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Happy Independence Day!
All of us here at Cornerstone Living Library wish everyone a Happy Independence Day! We hope you all have a fun and safe holiday.
The library is closed until July 16th, due to our director traveling. We will be open again July 19th!
Clive’s Corner: More Summer Adventures
Enjoy these monthly recommendations from our library mascot, Clive
I hope you’re having a great summer! I have more adventures for you – these are all reprints of classic books that still being enjoyed today. Happy reading!
Miss Jaster’s Garden by N.M. Bodecker – Hedgie the hedgehog lives in a little corner of Miss Jaster’s garden. One morning nearsighted Miss Jaster mistakenly plants some seeds on Hedgie, who is asleep in the flowerbed. Before Hedgie knows it, flowers have sprouted among the quills on his back! It’s the happiest day of Hedgie’s life, his feet begin doing little dance steps and before you know it Hedgie dances out beyond the gate. When Miss Jaster thinks she sees her flowers walking by themselves, she calls the constable. Will Hedgie ever be able to return to the garden he loves?
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka by Maj Lindman – Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka are blond triplets who live in Sweden. Originally written in the 1930s, we have been collecting the reprints of these sweet lighthearted stories filled with colorful illustrations. Check them out!
The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek by Evelyn Sibley Lampman – Suppose you were hunting around in the desert for a fossil and instead you found a real (and very large) dinosaur, genus Stegosaurus. Joan and Joey Brown did! Nobody believed they had found one, which was just as well because George (as they called him) was very shy.
He was a loyal friend, doing his best to help the twins but his walnut-sized brain often made him more hindrance than help. This story is told so convincingly that you’ll be looking for dinosaurs around every mesa. And who knows? Maybe you’ll find one!
The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club by Bertrand R Brinley – Just another quiet day in Mammoth Falls. Or is it? Have flying saucers really been sighted? How about those rumblings in the ground during the wee hours of the morning… and a midget submarine hidden in a secret cavern? With evidence like this, our seven young geniuses can’t be far behind. And they’re not! The town of Mammoth Falls will never be the same again!
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit – When their father is taken away by strangers, three children must move with their mother to a country cottage near a railway. As they adapt to their new life, the railway becomes their playground. The people they befriend and the adventures they have greatly change their lives. This charming story was originally written in 1905 by British author Edith Nesbit, and this particular edition is fully illustrated and makes an excellent family read aloud!
Announcing our Drama special program!
We have secured our final Summer Special Program! On August 2nd, we will have a fun day of drama/improv. More details will follow in the next few weeks. Be sure to mark your calendars of the dates of our last three programs of the summer – they all start at 11am!