. But as she drifted off to sleep, she dreamed of a man that was not a man. He was a monster!!
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Esperanza Rising
by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
A great story just in time for National Hispanic Month
(9/15 - 10/15).
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