Friday, July 17 • Suggested Family Activity Have a Fairy Tale Family Dance Party to wrap up Summer Reading Program 2020! Dress up as your favorite fairy talecharacter, put on your family’s favorite music and dance the night away! Set the mood with soundtracks from the Disney movies, introduce your Read more…
Thursday, July 9 • Suggested Family Activity Many fairy tales wouldn’t be complete without a ferocious (or sometimes not so ferocious) fire-breathing dragon. Make dragon eggs out of PlayDough or a similar craft dough or decorate plain Easter eggs with paint, stickers or glitter pens. For another dragon inspired craft, Read more…
Summer Reading Program Participant Photos Week Three
For a simple gardening craft, help your child grow a bean in a cup. Read a version of “Jack and the Beanstalk” while you’re waiting for it to grow! Draw or print out a picture of a castle in the clouds and tape to the end of a wooden skewer. Read more…
Suggested Family Activity for Wednesday, July 1 Make a life-sized castle for your children to play in by using a combination of empty cardboard boxes, tables and chairs covered with blankets and quilts. Make if comfy with pillows and more blankets or throws. Have Story Time of your own inside Read more…
Our Summer Reading Program Week Two Packets are available for pickup all week! Pull in and call and we’ll bring them out to your car! Watch Debora Waz from the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science talk about Mississippi’s creatures, then follow along with our instructional video to make a Dragon Read more…
Curbside Pickup and Summer Reading Packets Curbside pickup is now available at most locations. Curbside copy and fax services are also available. Call ahead to your local branch for reservations. During Summer Reading Program we will be sharing daily Suggested Family Activities. Click here for today’s Suggested Family Activity.
COVID-19 can’t stop Summer Reading Program! Summer Reading Goes Virtual Our libraries are still closed but that doesn’t mean we’ve given up on Summer Reading! We invite you to join the Northeast Regional Library and our 13 branches this summer as we journey through the worlds of fairy tales and Read more…
THE APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING The 50th Anniversary ofthe Apollo 11 Moon Landingis Saturday, July 20, 2019 Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July Read more…
Mississippi’s Summer Library Programs Mississippi Library Commission Libraries across Mississippi serve their communities by offering outstanding programming throughout the summer months for all ages. The Mississippi Library Commission is proud to provide assistance to libraries as they strive to better serve their patrons