Scare Up a Good Book!

It's time once again to think about summer activities for kids. Some of the best can be found in our Summer Reading Program, Scare Up a Good Book! which will begin on May 24 and end on August 24. We will be visiting the Urbana elementary schools during the last week of May to promote the program with a great auditorium skit. Along with our regular fare this summer, we will have some programs in the "scary" category but they will include a pretty wide range - dinosaurs and dragons, bats and spiders, monster, mysteries and more.

We will also be promoting some great books like the one you see posted here. In "Miss Smith and the Haunted Library," the teacher grabs her incredible Storybook and takes the class down the street to a dark and creaky building nearby - the public library. Virginia Creeper, the librarian, picks up the storybook and reads a little from her favorite scary stories. With a thunder of hooves the Headless Horseman leaps out of the book, followed by Captain Hook, the Wicked Witch of the West, and a host of villianous characters. The kids love it and after a great party with all the characters; Zack, one of the students, finishes each story to "read" them back into the book. At the end, just like at our library, each kid picks out a books to checkout and take home. Barb L.