In this Issue

• Realm of Ice and Sky with Buddy Levy

• Paint Club for Tweens & Teens

• This Week at the Library

• Upcoming Program Highlights

• Staff Review: The Dog Who Followed the Moon

• Teen Book Beat: The Lost Year

• Ask a Librarian

See our full calendar here.

Story Time: Literacy

Monday, March 10

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Children's Library

Lunchtime Language: Spanish

Monday, March 10

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Beginning Knitting



Monday, March 10

4:30-6:00 p.m.

Foyer Fireplace

Conversational Spanish

Tuesday, March 11

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Learning Commons

GNARly Solutions

Conserving What We Love

about the Wood River Valley

Dr. Danya Rumore of the University of Utah discusses how collaborative, community-driven approaches can address growth and environmental challenges while preserving what makes our valley special. In partnership with the Wood River Land Trust.

Tuesday, March 11

5:30-6:30 p.m.

Lecture Hall + Livestream

English Language Learning

Tuesday, March 11

6:00-8:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Virtual Creative Writing Workshop

Wednesday, March 12

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Zoom

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Paws to Read with Pansy

Wednesday, March 12

2:30-3:30 p.m.

Children's Library

Genealogy Workshop

Wednesday, March 12

3:00-5:00 p.m.

Learning Commons

Tech Help

Wednesday, March 12

5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Learning Commons

Maintaining Community Bonds Amidst Growth and Change

Join us for an exploration of the intangible aspects of life in the Wood River Valley that foster community, facilitated by Dr. Danya Rumore and engaging participants in a dialogue within small groups and as a whole. In partnership with the Spur Community Foundation.

Wednesday, March 12

5:30 p.m. | Lecture Hall + Livestream

Pop-In Poetry



This Week:

Between my finger and my thumb,

whose squat pen rests?

Thursday, March 13

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Learning Commons

Nature Journaling

Thursday, March 13

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Registration has closed.

Gold Mine Processing Associate Janis Tedrow recommends The Dog Who Followed the Moon by James Norbury. 

When I initially got the illustrated children's book, The Dog Who Followed the Moon, I had my six-year-old granddaughter in mind. But as soon as I started reading the book, I realized it is not only a book for children, but a book for everyone.

The two animal characters are the puppy, Amaya, and the old wolf. They come together under unusual circumstances and compassion. While searching for her parents, Amaya, was attacked by a pack of wolves. An old wolf from the pack had a change of heart and saved Amaya from all the others. The wolf and Amaya began a journey together without understanding the destination. 

They started following the moon and soon discovered what they were looking for was each other. As they embarked on this journey and embraced this adventure together, they learned lessons about the endurance of life, the meaning of love and the fact that what you do gives meaning to life...

Read Janis's entire review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Hi! My name is Kire.  I am in 6th grade, and I love to read, play volleyball, and play my viola. For my Book Beat review, I read The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh.

The Lost Year is a historical novel that I would describe as a page-turning story about family and survival. The book is about a 13-year-old boy who lives during the Covid 19 pandemic with his great-great grandmother.

When Matthew’s Nintendo gets taken away from him, he is forced to look through old boxes that belong to his great-great grandmother.

In these old boxes, Matthew finds all sorts of things, like an old photo, that makes him want to learn about his great-great grandmother’s past. Through photos, journals, other things, and his great-great grandmother explaining everything, Matthew slowly learns about his great-great grandmother’s crazy past.

He learns that she used to live in Kyiv, Russia, during the Holodomor, which was a famine from 1932 to 1933, and that she had two other cousins. He also learns his great-great grandmother’s secret that she had kept to herself since 1933...

Read Kire's entire book review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.