Berne Library Notes for Tuesday, October 18, 2022
— Photo from Kathy Stempel
Decorative books for potions and spells will be made at the Berne Library during an adult craft night on Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m. Please sign up.
Library programs available to the community are offered for free. You are invited to take advantage of the next one in the queue, which JoAnne, the presenter and craft enthusiast, calls a “Spell Book Craft Class for adults.” Or, you could say it is a “Spellbinding Craft,” which has an intriguing ring to it.
As JoAnne says, “This program is geared for adults to have some fun!”
Please sign up and give this decorative Spell Book craft a go on Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m.
If you happen to have an extra glue gun, bring it along. Otherwise, nothing is required of participants but themselves. You will be crafting an old book into a display piece for your home or for a friend.
Call in your reservation at 518-872-1246 or stop by and get your name on the sign-up sheet. The activity has a 10-person capacity.
Friendly Ghouls
Ooooh oh. It’s Kathy’s Friendly Ghouls Story Time flying at you on Oct. 25 at 10:30 a.m. Get in the Halloween spirit and bring your young ones to explore the Friendly Ghouls waiting in the wings.
Financial Workshop
From 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 25, it’s the third week of six for the free Zoom Financial Workshop. This week’s topic: Proper Protection. Zoom in at the library or at home. You can register on the library’s website. Look for the Financial Literacy post and click on the link at RSVP: tinyurl.com/TinaWorkshopRSVP.
“This Book Is
Not For You!”
“This Book Is Not For You!” the 2022 book by Shannon Hale and illustrated by Tracy Subisak. A view:
The regular bookmobile librarian is out and an older gentleman librarian who keeps swooshing his bushy eyebrows is on duty.
All Stanley wants to do is take out a book he’s had his heart set on. But, bushy eyebrow librarian thinks Stanley needs to rethink his choices because the book he wanted was about a girl. And boys shouldn’t be reading books with girls as the main character. Just like cats should only read cat books, robots should only read books about robots and so on.
“What do you like, young man?” asked the bushy eyebrow librarian.
Stanley finally settles on “The Squelching Peach,” which bushy eyebrow librarian seemed to think was OK for him to read.
As things move along, book trading takes place among the many different characters — the biggest character being a giant purple dinosaur with green spots who wanted to read a book about ponies.
The story delights in the many possibilities of reading outside our preferred storyline. Plus, the added bonus of the bookmobile's treasure of adventures ready to dispense. Check it out next time you stop by the library.
See you on the trail!