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Children's Monthly Newsletter

May 2008

Mother’s Day Picture Books

Mars needs moms! / Berkeley Breathed
When a disgruntled boy sees his mother being kidnapped by Martians, he realizes he loves her and will go to any lengths to protect her.
Come along, Daisy! / Jane Simmons.
Daisy the duckling becomes so engrossed in playing with dragonflies and lily pads that she temporarily loses her mother.
Mommies say shhh! / Patricia Polacco.
Animals make many different noises, but when they make too much noise their mommies quiet them down.
Yum, yum, yummy / Martin Waddell
Greedy Guzzley Bear steals honey from three cubs, but Mummy Bear comes to the rescue.

Mother’s Day Fiction

My mom the pirate / by Jackie French
When he asks his mother, a privateer for Queen Elizabeth, to go to school she insists it be the best one in the world, only it
Firehorse / Diane Lee Wilson.
Spirited y 15 year-old horse lover Rachel Selby determines to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, while Boston city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
The tail of Emily Windsnap / Liz Kessler
After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole new world.
Becoming Naomi León / Pam Muñoz Ryan.
When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.

May Events
1st- PJ Storytime ages 2-5 7pm
6th - Fairytale Storytime ages 2-5
10am and ages 6-8 3:30pm
8th- PJ Storytime ages 2-5 7pm
16th – Sing Along with Penny 10am
22th-Medford Junior Pageturners Meeting (book club for grades 3,4) 7pm
30th- Sing Along with Penny 10 am

Featured Author-Eleanor Estes
“Eleanor Estes was an American children's author. She was born in New Haven,Connecticut as Eleanor Ruth Rosenfield. Originally a librarian, Estes' writing career began following a case of tuberculosis. Bedridden while recovering, Estes began writing down some of her childhood memories, which would later turn into full-length children's books.
Ginger Pye (1951) won the Newbury Medal, and three of her other books (The Middle Moffat, Rufus M., and The Hundred Dresses) were chosen as Newbury Honor books. She also received the Certificate of Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Literature and was nominated for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. By the time of her death at age 82, Estes had written 19 children's books and one novel for adults”. –“Eleanor Estes” Wikipedia
Ginger Pye

The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
The Moffets

Adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.

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