Spring 2015

Volume 9, Issue 1

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Directors Notes
This spring we are lucky to be having three great author/
illustrator events for children at the library. Inspire your
children to read and write great stories of their own!
There will be books available for purchase at all 3 events.
Signed books make great presents.
On Tuesday, March 24th at 6:30 pm illustrator Lee Harper will
be at the library. This program is best for school aged
children or anyone who loves to draw. Lee will talk about
everything thats involved in writing and illustrating a picture
book. Then Lee will draw a few of his charactersbooks. After
that comes the part the kids love best... DRAWING!! Each
child creates their own version of one of his characters as he
leads them step-by-step.
Local author, Daniele Carnesalli, will do a special storytime
at the library on Tuesday, April 7th at 6:30 pm for families.
This storytime will feature her two new books The Legend of
Falling Rock: A Fathers Folktale and You Are Mine. Come
hear Daniele read her stories and make a craft. Daniele will
be selling and signing copies of her books.
On Thursday, May 14th at 6:30 pm author Mara Rockli will
visit the library. This program is great for students in grades
2 - 5. This program is based o of Maras bestselling chapter
book series The Milo and Jazz Mysteries written under the
pen name Lewis Montgomery. Children will learn that
writing a mystery (or anything else!) is just like solving one.
Mara has, also, published several childrens books under her
own name.
~Leslie

St. Marys
Public Library
Library Hours
Monday
10-8
Tuesday
12-8
Wednesday 10-8
Thursday 12-8
Friday
10-5
Saturday 9-4

List of Presenter's Books

Lee Harper:
The Emperors Cool
Clothes
Looking for the Easy Life
Snow! Snow! Snow!
Turkey Claus
Turkey Trouble
Woolbur
Daniele Carnesalli:
The Legend of Falling
Rock: A Fathers Folktale
You Are Mine
Mara Rockliff:
The Milo & Jazz Mysteries
Gingerbread for Liberty
Mesmerized
Chik Chak Shabbat
The Grudge Keeper
Get Real
My Heart Will Not Sit
DownThe Busiest Street in
Town

But we have to pick ONE pet

And pick it out soon.
You know mother told us
To get back by noon!
Soon there will be a new Dr. Seuss books out! What Pet
Should I Get? will be released in July 2015. Theodor Geisels
widow Audrey found the manuscripts and illustrations while
cleaning out his oce.
The publisher said it expects to release two additional books
from the materials that were found. This year also marks 25
years since the publication of the last book of Teds career
Oh, the Places Youll Go!

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and
read with a child."

Dr. Seuss

Read Across America is a nationwide

reading celebration held on
March 2nd -- Dr. Seusss birthday.
The books of Dr Seuss have sold over
222 million copies and have been
translated into 15 languages.
The word 'nerd' rst appeared in one
of Dr. Seuss's books published in
1950; If I Ran the Zoo. The nerd was
not a pale kid with taped-together
glasses, but a small creature from
the land of Ka-Troo.

Harper Lee will be releasing Go Set a Watchman in July of 2015. Originally written in the mid-1950s,
Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee rst submitted to her publishers before To Kill a
Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.
Go Set a Watchman takes place twenty years after To Kill a Mockingbird.
Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch
Scoutstruggles with issues both personal and political, involving
Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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To Kill a Mockingbird was

immediately successful, winning
the Pulitzer Prize.
The plot and characters are
loosely based on the author's
observations of her family and
neighbors, and an event that
occurred near her hometown in
1936, when she was 10 years old.
It has sold more than 30 million
copies and been translated into
more than 40 languages.

Spring Events
Childrens Program
Come to the St. Marys Public Library for a social playgroup time with stories,
songs, crafts and snacks. (Parents and kids ages 5 and under)

Monday 10-11 am & Monday 6:30-7:30 pm

Wednesday 10-11 am
127 Center Street

March 2 & 4

Dr. Seuss READ Across America

Saint Marys, PA 15857

March 9 & 11

Ducks and Song Birds

814-834-6141

March 16 & 18

Green Clover and Leprechauns

March 23 & 25

Baby Farm Animals

March 30 & April 1

Easter stories and Egg Hunt

April 13 & 15

Race Cars with PA ONE BOOK Number One Sam

814-834-9814 (fax)
library@stmaryslibrary.org
www.stmaryslibrary.org/

Summer Reading Program will begin June 8th

My Money (6th - 12th Grade)

Monday, April 20th @ 4 pm

Money Market (PreK - 5th Grace) Monday, April 20th @ 6:30 pm

Illustrator Harper Lee

Tuesday, March 24th @ 6:30

Local Author Daniele Carnesalli

Tuesday, April 7th @ 6:30

Author Mara Rockli

Thursday, May 14th @ 6:30

Adult Programs
Financial Peace University 9 week session (Tuesday, March 10th - May 5th) @ 1pm
(another session will be held in July and August at night).
Knit and Crochet Club

Monday, March 16th @ 6:30 pm

Monday, April 20th @ 6:30 pm
Monday, May 18th @ 6:30 pm

Book Club
Tuesday, March 10th @ 6:30 pm

The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry

Tuesday, April 14th @ 6:30 pm

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Tuesday, May 12th @ 6:30 pm

Minding the Manor by Molly Moran

Diabetes Management Wednesday, April 22nd @ 2 pm & 6 pm

LIFTs Within Your Reach Friday March 13th at 10 am; Wednesday, March 25th @ 1 pm
Friday April 10th at 10 am; Wednesday April 22nd @ 1 pm
Friday May 8th at 10 am; Wednesday May 27th @ 1 pm