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Story Time for Toddlers and Preschoolers!

This early preschool story time introduces toddlers and very young preschool aged children to language and books through songs, stories, and finger-plays. There are also very easy crafts for little fingers to practice gluing, coloring, and painting.

Story Time will be held in the Children's Room. We hope to see you there!


Great Stone Face Books
2010-2011 Award Nominees

The new Great Stone Face Award nominees have been selected! Our copies are on the way, so come in and check one out soon. 

The list of nominees is available here or find out more about each title here!

The Children's Librarians of New Hampshire choose the nominees, appropriate for kids from grades 4 through 6, and in April kids vote for their favorite book. 

Check out voting results from last year and past award winners too!


Ladybug Picture Book Award
2010 Nominees

     Have you and your child been reading the same picture book over and over, night after night?  Is one more round of The Three Little Pigs going to make you huff and puff and blow the house down?  Another read through Sleeping Beauty going to send you to sleep for a hundred years?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, it’s time for a trip to the Belmont Public Library to check out the latest nominees for the Ladybug Picture Book Award!

 

     Designed to promote early literacy and recognize the best picture books published in recent years, the Ladybug Picture Book Award is given annually by librarians and children from across the state of New Hampshire.  Early in the year, school and public librarians select ten books with strong child appeal and high artistic quality in both illustrations and supporting text.  In November, children from preschoolers through third-graders vote for the winner. 

     Find out more about the award here.

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All the World
by Liz Garton Scanlon; illustrated by Marla Frazee

All the world is here. It is there. It is everywhere. All the world is right where you are. Now. Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning till night, this book affirms the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky.

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Bad Boys Get Henpecked!
by Margie Palatini ; illustrated by Henry Cole

Those bad wolves from "Bad Boys" are back and hungry for chicken. After learning that Mrs. Hen needs a little help around the pen, the dastardly duo pose as handymen. But they don't count on meeting their match in a pair of naughty chicks.

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Birds
by Kevin Henkes ; illustrated by Laura Dronzek

 Birds come in all sizes, shapes, and colors. Birds are magic. Birds are everywhere. If you listen very carefully you will hear them, no matter where you live. And if you look very closely you will see them, no matter where you are. And if you can't go outside right this minute, you can always read this book!

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Circus Ship
by Chris Van Dusen

With stunning artwork, the illustrator of Kate DiCamillo's Mercy Watson books tells a tale of human-animal connection, with buoyant rhymes and brilliantly caricatured illustrations evoking the early 19th century.

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Creaky Old House: a Topsy-Turvy Tale of a Real Fixer-Upper 
by Linda Ashman ; illustrated by Michael Chesworth

For want of a screw, the doorknob was lost; for want of a knob, the door was lost; and, from there, comic chaos builds in a series of hilarious steps! Linda Ashman serves up a heaping helping of humorous fun as one big, happy family bands together to handle a series of household calamities—and save their beloved home. Narrated in catchy, beguiling verse, and featuring panoramic art that captures fun-filled action all around the house, this is the perfect story for every child who feels there’s no place like home.

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The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School 
by Laurie Halse Anderson ; illustrated by Ard Hoyt

An acclaimed "New York Times"-bestselling author teams with a vibrant illustrator for a hair-raising story about a little redheaded girl whose unruly hair can help with an uncooperative science lesson.

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Otis 
by Loren Long

The beloved, #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author/illustrator of "The Little Engine That Could" and "Drummer Boy" returns with an unforgettable new story--and character--that celebrates the power of friendship and perseverance. 

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Princess Hyacinth (the Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated)
by Florence Parry Heide ; illustrated by Lane Smith

A bestselling Caldecott Honor artist and legendary author team up! Florence Parry Heide, author of such classics as the Shrinking of Treehorn, and Lane Smith, recipient of a slew of awards, have created an unforgettable princess sure to charm and delight young readers. Princess Hyacinth has a problem: she floats. And so the king and queen have pebbles sewn into the tops of her socks, and force her to wear a crown encrusted with the heaviest jewels in the kingdom to keep her earthbound. But one day, Hyacinth comes across a balloon man and decides to take off all her princess clothes, grab a balloon, and float free. Hooray! Alas, when the balloon man lets go of the string . . . off she goes. Luckily, there is a kite and a boy named Boy to save her.

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Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep!
by Maureen Wright ; illustrated by Will Hillenbrand

Big Bear comically misunderstands Old Man Winters message to hibernate.

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Under the Snow 
by Melissa Stewart ; illustrated by Constance R. Bergum

When snow falls, we love to sled and skate and have snowball fights. But at the end of the day, we go home where it is warm and safe. What about all those animals out there in the forests and fields? What do they do when snow blankets the ground? Award-winning science writer Melissa Stewart offers a lyrical tour of a variety of habitats, providing young readers with vivid glimpses of animals as they live out the winter beneath the snow and ice. Constance R. Bergum’s glowing watercolors perfectly capture the wonder and magic that can happen under the snow.

All Ladybug Picture Books are available in the Children's Room!


Middle School Accelerated Reading List

Click here to link to the Belmont Middle School's Accelerated Reading List, where you can search for books by point level, title, and author. 

Then click here to search for it in the Library's online catalogue.  Happy Reading!


Reading Road Trip, USA Photos
Summer Reading Program 2007

 

Click here to see photos from last year's Summer Reading Program: Reading Road Trip, USA!

 


Treasure Reading Photos
Summer Reading Program 2006
Click here to see photos from last year's Summer Reading Program: Treasure Reading.

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