Savour the Words is the theme of this year’s summer reading program for kids between the ages of five and 11. We have two summer students and a literacy assistant putting together the program for this year, and July 5 is week one with the program ending the week of Aug. 18. You can register in the library from June 16-July 4. Check the library website for details and a link directly to the summer reading club, where participants can get a jump on the suggested reading list and start their reading logs. You can also phone the library for more information and to get your young readers on the list.
The Readers are Leaders program, which is year-round in the library, is looking for adult summer readers to work with primary and elementary students who want to keep up their reading skills over the summer break. Call the library or email crestonreaders@gmail.com if you have some time to spare and would like to help a student.
If you know of a student who would benefit from reading help over the summer, contact the library or email crestonreaders@gmail.com. We will set up an hour each week for the young readers to get some practice and at the same time, spend some time in the library getting to know what might be available to them.
The door from the library to the garden is now open and all we need is weather conducive to reading outdoors. Last week, a staff member managed to time lunch perfectly between rain showers and tried out the picnic table quite successfully. A huge thank you goes to Fred; he has been keeping the garden weed free and growing with some fine additions from his nursery.
The library has been given three books by local authors, all nominees for the One Book One Kootenay program initiated by the Kootenay Library Federation. Catalogued and on display and available to patrons are Far From Botany Bay, historical fiction by Rossland’s Rosa Jordan, Living in the Shadow of Fisher Peak, also a work of historical fiction by Cranbrook’s Keith Powell, and Eileen Delehanty Pearke’s The Glass Seed. Show your support of local writers by going to www.obok.ca and registering. You will also find information on the writers and on the past One Book One Kootenay.
Ann Day is the chief librarian at the Creston and District Public Library.