To Watch TV or Not to Watch TV

I sometimes think that children need a break so let them do nothing but watch TV. Then after working on this years summer reading programs, I realized I want them to come to the library!

This year's theme is Be Creative @ the Library which opens the door for art, music and theater.

The first thing I got excited about was:

1. ART> I am going to introduce three major masters and their style and the children get to try their hand at creating their own masterpieces.
2. MUSIC>I have several band students coming to the library and put on a little program about their instruments. Then the children will be make their own music using recycled materials.
3. THEATER>This is my favorite because I am really a DIVA! The children will making their own puppets and put on a puppet show! cute :)

So, if you have children grades 1-3rd and you want them off the coach this Summer-bring them to the library! Fridays 10:30-11:30am.

Watch them have fun being creative and maybe they will want to check out a book!

I hope to see you this Summer.. sorry TV you'll have to wait until the Fall!

The best English-language novels of the 20th century

A few years ago Modern Library picked the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. As with all "best-of" lists, much controversy was generated over the titles selected.

The top ten novels are as follows:

1. Ulysses, James Joyce
2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabakov
5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
6. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
8. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
9. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Come visit the Monessen Public Library & District Center to see the rest of the list and to check out some of these "classics"!!