🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #83 | 📚 We had a special visitor!
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
We had a special visitor! 📚
(Photo by Nancy C. Bull)
We had the honor to welcome Congressman John Joyce MD on Tuesday, January 18th, 2023. Congressman Joyce donated a big stack of books to our library that he acquired through the Library of Congress.
Thank you Congressman for visiting and for supporting the libraries in your district!
➡️ Read all of the news articles about the library: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/about-the-library/press
Passport Services Are Now at the Library! ✈️
Make an appointment at the Juniata County Library to get or renew your passport!
Visit our website to learn more about this new service and how you can get a passport or renew your passport.
Passport agents: Vince Giordano and Christine May
For the family 👪
Need something to do with your little one? We have youth programs for everybody! From book clubs to Saturday programs to homeschool hangouts and storytimes, stop into the library when the day and time suits you and improve the life of your little one!
➡️ Youth programming at the library: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/youth/childrens
📖 Book of the week...
All Through the Night: Important Jobs That Get Done at Night by Polly Faber (illustrated by Harriet Hobday)
(New kids easy reader fiction: people & places, bedtime story)
Nighttime looks almost joyous in this picture book devoted to the work that happens when the sun goes down. The sky is a different color on every page—sometimes blue-green, like the sea, other times a duskier blue, dotted with birds and stars. The city streets are filled with diverse workers performing acts of kindness.
Luigi, a light-skinned baker, is making warm pastries for people’s breakfasts; Fiona, a light-skinned midwife, helps deliver babies. This reassuring tale also calls attention to people who might be overlooked. Dylan and Ruby, brown-skinned and light-skinned, stock the shelves at the supermarket. Eva, light-skinned, sells groceries, doughnuts, and coffee all night long. Brown-skinned Lem “plays their saxophone in a band.” However, an especially rosy depiction of law enforcement—Hassan and Amina, a brown-skinned pair of police officers, are called about a noise in the street but find it’s only a family of foxes—may raise eyebrows.
The book is narrated by a brown-skinned child whose brown-skinned mother, readers learn, is a late-night bus driver. If the story has a fault, it’s that it may be too gentle. There’s so little conflict that, at times, there’s almost no story. Regardless, this is a comforting bedtime story, especially if parents are heading out to work.
Bottom line: Children who get anxious at bedtime—especially those affected by the news—may appreciate the calmness of the text and the wonderfully busy paintings, with a worker in every corner.
Borrow All Through the Night: Important Jobs That Get Done at Night by Polly Faber
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Librarian and Director of the Juniata County Library.
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