Jiggleman and West Puppets Coming Soon!!!

Attention one and all!! We have some amazing performers coming to perform for the Mulberry Library!!! They both will be performing at the Mulberry Civic Center, 901 NE 5th Street, Mulberry, FL 33860.

To our utter delight, Friday, July 22nd at 10:30 a.m., Jonathon West with West Puppets will be performing a marionette puppet show at the Mulberry Civic Center. We can't wait to see his magic with marionette puppets!

And, coming Wednesday, July 27th at 10:00 a.m., prepare your minds for Jiggleman! He has been on the David Letterman show eight times, so we are thrilled to have his show visit Mulberry (in the Mulberry Civic Center).

Call the library with any questions, these shows are for all ages, so come one, come all!!!

863-425-3246

SUMMER CALENDAR -JUNE

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1 Preschool Story Time, Ms. Sofie’s Corner 10:30	2 Teen Advisory Board Meeting 3:30	3	4
5 WEEKLY COUNTRY THEMES:	6	7	8 Preschool Story Time, Ms. Sofie’s Corner 10:30	9	10	11
12 AUSTRALIA	13 Elementary-Age Craft Ages 6-9 1 p.m.	14 Movie Day 3 p.m.	15 Preschool Story Time, Ms. Sofie’s Corner 10:30	16 Tween Activity Ages 10-13 2 p.m. Teen Time Ages 14-18 4 p.m.	17 Summer KickOff Global Adventure Party 1 p.m.	18
19 USA	20 Elementary-Age Craft Ages 6-9 1 p.m.	21 Movie Day 3 p.m.	22 Preschool Story Time, Ms. Sofie’s Corner 10:30	23 Tween Activity Ages 10-13 2 p.m. Teen Time Ages 14-18 4 p.m.	24 Cracker Tales Linda Chancey, Guest Storyteller 1-2 p.m.	25
26 AFRICA	27 Elementary-Age Craft Ages 6-9 1 p.m.	28 Movie Day 3 p.m.	29 Preschool Story Time, Ms. Sofie’s Corner 10:30	30 Tween Activity Ages 10-13 2 p.m. Teen Time Ages 14-18 4 p.m.	1 Drum Magic Jana Broder Time: 1-2 p.m.

Teens Researched 1,347 Books for an AR Project!

Congratulations to our T.A.B. (Teen Advisory Board) members for researching and cataloging 1,347 books in our Children's room in a three-week time period!

The board has taken on the project to research and label AR points and reading levels on all of the children books.

This is a daunting task, but they are up for it! So, much so that they competed against each other in teams to see which team could research the most books.

So in their spare time, they came in to work on this project. And we are ready to announce the winners of their contest!

Branden and Durante won with a dramatic finish when they researched a combined total of 561 books!

Great job to Branden and Durante! But, every member who competed did an incredible job by helping the library reach our goal of completing this project by the end of the summer!

We are hoping to aid the schools in the quest of having students read in and out of school.

By labeling the AR points in our library, kids can check out our books and know immediately the reading level of the book and the potential AR points they can earn at school.

Even though they cannot take the AR tests at our library, we can help them by letting them know what AR books we have. They can then complete the tests at school after reading at home.

If you know of any teens in 9th grade and up who would like to participate in this AR project and earn community service hours by joining the Teen Advisory Board, please contact Sofia Simpson at 425-3246.

Preschool Story Time, Ms. Sofie's Corner

Ms. Sofie's Corner, our preschool story time, meets Wednesdays at 10:30. We have a wonderful time reading stories and singing songs with our puppet friend, Freddie the Frog. Come and join our silliness and other such fun this week.

Also, Ms. Sofie would like to thank the children and parents who are already a part of Ms. Sofie' s Corner. She enjoys every minute of it.

Book Character Day!

We are excited to announce a great event coming up, called Character Day! Tuesday, May 3rd, we are celebrating Children Book Week by hosting a friendly and fun contest.

We invite kids, K-5th grade, to come to the library dressed as their favorite book character. The best costume will win a prize worthy of their creativity.

So, read your favorite books again and become inspired to come dressed to impress!

The event will be Tuesday, May 3rd, from 3:30 to 4:30 in our Childrens Room.

Ms. Sofia, our Children's librarian, has agreed to come dressed in her favorite book character's attire, can you guess who it will be?

Please call the library at 425-3246 to sign your child up.

T.A.B.

Mulberry Library is proud to introduce our new Teen Advisory Board! Made up of local teens, they have made it their mission to help the library bring in fun teen events. Calling themselves, T.A.B., they consider themselves 99% kid and 1% teen.

Please welcome our new awesome members and we look forward to welcoming more. They have been hard at work with our first scheduled event, the Wii Team Extreme.

In this event, teens will be playing against each other in Wii Bowling until every team has been eliminated except for one. That team will be the winner of the event and can claim all bragging rights.

Teens, bring a friend as it is a team event, with two to a team.

We look forward to a great event!

Over 1,000 books read in our Reading Contest!

We are very proud to announce these results to our month-long reading contest! What an accomplishment to our young readers who read to their heart's content and more to get in as many tickets as possible. Each book they checked out received one ticket, so when we tallied our tickets, we were thrilled to see over 1,000 books had been read in one month! So, congratulations young readers and we look forward to our next reading contest in the summer! Keep reading!