Kids met at the Open Craft Buffet to make projects between trips to the train table.  In this photo, two of the young artists sport the highly popular Monkey Hat.  To see more pictures of the Open Craft Buffet.  Click here!

• Adler, David A – Young Cam Jansen and the missing cookie
• Adler, David A – Young Cam Jansen and the ice skate mystery
• Adler, David A – Young Cam Jansen and the lost tooth
• Albee, Sarah – The dragon’s scales
• Asch, Frank – Bear’s bargain

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What was the best book published in the past year? Tell us what you think. Go to our Facebook page and post your choice on our wall for Best Book of 2011.
Or if you prefer, you can email your best Book choice to Leane Ellis at the library: ellis@noblenet.org. We will publish the list on our website in January 2012. Please feel free to include why you think the book qualifies for the Best of 2011.

• Aliki – My visit to the dinosaurs
• Barton, Byron – Airport
• Berenstain, Stan – The bike lesson
• Bonsall, Crosby – Who’s afraid of the dark?
• Brown, Marc Tolon – Spooky riddles
• Carle, Eric – Little cloud

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• Brown, Margaret Wise – Goodnight moon
• Brown, Margaret Wise – Big red barn
• Cauley, Lorinda Bryan – Clap your hands
• Dabcovich, Lydia – Busy beavers
• Fleming, Denise – Time to sleep

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You either love them or hate them — but there is no escaping the Best Books of 2011 lists. Most of these titles do have some things in common — they appear on multiple lists and they are books that force you to slow down and enjoy the author’s ability to put words together in unexpected and intriguing ways. Book Awards and “Best of” lists reflect the particular taste of whoever happens to be judging for that particular award or list, so the discerning reader will bear that in mind while perusing and comparing these ubiquitous and entertaining compilations.
One of the best places to find these lists on the Internet is on the Reader’s Advisory Blog Online compiled by the Readers’ Advisory librarians at Libraries Unlimited. Continue »

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Beattie, Ann. Mrs. Nixon: a novelist imagines a life.
Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern first lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her generation, dismissed Richard Nixon’s wife as “interchangeable with a Martian.” But decades later, she wonders what it must have been like to be
married to such a spectacularly ambitious and catastrophically self-destructive man. Continue »