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The Paper Cranes of Summer

In their welcome goody bags, summer reading kids received origami paper and instructions for folding paper cranes, like in Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. The response has been beyond our wildest dreams--kids bringing in (with much enthusiasm) boxes of cranes, bags of cranes, teeny tiny cranes, and huge cranes.

 

 

Intrepid library staffer Alex Hinners has been hard at work stringing all the cranes and hanging them in the library entrance.  We love the hopeful, bright colors--the work of our terrific Eagle kids--and hope all our library patrons do too.

 

 

Poetry Alive!

 

 

 

 

Poetry boring?  No way!  Join us at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, July 21 for a performance of Poetry Alive!

This nationally traveling poetry performance troupe mesmerizes audience with their high energy.  Their wild and crazy antics have kids barking like dogs, quacking like ducks, and buzzing like bees.  Poetry Alive! shows kids that poems are more than words on a page. This is performance like nothing else!  Never see poetry the same way again.

This is not a couple people standing around reciting limp rhymes. Come and see language come to life!

For more information go to www.wcfls.org and click on the Summer Library Program or call Alice Baker Library at 262-594-2800.