Welcome to Home-Based Business Week, National School Lunch Week, National Wildlife Refuge Week, and National Pet Peeve Week. Today is Be Bald and Be Free Day, a day for those who are bald to go "shiny" and be proud! Wednesday is National Grouch Day and National Train Your Brain Day. You can honor a grouch (not be one) and then give your brain a boost by learning new thinking techniques.

Thursday has several activities packed into one day. It’s Dictionary Day (the birthday of Noah Webster), which encourages every person to acquire at least one dictionary and use it regularly. Thursday is also National Boss Day and National Dessert Day. You can honor your stressed out bosses by bringing them fanciful desserts. (Remember, stressed is desserts spelled backwards.)

Finally, Sunday is Evaluate Your Life Day (to see if you’re really headed where you want to go), National Shut-In Visitation Day, and National Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day.

WHAT’S HAPPENING?

Bats are the focus of Wednesday’s 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. storytimes, which include a puppet story. Pizza Month is recognized at Saturday morning’s 10:00 storytime.

BOOK TALK

Librarian Mary Beth Wright provides this week’s book reviews. The three little words, "You are pregnant," are life changing. Although pregnancy is a distinctive journey for each woman, most women share certain emotional and physical concerns. Baby experts, Drs. Bill and Martha Sears, join Dr. Linda Hughey Holt, one of America’s leading obstetricians, to provide you with a very informative book on pregnancy. "The Pregnancy Book: A Month-by-Month Guide" has an easy-to-read format and presents information in understandable language.

This comprehensive guidebook provides fitting questions, responsible answers, helpful hints, and true stories from pregnant women who have had similar experiences. The book has the usual diagrams, glossary, and index, but the authors have also included a diary for comments and a place for monthly photographs. Whether you are a first time mother or have previous experience, this book can change pregnancy and childbirth from nine worrisome months of complaints to a time of personal growth.

The Children’s area also contains a number of resources to explain the miracle of birth, such as "How Was I Born?" by Lennart Nilsson and Lena Katarina Swanberg. This wonderful story is told by a brother and sister awaiting the birth of their new brother. Both of these excellent books and other selections on a variety of subjects dealing with all aspects of pregnancy – from planning baby showers to naming your child to parenting skills – can be found at your Roswell Public Library.

DID YOU KNOW?

According to "Safe at School: Awareness and Action for Parents of Kids Grades K-12" by Carol Silverman Saunders, bike accidents hurt 350,000 children a year seriously enough to require emergency room visits. Basic bike safety requires a helmet. Also, bikes must be the right size – riders should be able to touch the ground with their feet while sitting on the seat. In addition, riders should walk their bikes through intersections, and front baskets or rear-wheel packs are much safer than riding with heavy backpacks.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it."