May 2021 -- Welcome Back!
Welcome Back!

We want to officially welcome everyone back to the Library. We are currently open for 15-minute browsing appointments on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30 am - 2:30 pm. To schedule an appointment, call Bonnie at 455-8025 or 455-8031, or email blilienthal@provlib.org. Appointments are limited to one household at a time.

Coming in June, we'll be officially opening the Children's Library during the Library's open hours for browsing only. Stay tuned for more details. Hope to see you soon!

In the meantime...enjoy this fun, virtual tour below!

Fondly,
Miss Anne & Miss Bonnie
Story Ways: Take a Walk, Tell a Story
A three-part writing workshop for children ages 10-13

Saturdays, May 22, June 5 & 19
10 - 11 am | via Zoom

Storyways is a workshop that explores the outdoors and writing. Students will participate over six weeks, including three Saturday morning Zoom sessions, with the goal to write a story about an outdoor experience. Divided into three sessions (“Setting,” “Scene,” “Story”), the workshop will show students how to make a story from a simple walk by using a variety of techniques, including research, note-taking and honing their senses.

Doug Norris is a lead teacher with the RI Family Literacy Initiative/PPL Education Department. Previously, he worked as an editor, columnist and reporter for a variety of newspapers and magazines and was the news director at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. In the fall of 2020, he led a workshop for young journalists that focused on telling a story about “A Day in the Life.”

Registration is required. A Zoom link will be sent before. Participants must register for all three sessions.

Got Teens? Here are some summer programming opportunities for them!
BOOK LISTS!!

Enjoy these books about Recycling and the Environment and Gardens & Gardening

Recycling Information Books
Dinosaurs to the rescue! a guide to protecting our planet - Laurie Krasny Brown
Follow that trash!: all about recycling - Francine Jacobs
Great big green book - Mary Hoffman
Join the no-plastic challenge!: a first book of reducing waste - Scot Ritchie
Kids who are saving the planet - Laurie Calkhoven
One plastic bag: Isatou Ceesay and the recycling women of the Gambia - Miranda Paul
Plastic bottles - Nikki Connor
Recycle!: a handbook for kids - Gail Gibbons
Recycling - Rhonda Lucas Donald
Something old, something new: recycling - Anita Ganeri
True green kids: 100 things you can do to save the planet - Kim McKay
What a load of trash! - Steve Skidmore
What a waste - Jess French
What can you do with an old red shoe?: a green activity book about reuse - Anna Alter

Recycling Stories
Brand-new day! with Mouse and Mole - Wong Herbert Yee
Dinah for President - Claudia Mills
Gabby & Grandma go green - Monica Wellington (Picture book)
Great trash bash - Loreen Leedy (Picture Book)
I can save the earth! - Alison Inches (Picture Book)
Just Grace goes green - Charise Mericle Harper
Miss Fox's class goes green - Eileen Spinelli (Picture Book)
One little bag: an amazing journey - Henry Cole (Picture book)
Recycle every day! - Nancy Elizabeth Wallace (Picture Book)
Round and round again - Nancy Van Laan (Picture book)
Stuff!: reduce, reuse, recycle - Steven Kroll (Picture Book)
There's an owl in the shower - Jean Craighead George
Gardening Information and Facts
101 kid-friendly plants: fun plants and family garden projects - Cindy Krezel
Busy in the garden: poems - George Shannon
Dig in!: 12 easy gardening projects using kitchen scraps - Kari Cornell
Farmer Will Allen and the growing table - Jacqueline Briggs Martin
First garden: the White House garden and how it grew - Robbin Gourley
Flowers - Gail Gibbons
Garbage helps our garden grow: a compost story - Linda Glaser
Garden - Robert Maass
Gardener's alphabet - Mary Azarian
Green thumbs: a kid's activity guide to indoor and outdoor gardening - Laurie Carlson
It's our garden: from seeds to harvest in a school garden - George Ancona *
My backyard garden - Carol Lerner
Nitty-gritty gardening book: fun projects for all seasons - Kari Cornell 
Our school garden! - Rick Swann
Roots, shoots, buckets & boots: gardening together with children - Sharon Lovelace
Secrets of the garden: food chains and the food web in our backyard - Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld 
Up in the garden and down in the dirt - Kate Messner
Young gardener - Stefan Buczacki 

Gardening Stories
And then it's spring - Julie Fogliano (Picture book)
Anywhere farm - Phyllis Root (Picture book)
Badger's perfect garden - Marsha Diane Arnold (Picture book)
Bear's garden - Marcie Colleen (Picture book)
City green - DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan (Picture book)
Errol's garden - Gillian Hibbs (Picture book)
Forever garden - Laurel Snyder (Picture book)
Garden day! - Candice Ransome (Picture book)
Gardener - Sarah Stewart (Picture book)
How does my garden grow? - Gerda Muller (Picture book)
In a garden - Tim McCanna (Picture book)
In my garden - Charlotte Zolotow (Picture book)
Isabella's garden - Glenda Millard (Picture book)
Jack's garden - Henry Cole (Picture book)
Lola plants a garden - Anna McQuinn (Picture book)
Me and the pumpkin queen - Marlane Kennedy
My garden - Kevin Henkes (Picture book)
Peaceful garden - Lucy London (Picture book)
Summer supper - Rubin Pfeffer (Picture book)
Thank you, garden - Elizabeth Garton Scanlon (Picture book)
Ugly vegetables - Grace Lin (Picture book)
Vanderbeekers and the hidden garden - Karina Yan Glaser
Water, weed, and wait - Edith Hope Fine (Picture book)
Year of the garden - Andrea Cheng
Yucky worms - Vivian French (Picture book)
Zinnia's flower garden - Monica Wellington (Picture book)
Library Services Expanded

Our current open hours are:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 9 am - 4 pm
Wednesday: 12 - 7 pm
Sunday: Closed
Get complete info on our hours & services and making appointments.