Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Annual Library Christmas Party

Hello to all our Faithful Followers!

Boy am I stuffed! I sincerely hope you all are also as stuffed as the thanksgiving turkey that sat on your family table on Thursday and is now … devoured. :)

This is the post I promised with many details on Santa Clause and his writing friends coming to town. It all starts on Saturday, December 12th from 1:00 to 3:00pm. There will be lot's of yummy snacks and treats, and Santa Clause. But there will also be a book signing, here are the scrumptious details on that:


Book Signing

Hubbardston Library
Saturday December 12th, 1:00pm to 3:00pm

Featuring
Rick Cunningham and Mary Jane (Herald) Kooiman


Rick Cunningham
will be coming home to Hubbardston to sign his book "Lucky Elves", a Christmas story about observations from an elf's point of view and the personal discovery that doing chores, being responsible and sharing talents can be rewarding and fun. Rick wrote and illustrated the book. It is full of colorful and funny action cartoons in a bold style that kids love.

Mary Jane (Herald) Kooiman
will join Rick with her first children's book "Jackson and the Big Blue Boots", illustrated by Rick, "Jackson" is a charming story about a little boy who loved his blue boots and wore them everywhere. Mary Jane is a graduate of Carson City High School and Central Michigan University and taught English for more than 30 years at Alma High School as well as at Alma College, CMU and Davenport.

The books will be sold for $10 a piece and you don't even have to return them! :)
I hope to see you all there, and if I don't get a chance to talk to you before then, Merry Christmas! And a Happy New Years!
-Library Spokes-Person

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hey Everyone!

I'm going to bug you for two reasons; First, to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving! Don't stuff yourselves too much and have fun with all that precious family time!

Second, I wanted to give our faithful customers a friendly heads-up on up-coming activities at the library. So here's the scoop: Whether we like it or not, after Thursday, Christmas is coming! And everyone is cordially invited to the following, very merry and sure-to-be-sweet events:

On Tuesday, December 1st we're having a Miche Purse Party!! A perfect Christmas present for the women in your life, come check them out for free. We start at 6:30pm.

On Thursday, December 3rd we're having a Christmas Card-making class!! It will run from 6:00 to 8:30pm, please RSVP in advance (our phone number is 989-981-6106), if you don't RSVP there may not be enough supplies. We'll be making 12 cards each for $15 a person. Please bring tape and scissors if you have them, because sadly we have limited supplies.

On Thursday, December 10th we're having a Cookie Exchange!! It will run from 6:00 to 8:00pm. We ask you to bring three dozen cookies to trade, along with the recipe to give out and share. Or if you don't have time to bake in this busy season, come and enjoy the merry company.

On Saturday, December 12th we're having our annual Christmas Party!! We'll also have some special guests come in for a book signing!! So come see Rick Cunningham, Mary Jane Kooiman, and Santa Clause himself at 1:00pm. I will be posting more details on this in the next couple days, so stay posted!

So now that you have the inside scoop, mark your calenders and tell your friends! I look forward to seeing you soon! Happy Tuesday, and have a very Merry Thanksgiving!
Signed,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Library Spokes-Person

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Quick Catch-Up

Hey! To all our small-town Library fans!
For those of you who didn't make it to the Haunted Library, I thought I'd let you know how it went. And for those of you who DID make it… I hope you're brave enough to come visit us for our next big events!

On Thursday night, we had quite the spooky time. Eating brains, drinking blood, and with all our friends (the mummy, the vampiress, the poor bride who was attacked by the vampiress on her wedding day, the skeleton, the frankenstien's monster, and the gypsy witch). We managed to stay inside our newly added "Blood Cafe" for the most part so as not to scare the poor librarians.

On Friday night, it was double the fun as we were joined by the Devil's mistress, a very scary zombie and an exceedingly creepy ghost. Our little cafe filled with smoke from all the socialization of monsters going on, and we snacked on fingers and eyeballs waiting for our next victim to dare to enter.

On Saturday night, it was a sad yet exciting thing. For it was, in fact, all Hallows Eve itself. And the monsters were ready. That night we were joined by the full moon prisoner himself, the werewolf. We had quite a time keeping him chained up and away from the little children (his favorite snack). But all went well yet again, and we all, sadly, had to part ways at the end of the night. Until next year when we so dearly hope to see YOU walk through the door between worlds and come to visit us.

Pictures of all our scary ghouls and goblins will be up soon, please come visit us at our now very normal and un-haunted library :). Keep on reading!
-Hubbardston Library Spokes-Person