@ Your Library
April is the last month of school year programming, although we do creep a bit into May. The silent book club will meet on Monday, April 14th at 6:30. Elementary Fun will have its last session on Wednesday, April 30th. Storytime will continue for two more weeks until May 8. Crafters’ Café will continue through May on alternate Tuesdays with the next opportunity to craft together being Tuesday, April 22nd from 11 am – 1 pm.
It’s fun sharing titles that fit the prompts for the 2025 reading challenge. The next reading prompt is to read a book with two or more book pictured on the cover or ‘book’ is in the title. It is easy to find titles that fit this prompt at the library. We have lots of books about books. I bet you aren’t surprised by that. The Children’s Book by A. S. Byatt spans the years from the Victorian Era through World War 1 and centers around a famous children’s book author and the world around her. The Booklover’s Library by Madeline Martin is set in World War 2 and features a widow and her daughter in England during the blitz. Continuing in World War 2 and The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel for a novel based on true events. Or move between Austria in the 1940’s and Australia from the 1980’s to today in The Hidden Book by Kirsty Manning.
Books set in bookshops also qualify and Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop by Emmeline Duncan or Jenny Colgan’s The Bookshop at the Corner followed by The Bookshop on the Shore. Or the brand new The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime by Vicki Delany which is the tenth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery.
Books with books on the cover include The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is described as a love letter to reading. Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence is a series of letters to books the author both loved and hated. The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe is the novelized true story of Dita, the young girl who protected 8 books snuck into Auschwitz by prisoners. The Words Between Us by Erin Bartels features a book store owner hoping she has successfully buried her family’s history.
There are also lots of books about books in the junior library including How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills, Book! Book! Book! By Deborah Bruss and Library Lil by Suzanne Williams for picture books. Elementary students might enjoy Summer Reading is Killing Me by Jon Scieszka, The Wild Book by Juan Villoro for a mysterious library where the books move by themselves, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein or Ahmed Aziz’s Epic Year by Nina Hamza, a book set in Minnesota.
Books about reading include A Year of Reading by Elizabeth Ellington, The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller, The History of the Book by Roderick Cave and The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma.