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December 26, 2023

In the Spotlight

Drop in to The Community Library all week for hot cider, cookies, puzzles, games, coloring, crafts, and of course, reading! Quiet spaces can be found throughout the library, including by

our fireplace. The Lecture Hall will be

set up as a place to gather and be cozy together. We'll also be handing out free hand-knit scarfs. All are welcome!

Tuesday-Saturday, December 26-30

Foyer/Lecture Hall

Drop in any time!

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Make It at the Museum

Come by the Wood River Museum of History + Culture for FREE crafts, fun, and prizes. We're offering four projects

to celebrate history and creativity.

This week: Nature Postcards

Wednesday, December 27

Saturday December 30

Drop in 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Featured in Children's

Drop-in Activities for Kids

The Children's Library is hosting free drop-in craft sessions all week long.

From LEGOS and Play-Doh, to Straws & Connectors, to New Year's hats, kids can stretch their imaginations and have great fun! Please note: Children under the

age of 9 must be accompanied by a teen

(age 14+) or adult caregiver.

Tuesday-Saturday

December 26-30

Times Vary. See Calendar for Details.

This Week at The Library

Drop-in Activity: Let's Build

Tuesday, December 26

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Children's Library

Drop-in Activity: Play-Doh Fun

Wednesday, December 27

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Children's Library

Brown Bag Poetry

Thursday, December 28

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Learning Commons

Drop-in: Straws & Connectors

Thursday, December 28

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Children's Library

Drop-In Craft: New Year Hats

Friday, December 29

Saturday, December 30

Drop in anytime

10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Children's Library

Valley Traditional Music Jams

Saturday, December 30

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall

In Case You Missed It...

Miracle of the Mind

Optimizing Brain Health

with Dr. Karin Lindholm

What are some effective habits we can adopt to maintain and even optimize our brain health?

Dr. Karin Lindholm, Neurologist

at St. Luke’s Wood River, offered some effective habits we

can adopt to maintain and optimize our brain health.

Watch the replay here.

Upcoming Program Highlights

January 1: All locations CLOSED for New Year's Day

January 3: A Tree of Life: Film Screening and Conversation with Gene Moss

January 4: Nature Journaling with Leslie Rego (4-week class)

January 5: Bilingual Story Time

January 6: Wood River Writers' Focused Writing Group

January 10: Paws to Read: Read to a Therapy Dog

January 11: Disinformation, Discord, and Story with David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen

January 15: Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Library, Museum, and Consign CLOSED; Gold Mine Thrift OPEN

January 18: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally Series

January 18: Big Wood River Science with Jim Ambrose

January 20: SVJr. Film Workshop: Short-Form Media Production

January 25: Introduction to Avalanches

January 31: Winter Read Kickoff - The Great Gatsby

See our full calendar of events/register here.

Book Review: Library Staff

"Barbie changed everything. Kids stood in Barbie’s shoes,

and they imagined what they could be..."

Collections Manager, Aly Wepplo, recommends the film Barbie from Warner Bros. Pictures.

This holiday season, I want to recommend the Barbie movie. Maybe you haven’t seen it yet. Maybe you got it the day it came out and have watched it every day since. Either way, or any way in between, you can check out Barbie from The Community Library.

Barbie celebrates the magic of play. It opens with a funny, moving scene of kids playing with dolls before Barbie. These dolls were something to care for, to feed and change and parent.

And then Barbie changed everything. Kids stood in Barbie’s shoes, and they imagined what they could be – a veterinarian, a big sister, an astronaut – Barbie gave kids confidence and ambition to reach for their dreams.

Barbie speaks to adults’ dreams, too. In the movie, America Ferrera (of TV’s Superstore) plays a mom who grew up with Barbie and longs for the sense of possibility it once gave her. She begins sketching ideas for the Barbie hero she needs now, and Barbie Land and the “real” world collide...

Read Aly's entire review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Book Beat: Student Book Review

Hi, my name is Advik. I am in 8th grade. I love to swim, bike, watch TV, and much more. For my Book Beat review, I read Five Survive by Holly Jackson.

Five Survive by Holly Jackson is by far the best mystery book I have ever read. The book takes you on an exhilarating ride of suspense and nail-biting experiences, making it a nonstop read. I started reading Five Survive at night and couldn’t put the book down.

17-year-old Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Red’s best friend, her older brother, his perfect girlfriend, a classmate, and the guy Red wishes was more than a friend.

When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere, not once but twice, they realize this is not an accident. As a man shoots three warning shots, breaking the windows, they realize there is someone out there, someone who clearly wants them dead...

Read Advik's entire book review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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