Our craft nights at the library are still not on a regular schedule, but as time goes by more and more are coming back. The past couple of years has been hard on everyone. Not only have we had to deal with a global pandemic, we had a winter like no other at the first of 2021. Hopefully 2022 will be a great year.
This month we have had two craft nights. At the first of the month we had a great turnout and made Santa and other Christmas-themed crafts out of Coke cans, recycled coffee creamer bottles, and paintbrushes. On Monday the 13th we used mason jars and other containers to make homemade inexpensive Christmas gifts. We have recipes for spiced tea mix, instant cocoa mix and different kinds of hand scrubs. We will also see different examples of how to decorate the containers. If anyone has any craft ideas they would like to do, please let me know. We will try to do whatever we have an interest for.
We had some audiobooks on CD donated to the library last week. There were three by James Patterson: “Roses are Red,” “Cajun Justice” and “Private India: City on Fire.” From bestselling author Jeffrey Deaver we have “The Kill Room.” From Ruth Rendell, the author Time Magazine calls the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world, we have “Not in the Flesh,” a new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery. As Wexford painstakingly moves to resolve multiple mysteries, long-buried secrets are brought to daylight, and Ruth Rendell once again proves why she has been hailed as our greatest living mystery writer.
We also received a new shipment of children’s books. Named one of the best children’s books of the year by the New York Times we have “Long Road to the Circus” by award-winning writer and librarian Betsy Bird and illustrated by Caldecott Medalist David Small.
Not due to be released until December 28 on Amazon is World Palindrome Champion Jon Agee’s graphic novel “Otto: A Palindrama”—but we have a copy! This absurdly clever and funny graphic novel is told entirely in palindromes.
Another graphic novel we received is “Barb: The Last Berzerker, Book 1” by author-illustrator Dan Abdo and authorillustrator Jason Patterson. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power meets Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man in this side-splitting graphic novel about a young Berzerker who has to rescue her fellow warriors from the evil villain Witch Head before he destroys the world! We have two for the younger children with a cat as the main character.
In “See the Dog: Three Stories About a Cat” written by David LaRochelle and illustrated by Mike Wohnoutka see what happens when a cat tries to be a dog. With this second wry primer, the creators of “See the Cat” return to demonstrate that standing in for a friend can be trickier than expected. In “Negative Cat” two-time Caldecott winner Sophie Blackall spins a winning tale about Max, a feline whose behavior doesn't win any raves, except from the boy who believes in him and finds a way to turn a negative into a positive.
Check it all out at the library.
Donnice Carruth is director of the Dickens County-Spur Library, in Spur.
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