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April 2022
Spring is in the air… happy April, PJ friends!

We hope you enjoy this month's selection from PJ Library.

PJOW families please remember to go to your accounts and choose your books by the 10th of the month. Parents of children who are 8½ and older can now activate their children's accounts at pjourway.org.

Please remember to email us if your family has moved. It takes about six weeks for an address change to be processed. And as always, we want to know if there is a new family who we should welcome to PJ Library, or if you have added a baby to yours.
UPCOMING FAMILY EVENTS FOR YOU
Tot Shabbat
Fridays, April 1, 8, 22 (Pesach)
Paperny Family JCC
10 am

Join us for our free, interactive half-hour of Shabbat fun! We celebrate the joy of Shabbat and holidays with stories, songs, and brachot (blessings) with infants to preschoolers, their parents, and grandparents. Registration is only required to attend in-person –– by 11:59pm on the Thursday before Tot Shabbat.
IF YOU OR YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS ARE FEELING UNWELL, PLEASE DO NOT COME IN-PERSON. WE WILL BE HAPPY TO WELCOME YOU ON ZOOM!
Pesach Break Matzah Mania
PJ Pesach @ Home Kit
Pick-Up at the Paperny Family JCC
Sunday, April 10 | 10am - Noon*
Monday, April 11 | 8:30 - 10:30am*

Your PJ Pesach @ Home Kit has everything you need to celebrate one of our favourite Jewish holidays! This program is suitable for children under eight.

*Alternative pick-up arrangements can be made.
Need ideas for enjoying Passover with your kids? Use this one-page guide for quick story, activity, and recipe suggestions grouped by age.

If you have some very young attendees this year, follow along with these videos for a fun, engaging, and short seder. By the time they think to ask “Are we done yet?” the answer will be “Yes!”

Make a Passover tablescape, decorate puppets, play MadLibs, build a question catcher, and more!

This beautifully illustrated Haggadah is your guide to a great seder (ritual meal). It’s written by parents and educators to help make your Passover experience more family-friendly, whether as a guest or host. Order yours today in the US or Canada. Learn more about the PJ Library family Haggadah here.
This month, find out what happens when Ada moves to the countryside to escape war, or help Alyssa choose between ballet, her bat mitzvah, and a sick friend. Follow José onto a pirate ship in an exciting graphic novel, or learn about basketball legend Red Klotz in a fun biography. Any of these titles would be a great addition to your bookshelf. Be sure to make your choice by the 10th

Flying cars, world peace, robots, new plants ... What's your dream for the year 3000? PJ Our Way kids imagine the future in this creative writing showcase.
A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS
Calgary Jewish Federation's UJA, The Harold Grinspoon Foundation,
 Cathy and Marty Cole, Jackie Halpern and Glenn Solomon,
Ila and Barry Hardin, Marilyn Libin, Beth and Lorne Price,
Lenny and Faigel Shapiro, Evelyn Sheftel-Shapiro,
Ida and Sam Switzer, Fanny Wedro