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March
has arrived, bringing American Red Cross Month, Ethics Awareness Month,
Humorists Are Artists Month, International Mirth Month, Music In Our Schools
Month, National Craft Month, National Frozen Food Month, National Nutrition
Month, National On-Hold Month, National Umbrella Month, National Women’s
History Month, Youth Art Month, and Optimism Month!
This
week you can celebrate National Write a Letter of Appreciation Week by sending a
letter expressing your gratitude to others, or you can participate in Return the
Borrowed Books Week, Autograph Collecting Week, or National Professional Pet
Sitters Week, National School Breakfast Week, and Newspaper in Education Week.
If you tend to put things off until tomorrow, you’ll want to enjoy
National Procrastination Week!
WHAT'S
HAPPENING?
At Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 story times, participants will learn
about nutrition in stories and crafts, with a story featuring “Spikes”
Marionettes Puppetry at the morning story time.
Saturday morning’s 10:00 story time celebrates Women’s History Month
with stories and crafts.
BOOK
TALK
Children’s
Librarian Mary Stickford provides this week's book information. With
the proliferation of crime shows on television, children’s interest in
mysteries and detection can be directed to relevant books, such as “Psychic
Sleuths: How Psychic Information Is Used to Solve Crimes.”
Author Anita Larsen shows how information gathered by psychics can
provide clues to puzzles that leave the police baffled. Looking at real-life
cases, she examines the different ways psychics approach unraveling mysteries,
from channeling the spirits of the dead to viewing photos of a crime scene, from
seeing events through the eyes of the criminal to picking up psychic trails left
behind.
In
“Fingerprints and Talking Bones; How Real-life Crimes Are Solved,” author
Charlotte Jones draws together numerous accounts that illustrate the
fascinatingly diverse and sometimes surprising paths to truth.
Bugs, dirt, bite marks, and even pets are all crime-solving clues.
In
“Crime Lab 101; Experimenting With Crime Detection,” author Robert Gardner
offers cases so you can examine fingerprints, lip prints, and voice patterns;
hair and clothing; secret codes, handwriting samples, and other types of clues
that criminals leave behind. You can perform a number of scientific experiments
to learn more about the theories behind forensic science.
The
best of the lot is “The Bone Detectives; How Forensic Anthropologists Solve
Crimes And Uncover Mysteries Of The Dead.”
It has many color photographs of bones and reconstructions and related
material to lead you through an actual missing person’s case that resulted in
finding a murderer.
Just
for fun, try the “Great Book of Whodunit Puzzles; Mini-Mysteries For You To
Solve.” It offers a one or two page story filled with clues you must decipher
to solve a puzzle. And there is not
a skull or bone in sight, which may be a relief after all the preceding mayhem.
DID
YOU KNOW?
According to Harvard University’s Center for the Study of Values in
Public Life, the cost of raising a child from birth to age 18 is now more than
$160,000, not including college tuition!
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: "The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.” –Helen Hayes (at 73)
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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