Meal and a Movie: The Music Man

This month's Meal and a Movie pick is the 1962 film The Music Man. The program is sponsored by the Senior Advocates and will take place on Monday, January 30, starting at 11:30 am.

Meal and a Movie participants will get to eat a "state fair" type meal followed by a showing of the classic musical.

There is a small charge for the meal and registration is required. If you are interested in attending the program, contact the library for more information.

Come and check out The New Yorker

We have been getting a steady stream of new magazines in at the library and one of the most popular new additions is The New Yorker.

The New Yorker is a weekly magazine that contains essays, cartoons, commentaries, and other articles covering topics from politics to pop culture.

The most recent issue of the magazine can be read here in the library, but any of the older issues can be checked out for three weeks.

Storytime Guest This Week

Join us for a special storytime this week when Gwen Prentice from the DNR will be here to share with us fun and exciting things about the natural world around us. As usual, we will have a craft at the end of the storytime.

Preschool storytime meets on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. and is geared for ages 2-5, but siblings are always welcome.

No registration is required.

Early Out on Thursday

This Thursday we will have another early out program at the library. This week we will be making kazoos out of paper towel rolls and doing "Thumbies" artwork. Thumbies are little critters that you make by stamping your fingerprints on a piece of paper and then drawing in arms and legs to make animals.

The program will last from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm and no registration is required. Parents are responsible for getting their children to and from the library.

More Holiday Hours

The library will be open on Saturday, December 31 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

We will resume our regular hours (noon to 8:00 pm) on Monday, January 2.

No Storytime Until January

Storytime will be taking a little break the last two weeks in December.

There will be no storytime on Tuesday, December 20 or Tuesday, December 27.

We will be back to our regular weekly storytimes on Tuesday, January 3.

Holiday Hours

The library will be open on Saturday, December 24 from 10:00 am -2:00 pm.

We will be closed on Monday, December 26 and open with our regular hours on December 27.

New DVDs at the Library

Our adult DVD collection is officially a year old now! Since we started adding them to the collection, the adult DVDs have checked out over 6,000 times!!

Here are some of the new titles that are available at the library. Make sure to call and place a hold if there is something you want!

30 Minutes or Less
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Cowboys & Aliens
The Debt
Friends with Benefits
The Help
Mr. Popper's Penguins
One Day
Our Idiot Brother
The Smurfs
Zookeeper

Bingo Books On Display

Bingo books for third graders are on display every month at the library. If you need a book for a specific bingo square, we have pulled a selection of books that match this month's topics. They can be found on top of the juvenile nonfiction shelves.

Some of the books need to be read here in the library (those are marked with a colorful sticker on the front) but the other books can be checked out. Some of the topics for December include poetry, sea animals, winter sports, and hibernation.

Feel free to ask someone at the desk if you need help finding a specific book for bingo.

Last Early Out of the Semester!

The last early out program this semester will be on Thursday, December 15, from 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm. We will be making holiday crafts at the library.

Early out activities are open to all Solon students and there is no registration required. Parents are responsible for getting their children to and from the library.

We will have more early out activities next semester, and the schedule should be available to parents very soon.

Tree Auction Ends Saturday at Noon

There are lots of wonderful trees to bid on this year for the Solon Community Habitat for Humanity Tree Contest. If you want to take one of them home, make sure to place your final bids soon. The auction will end officially at noon on Saturday, December 3.

If there is a tree you have to have, you should probably be at the library on that day, since we will not be able to accept any last minute phone bids.

Come and Visit Candyland!

There is a new window display created by the very talented Toni Russo. The theme this time is "Candy Land" and is dedicated to Granny's Store. Come and see all of the delightful confections in this very tasty display.

Candy Land will be up at the library from December 2 through January 14.