The kids’ window is titled, “Fluttering Through Books.” It features an amazing array of books about butterflies. Front and center is Live Forgiven, by Dr. Jeff Warren, with its monarch butterfly on the cover. We hope kids will be curious about butterflies, bees, birds, and all sorts of interesting topics.
Nothing makes us happier than to see children read one book after another, whether it’s the preschoolers who come here each week for Story Time, the families who check out armloads of books each week, or the older youngsters who come back week after week to get something new to devour.
Our other window is titled, “Grow Your Mind.” It has a charming garden theme, with gardening tools and gloves, plus the little markers you’d put in a row of vegetables in your garden. When we were choosing books to put in the display, we tried to come up with an eclectic sampling. We were almost surprised at the variety of topics we had right here in our collection.
But isn’t that what a good library provides? Patrons can come into the PCBC Library and just wander around, browsing the shelves, discovering all the titles and topics they never explored before. Even within a relatively narrow topic, Theology (the 200s), there are commentaries on the Bible, devotionals, books about dealing with life’s vicissitudes, raising children or spouses, and so on. There’s always a new surprise at the end of the book shelf.
For our Book of the Week, we chose a gorgeous children’s book, Growing Vegetable Soup, written and illustrated by Lois Ehlert. Just 30 pages, it has all the basics of planting and tending a garden, plus cooking vegetable soup. The words are large and few (our best recommendation for the preschool set) and the colors and drawings are actually mouth-watering.
The message, told so colorfully with our window displays, is that we can all flutter through books and grow our minds. We hope you’re inspired, and we hope you’ll come visit our garden of books in the PCBC Library.
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