Weekly Program Bulletin:
January 3, 2022
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Anthony Doerr Returns to The Library
Friday, January 14
7:00 p.m.
Anthony Doerr joins us to discuss his new book, Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was shortlisted for the National Book Award. Please note: In-person event registration is full.
(No replay available)
6:30 p.m.
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Upcoming Events & Programs |
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Tuesday, Jan. 4
Attention Writers! Drop in for a virtual, writing-prompt based workshop, led by Martha Williams, the Library’s programs and education manager.
Noon-1:00p.m.
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Wed., January 5
Music Director Alasdair Neale comes to the Library in partnership with the Sun Valley Music Festival. In-person registration is full, but we'll be streaming on Vimeo.
6:30 p.m.
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Thursday, January 6
Work with Buffy McDonald to learn how to use our Digital Collection, which gives you 24/7 access to our digital library, free with your Library card.
3:00 p.m.
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Friday, January 7: Robert E. Lee and Me": EVENT POSTPHONED
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Children's Library Programs |
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Story Time at the Library
Mondays, 10:30 a.m. Lecture Hall
Librarian Lee Dabney uses books to teach pre-school aged children letters, sounds, and a love of books.
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Recommendations from
Staff and Students
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DeAnn Campbell, Children’s and Young Adult Director, recommends The Blizzard written and illustrated by John Rocco.
We are headed into a new year and a new month. January has always been, for me, a month of snow. Deep, deep snow.
As a child in southern Idaho, snow was often so deep that it covered the fence posts on our family farm. There were days and sometimes weeks when we hunkered down due to blowing, drifting snow. There was something exhilarating about being completely snowed in. Stuck.
Blizzard, by John Rocco, is the story of the New England blizzard of 1978 when it snowed for days, and parts of New England were buried under forty inches of snow. The book is based on the author’s experience as a ten-year-old boy in that famous blizzard.
First, school closed early as the snow began. The snow didn’t stop. It fell through the night. The snow was so high, they climbed out the window because they couldn’t open their front door. Walking was like “trying to move through white quicksand.” There was hot cocoa and shoveling and secret snow tunnels and cozy days in front of the fireplace.
But the roads weren’t plowed. Soon, their food began to run out. Would a ten-year-old boy using tennis rackets and a sled be able to get provisions to the entire neighborhood? Would the snowplows ever come? Find out in John Rocco’s beautifully illustrated picture book, Blizzard.
And let’s hope, if not for a blizzard, for lots and lots of January snow.
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Hello! My name is Judah. My name is Judah and I am in the 6th grade. I enjoy playing soccer and baseball. In the winter, I enjoy Nordic and alpine skiing. When it comes to reading, adventure books are my favorite. For my Book Beat review, I read Where the Red Fern Grows by Coleen Hoover.
Where the Red Fern Grows is story about a boy named Billy and his hunting dogs. It takes place in the Ozark Mountains in Oklahoma on an Indian reservation, with his three sisters, his ma and pa, some chickens and a cat.
The story starts out with Billy’s desire to get two pure bred hunting dogs. His family is poor and can’t afford to buy two dogs themselves. However, his family’s lack of money does not stop Billy. He is a boy of great determination and works hard to save enough money to buy his pups.
The dogs become his best friends. He trains them how to hunt and they set off on hunting adventures almost every night. He even enters them in a hunting competition.
It is amazing how strong the dogs’ relationship is to Billy. The dogs and Billy seem to understand each other and have a great love and loyalty towards one another. This is a very exiting book which includes sleeping in a cave out in the wild, and even coming face to face with a mountain lion!
It is a book about great determination and never giving up on your dreams. I recommend this book because it is exciting, fun and makes you want to read more.
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