Halloween is over and the gloves are off—the holidays are coming! Get your candy-decorating skills sharpened because it’s time for our annual #GingerbreadMadness contest. Bragging rights and prizes will be awarded for the most creative gingerbread in four categories.
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It’s October and that means it’s officially spooky season. Time for haunted houses, jack-o-lanterns, costumes, and lots of candy. We’re celebrating the season with events for all ages that are spooky but not too scary. Which one is for you? Keep reading to find out.
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I’ve read about half of John Green’s fictional books and enjoyed each one. But each time I tried to read The Anthropocene Revealed, I returned it, unread, even though I knew I really wanted to read it. When Hiram College announced it as the title for their community read this fall, I finally applied some self-discipline and made myself begin reading. Now, I’m about halfway through and enjoying every minute.
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Things are moving and shaking at the library. This week, it’s mostly adult-level fiction books. Yesterday, staff finished moving the new fiction books to the second floor, reuniting them with their older siblings. Finally, the fiction family is together! Very soon, the non-fiction family will be in one home, too. We’re not really moving materials around to reunite book families; we have a plan. Want to hear know what’s happening?
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Get your pirate hat, find your sea legs and join us at our annual kickoff to summer, next Friday, June 6th, 5pm to 8pm. We’ll transform Ravenna City Park into a Treasure Island getaway for the evening with live music, games, activities, a photo booth, food trucks, a pirate costume contest and much more.
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Our Community Baby Shower is this Saturday and literally everyone is invited. In a few weeks, you’re also invited to our Fired Up For Safety extravaganza with firetrucks, firefighters, hands-on demonstrations, and Marshall from Paw Patrol. These events are a big deal and lots of work for us. So why do we organize them?
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Life as a recluse isn’t for everyone. This is the lesson learned in Julie Hatcher’s latest novel, Not Quite By the Book. It’s a sharp yet sweet book about how sometimes you need to abandon the quest for love to find your true passion. Want to meet the author? She’s coming to the library this Saturday!
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It’s a challenge so simple, it’s a breath of fresh, spring air. Complete a prompt from our activity list or read for an hour. Do either one five times. Fill out your tickets (up to five per person) and turn them in for the grand prize drawing. What could you win? Keep reading to find out.
Reed Memorial Library’s Petals and Pages challenge runs March 1 to 31st and is for all ages and all readers. You’ll get a matching magnet when you pick up your ticket board (so that you can hang it on the fridge). Want to get started right now? You can download and print your ticket board, too.
Like we said, it’s super simple: any combination of prompts from our activity list or reading for an hour. The activity list has all sorts of fun choices like reading in the sun, reading a book about butterflies or spring sports, and even visiting the story trail in Dix Park. There’s an activity for every age and reading level so the whole family can participate.
Fill out your tickets and bring them in for an entry. Do it one at a time or all five at once, just turn at least one in by March 31. One lucky ticket will be drawn for the grand prize.
Here’s what you will win:
One month to read and/or complete fun activities, one grand prize to win. Pick up a ticket board in the library or download and print your own and get started!
Simply put, a library challenge is a fun way to ensure that you, your kids, your family, are reading and learning. A challenge can be set up like a game, a BINGO board, a checklist, a tracker, or some other fun way to record reading and activities. Prizes and rewards are given for completing challenges and sometimes along the way. Library challenges grew out of a need to keep younger readers on track during school breaks by measuring and rewarding reading. We think that rewarding reading is appropriate for everyone and all seasons.
This week we had a book returned to us from an Illinois library. They got it from a neighboring library in Idaho, who found it in their book return. As much as we’d love to know how and why our book from Ravenna, Ohio, ended up in Idaho and Illinois, we’ll probably never find out. But its arrival sparked a conversation about things that end up at our library that don’t belong to us.
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It’s that time of year again. Thanksgiving is coming and the very next day we kick off the holiday season during Ravenna’s Midnight Madness event. It’s an evening you don’t want to miss.
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Sincerely, Cornelius 