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Chatham Public Library
Every Hero Has a Story 
 

 

     
Reading doesn't need to fizzle during the summer months. Studies show that any reading that young people do, including being read to, has great and lasting impact on their literacy levels and lifelong love of reading. When children read over the summer, they return to school in the fall with active minds, ready to learn.
 
Every Hero Has a Story, the 2015 Summer Reading Program at Chatham Public Library, is open to young people, preschool through young adult. Registration for the Summer Reading Program begins on Monday, June 22, and runs through Wednesday, August 19. Everyone who registers for the Reading Program receives a reading log to keep track of books read or listened to. Bring the log to the library to update the staff on your progress and earn incentives that will be awarded at the end of the summer.

Check out the library's website for a full slate of hero themed programs and events this summer. Learn more about heroes with local author Nancy Castaldo on June 30 with "Sniffer Dogs: How Dogs (and their noses) Save the World." Local cartoonist Barbara Slate teaches tweens & teens "You Can Do a Graphic Novel" in a twice-weekly class beginning June 29. Make a Patriotic T-Shirt on July 2 to wear in honor of our country's heroes. Children in grades 1-2 can create their own Collage Puppets on July 8; and children in grades 3-6 can create Shadow Puppets on July 14 with The Art School of Columbia County. Local author Chloe Caldwell will lead a five-day Creative Writing Workshop for tweens & teens the week of July 20. Artist Ulrike Grannis is back for the Book Binding & Marbled Paper Painting seminar on July 29 & 30. A special guest from the Museum of Firefighting will visit story time for grades K--3 on August 10. Registration is required for all programs, so stop by, pick up a schedule and sign up.
And don't miss these exciting performances for all ages: The Vermont Puppetree will present an imaginative retelling of The Ugly Duckling on July 16. Combining storytelling with science experiments, the Science Tellers bring their theatrical learning experience to the library on August 6. To celebrate the conclusion of the Summer Reading Program, The Storycrafters will present Stout Hearted Stories: Tales and Songs for the Hero in Everyone on August 19 - refreshments will be served and reading prizes distributed. (Don't forget to register for these programs, too!)
 
The Chatham Public Library's Summer Reading Program is made possible with donations from the Friends of the Chatham Public Library, and with public funds from the Decentralization Program of the NYS Council on the Arts, administered in Columbia County by the Greene County Council on the Arts through the Community Arts Grants Fund.
The Chatham Public Library is seeking new program ideas from our community. If you have suggestions for new workshops or events, please send them to the programming committee We are especially interested in receiving suggestions from those who are also willing to organize and/or facilitate a new program, but all ideas are welcome.
 




This newsletter is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Chatham Public Library