We have had some great programming here for our Collaborative Summer Reading this year. All of the programs for the children have been presented by local guests. One, Jon Shipp the beekeeper, has presented to the children before. His program is always a big hit with the children and grownups alike.
Jeromy Rutledge brought his chuck wagon, the Revvie Lee, this past Tuesday. He took the group all around the chuck wagon telling them about every feature and how things were done on a trail ride with the cowboys. We had more adults (without children) attend this program than any I have been involved with. Just know that everyone is welcome to attend our programming.
If you see a subject that interests you please join us. Briana Sturgis with Argo Blockchain will have presented her program by the time the newspaper comes out and we are hoping to see a big turnout for it.
The last program of the year will be Tuesday June 28th. Our very own Texas Spur publisher, co-publisher and editors will be here presenting “Your Newspaper and How it Works.” The drawing for the grand prizes will be held after their program.
Be sure and have your children get their reading logs turned in. For every ten books either read to them or they read themselves they will get to pick a prize from the treasure chest and receive one entry into the grand prize drawing. The three categories are ages 0-5, 6-8, and 8 and above.
We have another Magic Mommy book by Karin McCay available at the library. We have “Marvin and the Big Race.” Another one available by McCay is “The Frog with ASD.” Steven Berk, M.D., dean of the Texas Tech University School of Medicine, had this to say about the book: “It not only honors those with autism but all who struggle to find success in their own unique way.” All of McCay’s books can be found in the children’s section of the library.
In a box of donated books to the library we added to our shelves “Harlem Shuffle” by Colson Whitehead, two time Pulitzer Prize–winning author. The book’s ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It’s a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.
Also donated was “Blood Meridian” by Carmac McCarthy, which is based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s. It traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
Check it all out at the library.
Donnice Carruth is director of the Dickens County-Spur Library, in Spur.
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