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This week you can celebrate International Thank You Days. Take the time to write, call, fax, or e-mail someone from your past or present who has done something nice for you and say, "Thanks!" Today is Poetry Break Day. Celebrate poetry by announcing a "poetry break" and reading a poem aloud -- at home, at school, in the office, in the grocery story -- anywhere!
Although Thursday is the 25th Anniversary of National Nothing Day, a day when you can just sit without celebrating, observing, or honoring anything, it is also National Work At Home With Your Spouse Day. This day encourages couples to make the most of their skills and their relationship by starting a business together and working for themselves!
Monday is Cut Yourself Some Slack Day. For this day, we should all do unto ourselves as we would have others do unto us. We should give ourselves a break each time we're tempted to berate ourselves for making a mistake!
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
At Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. storytimes, youngsters can
"jump" into reading with big books, feltboards, and other activities. Saturday
morning's 10:00 storytime features raccoon tales.
The New Mexico Book League is conducting a survey of Favorite New Mexico Books. Readers
may vote for their three favorite books about our Land of Enchantment. The books may be
fiction or nonfiction, old or new. The library has ballots and a box for returning
completed ballots at the reference desk.
BOOK TALK
Isidro Gonzalez provides this week's book list. Years from now, we will all be telling tales of the Great Snowstorm of 1997 and how many of us suffered through a three dog night when our power went out or how we were forced to remain snowbound indoors for several days.
We should be thankful, however, that we didn't live through the New York City blizzard of 1888 or the blizzard of 1896 that hit the West. Both of these blizzards created legends that are retold in "Day of the Blizzard," written by Marietta Moskin, and in "The Blizzard of 1896" by E. J. Bird.
If your power went out and you had no heat for a short time, you'll enjoy reading about Cantankerous Ezra in "Five-Dog Night" to learn about suffering through nights which are really cold. Many of us found that we can survive well without television or stereos and, in fact, enjoyed renewing acquaintances with our family members when we were forced to remain indoors. "Time to Relax," by Nancy L. Carlson; "Snowbound Mystery," by Gertrude Chandler; "Birthday Blizzard," by Bonnie Pryer; and "Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library," by Eth Clifford all tell stories which may be similar to yours.
The children's section of the Roswell Public Library has these books and many others set aside on a special cart featuring books about snow and winter!
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
"Maybe the reason children aren't taught good manners is that there aren't enough qualified instructors around."
ROSWELL PUBLIC LIBRARY, JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
| Address: 301 N. Pennsylvania Phone #: 622-7101 Hours: Sunday 2-6 Monday and Tuesday 9-9 Wednesday through Saturday 9-6. |
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