Kids

Welcome back, October!

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October is here which means pumpkins, hayrides, apple picking, and Halloween.  Fall is the favorite time of the year for so many people here in Ohio.  It can be a wonderful season with its cooler nights  and gorgeous days.  Who doesn’t love to see the leaves changing colors?  My family and I already visited a pumpkin patch last weekend.  I got to enjoy watching my grandson run around and play in a corn pit and sunflower field, feed the farm animals and ride on the hayride.  Such a fun day, and great memories were made!

In the Children’s Department of the library we will celebrate Halloween with a family scarecrow making contest starting the week of October 25th.  Families can make a scarecrow together at home and drop it off at the library where we will display the scarecrows and let other patrons vote on their favorite.  Saturday, October 30, we will kick the day off with a spooky storytime at 10am and then announce the winner of the scarecrow contest.  We will choose a 1st place and 2nd place winner. First place winners will get a basket with a $10 Park Street Pizza gift card, family movies and a family Halloween board game.  Second place winners will get a $10 Park Street gift card and a family movie.  We will also have trick or treat, crafts and a game following the storytime.  It should be a fun time for all.  Hope to see you there!

Happy Fall!!

-Jen Gardner, Children’s Department Manager

Countdown to Back to School Bingo

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In just 8 days, the Dover Public Library is hosting its second ever Back to School Bingo event!

Saturday, August 21st at 2:00 PM, tweens and teens ages 10 and up are invited to come to the Community Room to play and win school supplies! This event is sponsored by a 21st Century Afterschool Learning Grant with Dover High School.

This year, we have 12 awesome surprise boxes of school supplies to give away! Each box has a different theme like art, science, or math, and is packed with school supplies!

Here’s a sneak peek at what’s inside:

Participants will only be able to win one of the surprise boxes. If players just can’t stop winning, they’ll be able to pick additional prizes from the Random Prize Box. Additionally, any participants not in the age range 10-18 (or Senior in High School) will be permitted to play for prizes from the Random Prize Box, so parents and younger siblings are welcome to join in!

Following the game, participants will have the opportunity to make a magnetic picture from for their lockers! If unable to stay for the craft, kits will be available to take home instead.

Registration is not required for this event!

I hope you can join us for a fun afternoon of games and crafts as we get ready for a great school year together!

-Liz Strauss, Teen/Outreach Services Manager

Summer Reading Challenge Accepted – by 516 Kids This Year!

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Summer is zooming past us like it does every year.  It seems like as soon as we get into the swing of things it’s time for back to school, pumpkins and Christmas trees.

We have been super busy in the Children’s Department with the Summer Reading Program and awesome summer events.  We have hit a new record this summer with 516 kids signed up so far for the Super Heroes, Super Readers Summer Reading Program. 

The Summer Reading Program will be coming to an end on July 31, and kids have been reading and turning in their prize tickets like crazy!  It is great to see such a great response and excitement for reading!  What an accomplishment for these children to complete the Summer Reading Program challenge of reading 600 minutes!

It has also been a treat to see them at all of our summer events here at the Library. This week we had a Local superhero meet and greet with Storytime on Wednesday at 10:30 AM and next week will finish our programs with a comic book instruction class.  The class will be held on Wednesday July 28 and will be led by Unbound comic creator Doug Laubacher.  You can find this comic featured in The Bargain Hunter. 

Local Heroes wish our Local Olympian Hunter Armstrong Good Luck at Wednesday’s Story Time

It’s been a great summer so far, and we are looking forward to an awesome fall!

-Jen Gardner, Children’s Department Manager

Perplexing, Confusing, Brain-Stumping… Puzzles!

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Puzzles were created in the 18th century by John Spilsbury. The old term for jigsaw puzzles was called “Dissected Maps”. When he first designed this tool, he made a map of Europe into pieces This helped children learn geography! 

To this day, millions of people play puzzles. Studies show that puzzles help work left brain and right brain coordination. This makes puzzles great for children with autism to build fine motor skills.

Puzzle Facts: 

  1. Deepika Ravichandran holds the World Record for completing a 250 piece puzzle in 13 minutes and 7 seconds!
  2. The world’s most difficult puzzle is printed on both sides! It is a picture of Dalmations!
  3. Enigmatology is the study of puzzles
  4. In the U.S., 1.8 billion jigsaw puzzles are sold annually.

So why not give your brain some exercise and complete a puzzle! They are a fun group activity and you can even glue it together and frame it!

In the meantime, stop by the adult department and look at my collection of vintage wooden puzzles including: Sesame Street characters, Humpty Dumpty and even Snoopy!

– Ellen Lint, Library Assistant

National Children’s Book Week

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May 3-9 & November 8-14

Spider-Man at the Dover Public Library

Children’s Book Week started in 1919 is the longest national literacy initiative in the country. In 1913, Franklin K. Matthiews who was the librarian of the Boy Scouts of America, began traveling the U.S. to promote higher standards in children’s books. He proposed creating Children’s Book Week, which would be supported by publishers, book vendors and librarians. In 1916, Matthiews with the help of Publishers Weekly and American Library Association sponsored a Good Book Week along with the Boy Scouts of America. In 1944, Children’s Book Council was formed, and they took over creating Children’s Book Week.

This years theme is “Reading is a Superpower,” which coincidentally is similar to the Dover Public Library’s summer reading theme, “Superhero Super Reader.” The Children’s Department will celebrate book week by giving away a book a day plus free stickers, bookmarks, coloring sheets and crafts.

Come visit to celebrate National Children’s Book Week!

-Jen Gardner, Children’s Room Manager

Start Your (Reading) Engines!

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Are you stuck with how to start your 100 Book Club challenge this year? Here are five big book lists to get you started:

Happy Reading!

100 Book Club Reminder!

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Turn in your 2020 tracker by January 8

Did you reach your reading goal in 2020? If you joined the 100 Book Club and have a tracker to turn in, make sure you do so by Friday, January 8, in order to get your T-shirt and club membership card. This year, our in-person reception has been postponed. We will contact all eligible members when t-shirts are available for pick up and when we have a date for a reception. Call us at 330-343-6123 with any questions.  Congratulations to all who made reading a priority in 2020!

Learn more about the 100 Book Club!