June 9, 2009: @ the library
Summer, summer, summer has come to the Radford Public Library with the end of school and the start of Summer Reading Program, our blowout program of the year. You should be reading all year, your kids should be reading all year, but everyone should especially be reading in the summer time. Summer, with those long, lazy, less-scheduled days, was made for a good book.
The state theme this year is Be Creative, for the youngest readers, Express Yourself, for teenaged readers, and Master the Art of Reading for grown-ups. It’s a great theme to work with: the library is festooned with art and opportunities for creative expression. The programs offered include art classes, print making, music, puppets, crafts, painting with espresso, reader’s theater, and several sessions for teens titled “Bad movie, free popcorn.” For adults, a program next week will have an Edgar Allan Poe re-enactor and a community book discussion program around the book Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan. It’s a fascinating fictionalized account of the personal life of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Sign up is under way right now for all Summer Reading Program sessions. If you want to get prizes for what you already love to do, if you want to encourage children to keep their reading skills fresh all summer, if you want to be in the audience when Farmer Minor and his pig Daisy roll into town, now is the time to come to the public library. For more information, please call 731-3621. And everyone should check out the fabulous theatrical curtains that will welcome you to the children’s area this summer.