Valentine's Day Party for Library Lovers Today at 5:30pm!

HaPpY VaLeNtInE's DaY! 

Join us for a special Valentine's Day Storytime and Celebration today at Nancy Kay Holmes Branch Library.  Stories, games, crafts, treats and more are planned!

 

Festivities begin at 5:30pm and all ages are invited!  To register for this event, please call 207-0764 or email KWalsh@albright.org to say you'll be here!

xoxo,  Miss Katie  

Amelia Bedelia's 50th Birthday Storytime & Celebration with CHARACTER APPEARANCE Today at 5:30pm!

Join us at 5:30 this evening as Amelia Bedelia herself joins us at Nancy Kay Holmes Branch Library to share in her 50th Birthday Celebration!  

Enjoy some of your favorite Amelia Bedelia tales read by everyone's favorite literal-minded maid, and stay for birthday cake! 

Don't forget your camera!  All ages are invited.  Advance Registration is required; please call the library at 207-0764 or email KWalsh@albright.org to say you'll be here!  

Show & Tell Storytime Today at 5:30pm!

Hello, Friends! 

Warm up with cookies & cocoa,

good books and good friends at this evening's

Show & Tell Storytime! 

Don't forget to bring something to "show and tell" with friends! 

Advance Registration is required;

please call the library at 207-0764 to say

you and your special Show & Tell surprise will be here! 

Monday Morning Storytime: Our Favorite Jamie Lee Curtis Storybooks at 11:30am!

Join us for a special storytime today as we read several books by one of my favorite authors,

Jamie Lee Curtis. 

Stories, songs, crafts, cupcakes and brownies to celebrate the author's recent birthday! 

All ages invited.  Pre-registration isn't required - just stop in!  See you soon!

xoxo, 

Miss Katie

  

Author Book Signing with Margo L. Azzarelli, Images of America: Green Ridge

On Monday, November 19th at 11:30 am,

author Margo L. Azzarelli will visit

the Nancy Kay Holmes Branch Library,

Green Ridge Street at Wyoming Ave

for a book signing of her book

Images of America: Green Ridge.

Margo L. Azzarelli is a living historian and writer/researcher for Azzarelli Family Historical Productions.  She serves as editor for the Taylor Historical Society and volunteers her time to the Lackawanna Historical Society, which provided many of the photographs that enhance the historical beauty shown in her book,
Images of America: Green Ridge. 

Copies of Images of America: Green Ridge will be available for purchase during this time.

CANCELLED: Halloween Party Scheduled for Tuesday, October 30th at 5:30pm

 

The Nancy Kay Holmes Branch Library's Halloween Party, scheduled for today at 5:30pm, has been CANCELLED due to today's weather conditions.

 

Our library is OPEN today 11:00 am - 7:00 pm.

Painted Pumpkin Contest Winner Announced!

Announcing the Winner of  the Nancy Kay Holmes 2012 Painted Pumpkin Contest!

Before I share a photo of the winning pumpkin, I want to commend our other participants and the INCREDIBLY IMAGINATIVE painted pumpkins that were submitted:

It was a very difficult voting process, as ALL of the painted pumpkins were terrific!!!

This year's First Place Prize and a $15 gift certificate to Cal-Ideas in Dunmore is:

Titled: "Cocoa Bunnicula"  (Ben used real cocoa in painting this pumpkin!  It smells so yummy!)

Based on the book: Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe

Submitted by: Ben G., age 8

 Congratulations, Ben!

Thank you to all of our contest participants (and parents!) for your contributions!  I'm already looking forward to next year's Second Annual Painted Pumpkin Contest!

xoxo,

Miss Katie

IRON CHEF at Tween Team, Today at 5:00pm!

Join us today for

IRON CHEF: Library Tween Edition!

Ages 9-12 are invited.  Bring a friend or make new friends here at the library! 

5:00pm upstairs in the YA Room.

 

PreRegistration is required;

call 207-0764 to say you accept the

Iron Chef Challenge! 

See you soon!

xoxo, Miss Katie 

Minute to Win It! Tween Team Today at 5pm

Minute to Win It!

Today, Wednesday October 17th at 5pm. 

Tween Team: anyone age 9-12. 

Pre-Registration is required;

call 207-0764 to accept this challenge!

It's a GROUCHY Day at Nancy Kay (Holmes)!

Hello, Friends ~

Don't be fooled by the following photos of happy children at this morning's storytime...  Today is National Grouch Day!  Despite my best efforts to turn them into grouchy kids, they remain my ever-sweet-n-smiley friends:

Hope you have a Grouchy, er, Happy Monday too!

xoxo,
Miss Katie

 

Family Place Tomorrow Morning, Wednesday at 10:00am

Hello! 

Family Place Workshop resumes tomorrow morning, Wednesday, October 10th, at 10:00am. 

Join children ages birth thru three years (older siblings are welcome too!) and their parents/caregivers for stories, songs, a craft, free-play, socialization, and more!  We will be reading stories about Fall and Leaves, and we'll make "leaf glitter" autumn trees very much like this:

Pre-registration is required; please call the library at  207-0764 to say you'll be here!

Look Out: BOOK-SPINE POETS are on the Loose at Nancy Kay Holmes!

Hello!

Our Tween Team is obsessed with creating Book Spine Poetry at the library!  Their challenge: find 4 or 5 random books that create a poem when the books' spines are aligned, like this:

nerds

caught between the pages

unraveling

candy

 and this one:

late, late at night

the giver

speak

the secrets of peaches

 and this:

Johnny Tremain

hush, hush

wanted!

little brother

Can I tell you how amazed I am with our team's poetry?!  And, how impressed I am with their excitement over this challenge?!  I suggested it - once - as a quick activity, but they're having so much fun with it (more than I had expected!) and they ask to do it again each week!

If YOU would like to try your luck at discovering and creating Book Spine Poetry with us, our next Tween Team meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday, October 10th, 5:00-6:00pm.  Games, crafts, snacks, and more!  Kids age 9-12 are invited!  Bring a friend!  Pre-registration is required; call the library at 207-0764 to say you'll be here!

See you soon,

Miss Katie

 

Teddy Bear Sleepover and Pajama Storytime at the Library, Today at 5:30pm!

Hello, Friends!
It's here! The day of our next big
TEDDY BEAR SLEEPOVER AT THE LIBRARY!

Wear your pajamas, and bring your teddy bear or other stuffed animal to the library today at 5:30pm for a very special Pajama Storytime about NOCTURNAL ANIMALS. When it's time to leave, your bear, stuffed animal, or doll is welcome to stay behind and spend the night at a toys-only sleepover event at the library! No people allowed! Oh dear, I wonder what mischief they'll create?! You can pick up your bear tomorrow, or any day this week or next week!

PreRegistration is required, so please call the library at 207-0764 to say you (and your teddy bear) will be here! See you soon!

xoxo,
Miss Katie & Corduroy