Thinking about doing some hiking or camping with the family during spring break or this summer? Or perhaps just hanging out locally? John Kallas, author of Edible wild plants: wild foods from dirt to plate will be presenting on Tuesday, March 26th, from 7-9 p.m. in the Burgess Community Room. Learn to identify, harvest, and prepare nutritious, delicious edible wild plants found in the wild and that can also be found within walking distance of your kitchen. Kallas has been teaching about edible wild plants since 1978. This event is for adults and books will be for sale at the event. 
Anthony Browne, who creates a lot of picture books with monkeys and gorillas in them has a brand-new book out called, One Gorilla: A Counting Book. Inside you'll find large numerical numbers and font sizes to match the expressive color palette of one gorilla, two orangutans, three chimpanzees, four mandrills, five baboons, and more primates, all the way up to the number 10, as each creature takes on their own unique personality. Youngsters will love the large scale illustrations along with a self illustrated portrait of the illustrator himself. The book concludes with a large portrait of many people representing a wide variety of ages and ethnicities, just as there are primates. What can be better than animals in a counting book?
I've just come across a great brand-new picture book. It's called I Spy on the Farm by Edward Gibbs. With a circled cutout in the middle of the book, readers get a glimpse of an animal eye along with written clues to guess what animal is being described. Then when you turn the page, see what animal it is. This book provides lots of interactive oportunities for parent and child, such as making animal noises, practicing colors, learning to regognize animals, plus guessing games too. It's a perfect book for toddlers!!
