Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos Celebration

Join our Día de los Muertos event, where we will celebrate and remember loved ones who have passed on. Listen to stories, make projects and decorate sugar skulls. Enjoy hot cocoa and pan de muerto, too! It's happening on Sunday, November 1st, 1:30–2:30 p.m. in the Burgess Community Room and All ages are welcome to attend!

El Día de los Muertos es un momento para celebrar y recordar a los seres queridos que han fallecido. Escuche historias, hagan proyectos y decoren calaveras de azúcar. Disfrute de chocolate caliente y pan de muerto, también! Domingo, 1 de noviembre | 1:30–2:30 p.m. | Centro de Comunidad Burgess | Para todas las edades

Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos

Join us Sunday, November 3 from 1:30-2:30 in the Burgess Community Room!
Celebrate and remember loved ones who have passed on. listen to stories, make mini altars and skeleton puppets, decorate sugar skulls and make tissue paper marigolds. Enjoy hot cocoa and pan de muerto, too!

Domingo, 2 de noviembre, 1:20-2:30pm
Burgess Community Room
Para todas las endades

Celebremos y recordemos a los seres queridos que han fallecido. Van a escuchar cuentos, hacer mini altares y títeres de esqueletos, decorar calaveras de azúcar y hace caléndulas de papel de seda. iPodrán disfrutar de chocolate caliente y pan de muerto, también!

Outdoor Games of Mexico / Juegos al aire libre de Mexico

Join us on Sunday August 11 from 1:30-2:30 for some fresh air and a chance to play outside. Play Avion, Encantados, Balero and several other games that you might already know. The names may be different, but the fun will be the same!

Domingo 11 de agosto de 1:30-2:30 en el patio de afuera de la sala Puett. Para todas las edades.
Disfruta el aire fresco, el sol en tu piel y la oportunidad de jugar afuera. Juega al avion, a los encantados, al balero y muchos otros juegos que tal vez ya conozcas. El nombre puede ser diferente, ipero la diversion v a ser la misma!

National Parent's Day is July 28th

In honor of National Parent’s Day on Sunday, July 28^th, the U.S. Government Printing Office is promoting one of their parenting publications.  The 32-page PDF booklet is available for free on Internet in English and in Spanish.

The booklet give tips on teaching you (the parent) to be responsible, committed, positive, patient, attentive, precise, diligent, results-oriented, and innovative with your child.  For example: “Your responsibility for your child’s education begins with modeling at home. If your kids see you reading, they will want to read. If you drag your kid to every Civil War battle site because you are a Civil War buff, your child may ace his or her American history exams. When you volunteer at your child’s school, your kids are going to see how important their education is to you.”

·    The authors also recommend a large number of parent-child and pro-school activities. Some of the examples are reading aloud to your child each day starting at birth, playing games with your child, contacting his or her teachers, visiting his or her school, AND taking your child to the library!!!

To learn more about this booklet, see this article: http://govbooktalk.gpo.gov/2013/07/25/parent-power-the-power-to-make-a-difference/.

Children’s Day/Día de los Niño’s

 

Sunday, April 28

1:30-3p.m., Burgess Community Room

All Ages

Come celebrate children and reading at our first annual Día de los Niño’s program!

Join us at 1:30 for a bilingual Spanish story time with books, songs and puppets. Stay to make a variety of simple puppets and enjoy refreshments. Budding performers can create your own show on our stage using your newly crafted puppets.

Would you like to learn more about Día de los Niño’s? Click here

Meet the Collection Monday (Tuesday Edition): Young Adult Spanish

Hello and welcome to another (belated) Meet the Collection Monday. Allow me to introduce you to our Young Adult Spanish collection, which lives on the second floor of the library on the shelf with the YA Graphic Novels. The collection consists of, you guessed it, young adult materials in Spanish. Some are non-fiction like Puberman, a comic book set up to inform boys about what they can expect from puberty. There are also other great informative books about subjects ranging from algebra to Che Guevara.

Moving on to fiction, you will find both translations and books written originally in Spanish. When I select titles for the collection, I look especially for translations of popular teen books like Alexandra Adornetto's Halo and classics that will support high school curriculum and reading lists like Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. 

Some of the most popular items in the collection are graphic novels, including translations of Japanese comics like Tokyo Mew Mew and American comics like Hellboy. Come peruse the collection and find the next great book for your Spanish speaking or learning teen!

Bilingual Spanish books

I'm a librarian nerd. I admit it. That's why I am SO excited to announce that we now have Bilingual stickers on our bilingual kids' Spanish books. We often get the question, "How do I find books in both English and Spanish?" Until now, we have always had to tell patrons to find books that have both English and Spanish on the spine. Just turn yourself sideways, practically upside down so you can get at the right angle to look for books that have both English and Spanish words. No joke. That really was about the easiest way to find a bilingual book in our Juvenile Spanish collection. Now we have a nice brown and white "Bilingual/Bilingue" sticker that is much easier to pick out just scanning the shelves.

Meet the Collection Monday: Juvenile Spanish

I also get to take care of the Juvenile Spanish collection. There are 6 sub-collections within Juvenile Spanish: Board Books, Picture Books, Early Readers, Non-Fiction, Fiction, and Graphic Novels. The Juvenile Spanish collection is housed between the Picture Books and Early Readers in the Children's Room. All of our Spanish books have orange labels on them.

The collection is used by native Spanish speakers as well as native English speakers who want to learn Spanish. We have some books written entirely in Spanish, and some in both English and Spanish. The bilingual books are good for Spanish speakers trying to improve their English, and English speakers trying to improve their Spanish.

Board Books are specifically for babies and toddlers learning how books work. The Picture Books have a broad range of levels, anywhere from just a few words per page to several paragraphs per page. There are even a few Picture Books that include CDs along with them. Early Readers are great for native Spanish and native English speakers to learn how to read Spanish. The Non-Fiction section has a broad range of topics that can support kids in homework and is particularly good for parents whose primary language is Spanish who want to help their kids with their homework. Non-Fiction also has some high interest topics (vehicles, animals, biographies, fairy tales, etc). Fiction is made up of chapter books anywhere between 1st grade and 5th grade reading levels. Almost all of the chapter books are written in Spanish only. We have a very small, but hopefully growing section of graphic novels, or comics, shelved with the Fiction.

Many of the Spanish books are translations of popular books originally written in English (Harry Potter, Mo Willems, Dr. Seuss), but I also work hard on finding books that were originally written in Spanish. It is often hard to get Spanish translations, and they are often published way after the originals in English. Once in awhile, though, I can actually get a book in Spanish before it is published in English, like the Tunnels series, by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams.