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The July Fourth Parade will be coming up soon.We are looking for float ideas for the library. This year's summer reading theme is "Summertime and the reading is easy" (More to follow on summer events) Anyone who wants to help build a float and join Milton Free Public Library in the parade can drop in with ideas and a building time will be announced soon.
Let's celebrate the beginning of summer:Summer starts this month. Let's celebrate the change of the seasons with the pizza/decorating party . Saturday June 27, 2009 we'll dress out the walls and the windows, eat , drink, and enjoy the summer days to come.
Share Your WordsThe Milton Free Public Library is looking for words, specifically adjectives that describe the person using the word as much as whatever/ whomever is being described. For instance, if a person is called "pedantic", that person is making a great show of their knowledge , but the person calling someone such would also be a show-off of their education. Like-wise , if something is referred to as "wack-a- doodle" (something off-beat or loopy) wouldn't the speaker be considered "wack-a-doodle" for using that particular word? One librarian also pointed out that a person needed to be "sentient" (have some awareness) in order to call something "sentient". Can you think of any other words?
Food DriveFeeling guilty about not returning your books on time? The Milton Free Public Library is accepting nonperishable food in lieu of cash for late fees. All donations will go to the local Strafford County Community Action office. Enjoy your books (or movies) guilt-free and help your neighbors too.
Milton Elementary School Star Student:May's Star Student is Keegan Collins-Jett. Find out more about Keegan and what makes a Star Student here.
Become a fan of the Milton Free Public Library on Facebook.We are now part of the Facebook community. In addition to our website (Miltonfreepubliclibrary.org) we will keep you up to date with what is happening at the library. Check out pictures of the library ( and soon pictures of what happens at various events) . We look forward to seeing our friends there
New Doors InstalledThe Little Red School House is getting a facelift: (After hanging around Milton Mills and weathering winter for 100 years, you'd need a little sprucing too!) The Milton Free Public Library has beautiful new doors. During the next couple of years , you'll notice new windows . The steeple on the top of our tower is getting buffed and polished too. We're looking pretty spiffy inside too! Come in and take a look!
Graphic Novels and AnimeThe collection of Graphic Novels and Anime has increased this past year at the Milton Free Public Library. Plenty of the books we have received in this genre is geared toward teens. MFPL Recently received the first of the "Death Note" series. We also have "Avi's "City of Light,City of Dark". John Ridley offers a look at 1961 Super Heros in "The American Way" There are many other such books for teens. Teens aren't the only audience for Anime. For pre-readers and young readers MFPL has "Owly-Just a Little Blue" and Will Eisner's "The Last Knight" which is a nice introduction to Cervante's Don Quixote. (We don't have to tell the children that the book is a story taken from a "classic"). Graphic novels and Anime offer a whole new world for adults too. Larry Gonick writes an entire series which give Cartoon Guides to History (of the US and the World) , Science , and Math. "Sandwalk Adventures" is a tale about Charles Darwin and his eyebrow mites and the conversations they would have about Darwin's adventures, fossils, and natural selection. Art Spiegelman's "Maus" won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize tells the story of a son dealing with his relationship with his aging father and also a story about a father's history of being a Jewish man surviving Nazi Germany
Books have arrived from the LIBRI Foundation GrantThe Libri Foundation gave MFPL over $1500 in children’s books (that’s 65 books!) All of the donated books are brand new and award winning stories for ages 0-12 (or so…. The librarians have been reading them too) Come in and check out a book!
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