Archive for the ‘Childrens’ Category

Check out our Summer Reading Camp page for all the information and how to enroll!

It is time again for the Young Author Contest. Any student in any school in Scott County is eligible to enter the contest. The contest is open to 1^st through 12^th grade. Entries will be accepted through April 30, 2013 at 6:00 PM. Winners will be announced on May 13^th with a reception on August 25, 2013.

Participants in grades 7-12 can enter three divisions; Fiction Story/Poem, Children’s Picture Book and Graphic Novel. Students in grades 7-12 may participate in one or all of these categories. A children’s picture book is formatted in 32 pages including the title page with illustrations. The Graphic Novel category is similar to a comic book story.

Guidelines and information are available to view and print from the Young Authors Page on this website, or you may stop by the library to pick them up. You may also call the Library at 872-5341 if you have questions. Thanks for your participation!

Scott County Library & the PEO Club

Storytime & Mommy&Me will start back again on Tuesday, January 8, 2013. It will be a wild trip to the Zoo and a visit with our 6 by 6 Kangaroo! Kids will Notice Print All Around with their new Eating Through the Alphabet Recipe Card.

See You All  Tuesday!

• Mommy & Me @ 10:05 AM
• Storytime @ 10:30 AM or 1:30 PM

Click on our Storytime/Lapsit dropdown under the Children’s tab for this week’s free download from HarperCollins Kids.

Pete the Cat Saves Christmas!

Want the lastest news and downloads from Storytime & and Lapsit. Click on the Children’s Tab:  Storytime & Lapsit: News, Links and Downloads!

This week’s link is for the Pete the Cat stories and songs from Harpercollins’ Kids!

Here is a video book preview from Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes

Join us this Saturday, December 10th for our “ORNAMENT DAY”! 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. for little kids and 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. for Mommies.

Scott County Library is excited to participate in the

All American City Celebration on Saturday, August 13th!

The Library will be sponsoring a Kid’s Poster Contest and hosting an afternoon concert.

The theme of the poster,

“What I Like About Scott City/County”

must conveyed in the poster in order to be eligible for a prize. Posters will be divided into the following age groups:

Ages 3-6

Ages 7-12

Ages 13-15

Ages 16-18

A winner will be chosen from each age division.

Entries are due to the Scott County Library on or before 5 p.m. on Friday, August 12th, 2011.

Entry forms and the poster may be picked up at the Library and will be available in the Library Fair Booth during the

Scott County Free Fair, July 21 – 25, 2011

The Afternoon Concert in the Library will Feature

Terry Wright and Peanut Butter Hamster Band at 3:00 pm

PEANUT BUTTER HAMSTER is on a mission to promote fun, education, good behavior, friendship and positive life style choices through “Music You AND Your Kids Will Love!”

Want to listen to some Good Clean Fun?  Pick up a PB Hamster CD for $10 at the Library (includes a $5 off coupon!).  $1 from each purchase goes toward Children’s Programming in Your Library!

Terry will have the New CD available as well at the PB Hamster Band Performance on August 13th! 

Enroll Today!!!

Sign up today for a June full of great Summer Reading Program Fun!

•Kick Off Night, June 4th @6 pm at Patton Park with Peanut Butter Hamster
•Weekly programs in the the Library on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in June (Sign up for your Personal Itinerary!!)
•Weekly give aways and coupons to local businesses!
•Grand Prize Drawing and lots of other free stuff!

RELEASE

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 (Updated July 20, 2011)

 EMPORIA, KAN. – Two books about young boys making extraordinary decisions have been judged the best by Kansas schoolchildren.

 “Eleven” by Patricia Reilly Giff and “The Boy Who Dared: A Novel Based on the True Story of Hitler Youth” by Susan Campbell Bartoletti are the recipients of the 2011 William Allen White Children’s Book Awards. 

 The William Allen White Children’s Book Award program was founded in 1952 by Ruth Garver Gagliardo, a specialist in children’s literature for Emporia State University. One of the few literary awards that asks young readers to choose the winners, the program is directed by Emporia State University and supported in part by the Trusler Foundation.

 Both authors have been invited to the awards celebration, set for Saturday, Sept. 24, in Emporia.

During the September awards celebration, schoolchildren from across the state of Kansas travel to Emporia for special events including lock-ins, author readings and book signings along with a parade through downtown Emporia to the awards ceremony itself. Many teachers use travel to the book awards as incentives in their school reading programs.