The Lizard's Tale
STORYTIME
Sundays & Tuesdays at 11:30 AM
Come join us in the Lizard's Tale for some great storytime fun! Stories with a different theme each week. --Ages 2+
05.04 & 05.06: Cinco De Mayo
It's time for a fiesta! Cinco de Mayo is right around the corner, and today we'll celebrate by reading some spicy stories from Latin America. We'll learn how to count to ten in Spanish!
05.11: Love you Mom
Today is Mother's Day, and we'll read stories all about that very special person we call Mom.
05.13: Bugs, Bugs, BUGS!
Ever wonder what a worm has on his schedule every day? How about a spider? Calling all creepy crawly lovers for a storytime bugApalooza!
05.18 & 05.20: Trip around the World
Join us as we take a glob-trotting armchair trip around the world!
Middle Reader Bookclub meets Sun, May 18th at 2pm to discuss THE PENDERWICKS by Jeanne Birdsall.
Ages 7 to 12.
This enjoyable tale of four sisters, a new friend, and his snooty mother is rollicking fun. The girls' father is a gentle, widowed botany professor who gives his daughters free reign but is always there to support or comfort them. Rosalind, 12, has become the mother figure. Skye, 11, is fierce and hot-tempered. Jane, 10, is a budding writer of mysteries who has the disconcerting habit of narrating aloud whatever is occurring around her. Batty, four, is an endearingly shy, loving child who always wears butterfly wings. The family dog, Hound, is her protector. The tale begins as the Penderwicks embark on a summer holiday in the Berkshire Mountains, at a cottage on the grounds of a posh mansion owned by the terribly snobbish Mrs. Tifton. Her son, Jeffrey, is a brilliant pianist, but her heart is set on him attending a military academy like her beloved father. The action involves Rosalind's unrequited love for the 18-year-old gardener, Skye's enmity and then friendship with Jeffrey, Jane's improvement in her melodramatic writing style, and Batty's encounter with an angry bull whom she rather hopefully calls "nice horsie." Problems are solved and lessons learned in this wonderful, humorous book that features characters whom readers will immediately love, as well as a superb writing style. Bring on more of the Penderwicks!
