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StoryWalk Summer 2021
StoryWalk Summer 2021
We will be hosting StoryWalks all summer long. Check back here to see where you can find a StoryWalk close to you! Look for the secret code and complete a Summer Reading Challenge activity. What is a StoryWalk? A picture book on sign boards, with actions between each page. Reading, active living, art, and outdoors all in one place! Saturday, July 24: Hantsport Monday, July 26: Windsor- Kempt Quarry & Irishman's Road Tuesday, July 27: Windsor- Tregothic Trail Tuesday, August 3: Oaklawn Farm Zoo Wednesday, August 19: Kentville Thursday, August 19: Kentville
Middleton - Rosa M. Harvey Middleton & Area Library
Which Food Am I? Search and Find
Middleton - Rosa M. Harvey Middleton & Area Library
Which Food Am I? Search and Find
Repeats every week every Tuesday and every Wednesday and every Thursday and every Friday and every Saturday until Sun Aug 01 2021. July 27th (Tue), July 28th (Wed), July 29th (Thu), July 30th (Fri), July 31st (Sat)10:00am, 10:00am, 10:00am, 10:00am, 10:00am
The Middleton library has all sorts of fruits and veggies hiding in their stacks and on top of shelves this week. Can you help us find them all? Visit the branch to read all the clues that will lead you to the missing food!Open to 4+. Registration is not required.
Oaklawn Farm Zoo
Zoo Day
Oaklawn Farm Zoo
Zoo Day
August 3rd (Tue)10:00am to 4:00pm
We're going to the Zoo! We've partnered with our friends at Oaklawn Farm Zoo once again to offer you a free day at the zoo! Ages 18 & under get in free with their AVRL library card. We will have some activities, and follow all NS Health guidelines. Please read the Zoo's "What To Expect" here. Look for Storytime at 11 AM and 1 PM Other fun activities, like a Scavenger Hunt and StoryWalk. See you at the ZOO!
Wolfville Memorial Library
Outdoor Butterfly Storytime
Wolfville Memorial Library
Outdoor Butterfly Storytime
August 5th (Thu)10:30am to 11:30am
We will have storytime outdoors. Find us under the tent for butterfly stories and activities. Find your spot by a pinwheel. Social distancing will be expected. We'll also have a quick butterfly craft you can make! Registration is required. Ages 3+
DIY Scratch Art
DIY Scratch Art
Each week during the Summer Reading Challenge we are offering a new Take & Make. Kits are available at your local library while supplies last. Stop in and pick up a kit! This week, we are making DIY Scratch Art for ages 7+. Kit includes: 3–4 oil pastels, plain cardstock, toothpicks, a paintbrush, and black paint. Other supplies needed: a table covering. Instructions are included, but here's a video that shows you how to do it. Here are some art books you might enjoy: How to draw a bunny and other cute creatures with simple shapes in five steps / by Lulu Mayo Anonymouse / by Vikki VanSickleOutside art / by Madeline Kloepper Creating art together / by Robin JohnsonDrawing on walls : a story of Keith Haring / by Matthew BurgessWhen Emily was small / by Lauren SoloyThe five parts of art / by Robin JohnsonOut of this world : the surreal art of Leonora Carrington / by Michelle Markel
Today @ The Library
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Activities are all-ages unless otherwise noted: Teens Kids
New Children's Fiction Books
Children Fiction Books
Mel fell
charming and innovative tale about a plucky little bird, from the award-winning author-illustrator of Fox the Tiger. Readers will delight in turning...
Children Fiction Books
Cat problems
What could a pampered house cat possibly have to complain about? This latest collaboration from picture book superstars--and cat devotees--Lane Smith...
Children Fiction Books
When grandfather flew
In this moving evocation of love and loss by a Newbery Medalist, a grieving boy remembers his grandfather by thinking of the hobby they shared. Milo'...
Children Fiction Books
Fifth-grade zombies
This is Slappy's world -- You only scream in it!When city kid Todd Coates moves from Queens, New York, to live on a Wisconsin farm for a year, he's...
Children Fiction Books
Jorvik calling
Step into the universe of the massively popular adventure game Star Stable, and follow four friends who discover their magic powers and learn that...
Children Fiction Books
Love like sky
G-baby and her younger sister, Peaches, are still getting used to their 'blended-up' family. They live with Mama and Frank out in the suburbs, and...
New Children's Non Fiction Books
Children Non-Fiction Books
Oh, ick! : 114 science experiments guaranteed to gross you out!
From the bestselling author of Oh, Yuck! and Oh, Yikes! , with over 1.25 million copies in print, here is an A-Z compendium of hands-on grossness....
Children Non-Fiction Books
Outdoor math : fun activities for every season
In this innovative book, Emma Adb+ge encourages children to get outside, where they can have fun interacting with the natural world while learning...
Children Non-Fiction Books
Ada's violin : the story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
From award-winning author Susan Hood and illustrator Sally Wern Comport comes the extraordinary true tale of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, an...
Children Non-Fiction Books
When green becomes tomatoes
december 29and i woke to a morningthat was quiet and whitethe first snow(just like magic) came on tip toesovernight Flowers blooming in sheets of...
Children Non-Fiction Books
Big blue forever : the story of Canada's largest blue whale skeleton
Big Blue Forever is inspired by the true story of how a blue whale skeleton found on a remote beach in PEI was shipped cross country and reassembled...
Children Non-Fiction Books
The hidden life of a toad
In jaw-dropping photos, Doug Wechsler captures the life cycle of the American toad from egg to tadpole to adult. To get these images, Wechsler sat in...
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