Northeast Regional Library Blog

Suggested Family Activity • Cow 🐄 Appreciation Day Two different national days this week fit perfectly into our animal theme this summer – Cow Appreciation Day today and National I Love Horses Day tomorrow! So, take this time to appreciate the gently mooing creatures that give us great products such as milk and cheese.  And in the case of horses, we honor how they have helped clear fields, worked on farms, served as reliable transportation, Read more…

Suggested Family Activity • National 🐈 Kitten Day Tomorrow, July 10th, is National Kitten Day, the perfect time to celebrate our cute and cuddly kitten friends.  Send us pictures of your best kitty friends at summerreading@nereg.lib.ms.us.  If you do not have a kitty right now but would like one, call or visit your local animal shelter to find the perfect new member of your family.  Many shelters have rules for their adoption process, so check with Read more…

Suggested Family Activity • Art 🎨 Collage The world of children’s literature was saddened recently to lose two wonderful children’s book authors.  Eric Carle brought the natural world to life through such titles as The Very Hungry Caterpillar and A House for Hermit Crab.  His beautiful artwork was made by layering hand-painted and tinted tissue paper together to create colorful images.  Later in life, he created the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amhurst, Read more…

Suggested Family Activity • Painted 🎆🧨 Fireworks With the 4th of July weekend upon us, try out this fun art project with your family to make some painted fireworks:  You’ll need scissors, paper, paint, a plate (a disposable paper plate works great!), and several inner carboard tubes from a roll of toilet paper.  You can also use the inner cardboard roll from paper towels or even wrapping paper, but you will probably want to cut Read more…

Suggested Family Activity • 🦏Zoo 🦍 Cams SUMMER READING EDITION If you can’t make it to a zoo this summer, check out some of the fun Zoo Cams located at many zoos around the U. S.  The nearby Memphis Zoo has live camera feeds on their pandas, hippos, elephants, and flamingos that you can watch any time of the day.  Check it out at www.memphiszoo.org.  The large San Diego Zoo in California has cameras watching Read more…