Time to begin thinking about winter activities. Start with the library! Choose lots and lots of great stories to share with your family, a warm quilt, and a cozy fire. You can use our YOUTH WEBSITE links to find book titles that appeal to you and your family, and then just click here to put them on hold at your nearest branch library.

Don’t forget about CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK, celebrated nationally November 11-17. Children’s Book Week brings the United States “together to talk about books and reading and, out of our knowledge and love of books, to put the cause of children's reading squarely before the whole community and, community by community, across the whole nation. For a great nation is a reading nation." Choose a calendar and check out the activities that will be celebrated at your local branch, or just CELEBRATE CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK AT HOME! As a parent, read stories to your children written by your favorite authors, take your children to the public library to check out books that are really COOL, or do some research online about children’s authors. Whatever you do to celebrate, just read, read, read, read, read!

The Madison County Library System welcomes your ideas. Please contact me at (601) 859-7733 ext. 107 to offer program or website suggestions.

Happy Reading,

Martha Womack
Youth Services Director