The Daily Grin

Whether it’s sick kids or snow, ’tis the season to be stir crazy!  Keep the kids busy for a bit with these great links.

Family Fun: Indoor Games

Kaboose: Winter Games and Activities for Kids

Fisher Price: Play and Learn Family Activities

Scholastic: Best Boredom Busters

The Best Kids Book Site

The Cheshire Public Library is excited to announce new online registrations! Check out our new calendar here.  Upcoming Children’s Department registrations are coming on October 1st.  Direct links to children’s registration forms are available here, and will be live on October 1st.

The Quiet Reading Room on the Upper Level of the library is now ready for use.  All current newspapers and magazines are

located in the Quiet Reading Room (back issues are still located on the Lower Level).

Please enjoy reading, working or relaxing in this new quiet environment!

Do you need a refresher course in technology?

Are you considering purchasing an eBook reader for yourself or a loved one?  Do want to learn how to download free audiobooks, movies and books from the library?  Do you want to take advantage of the library’s genealogy and job searching databases, but don’t know where to start?

Come to “Technology Petting Zoo,” a hands-on demo of some of these devices and resources, hosted by Library Director Ramona Harten.

Mondays: 9/13/2010; 11/22/2010; and 12/13/2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the Mary Baldwin Room at the Cheshire Public Library.  For adults 18+.

Register at www.cheshirelibrary.org, or email tech@cheshirelibrary.org.

Families: please fill out our brief five-question survey about free kid’s movies at CPL.  Thanks for helping us serve you better.

Join us for a different family-friendly movie on Tuesday nights this summer. Movies begin at 6:30, are free to the public, and no registration is required. Here’s what’s playing:

JULY 27 - “Muppet Treasure Island” rated G, (1 hr. 39 min.)

AUG 3 - “Finding Nemo” rated G, (1 hr. 40 min.)

AUG 10 - “Free Willy” rated PG, (1 hr. 52 min.)

AUG 24 - “The Princess and the Frog” rated G, (1 hr. 37 min.)

Readers rejoice!  Registration starts today for our Kids’ Summer Reading Club.  Stop into the Children’s Department anytime this summer to register.

Regular reading over the summer keeps kids from falling back and forgetting 1-3 months worth of school work.  Summer is also the time kids get the freedom to read what they want to read, which is what will really help them to become life-long readers!

Adults can help their kids read by being reading role-models.  So enter our Adult Summer Reading Program by filling out an entry form and a sentence or brief review about the book you read or heard (audiobooks count!)

Got an iPad or other mobile device or phone?  Want to watch video or read books on your laptop? Check out our downloadable collection from OverDrive.  With your Cheshire Public Library card, you have access to thousands of new and classic titles with just a few clicks.

Enjoy!

One of our favorite children’s music performers, Dan Zanes, just won a Parents’ Choice Gold Award for his new album 76 Trombones.

And, bonus, he’s performing a free concert on the New Haven Green Saturday, June 26 at 7pm!  The concert is free and open to the public.  Visit the International Festival of Arts and Ideas for more information.

Check this link to see the Dan Zanes albums we own at CPL.

CPL’s Teen and Children’s Departments are getting excited for summer!  We’ve already started posting many of our summer offerings on our Event Calendar.

One new program this summer will be our Monday Madness activities from 3:00-4:00pm Monday afternoons in July & August.  You can help us get ready by cleaning out those closets!

The Children’s Department will gladly take donations off your hands.  We’re looking for simple Legos (no fancy sets, please), for our Lego Building Afternoon: Mon. August 2nd.  Also, wading pools and bubble wands (or fly swatters, badminton rackets, etc.) for our Bubble Bonanza: Mon. July 26th.  Contact Megan at mhegna @ cheshirelibrary.org or call the Children’s Department 203-272-2245 and press “3″ or ext. 3003.