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Click here for more details about
Summer Reading Club requirements
for all ages.
Please be sure to thank our sponsors
for their much needed support, including the Alvarado City
Council.
Summer Reading Program schedule for 2008:
(At the end of each program we will have door prize
drawings.)
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June 4th - 3:00 p.m. Wildlife
On the Move presents The Unhuggables!
All the critters you thought you hated! This
program generally includes large hissing cockroaches, creepy tarantulas,
slithery snakes, and other various reptiles and invertebrates that might
be on hand. You might win a fake snake in our
weekly drawing. |
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June 11th - 3:00 p.m.
Twice Upon a Time presents
What's Bugging You? and BYOB! -
Bring Your Own Bugs to be identified.
Learn about and look at some very
special bugs you might not have seen before.
You might win some creepy plastic bugs in our weekly drawing. |
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Special Time -
Morning Program!!!
June 18th -
10:30 a.m. Whirled
On a String -
See 2006 World Champion Female Top Spinner, Valerie Oliver present a
demonstration of
fun & science with yo-yos, spinning tops & gyroscopes. Bring your yo-yo
& learn some new tricks!
You might win a
yo-yo in our weekly drawing.
June 18th - 3:00 p.m. -
Special Time - Showing of
The Water Horse Legend of the Deep
- Read the book and see the movie!
We will be raffling off 4 water toys at the end of the movie. |
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June 25th -
3:00 p.m.
Tako the Clown and His Marionettes -
a Bi-lingual Circus show you will never forget including an Historical
Mexican Toy Collection!
Will you win a wooden toy in our weekly drawing? |
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July 2nd - 3:00 p.m.
The Critterman
presents Extra Furry!
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Features a Leopard Tortoise,
Domestic Rabbit, Giant Millipede,
Hedgehog, Prairie
Dog, Sugar Glider,
Marine Toad, and a Ferret.
Will you win a stuffed furry critter in our weekly drawing? |
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July
9th -
3:00 p.m. Twice upon a Time Storytellers present
Strings & Things -
Watch demonstrations on how to make things with string and how to make
other "low tech" toys with easy to find materials. Listen to
entertaining stories about these toys from the past.
Will you win a "low-tech" toy in our weekly drawing? |
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July 16th -
3:00 p.m. Dinomania! -
Dinomania includes magic, music, puppets, games, storytelling comedy,
audience participation and fun all centered around different dinosaurs!
Baby Dinosaur the wise cracking dinosaur puppet will lead a rock and
roll band with music and singing.
You might win a
toy dinosaur in our weekly drawing. |
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July 23rd - 3:00 p.m. Zooniversity - Snuggle up with
fur and more fur and learn about these warm-blooded wonders. Learn about
phylum characteristics, unique habitats, adaptive anatomy, feeding, defense
and weird animal behaviors. You might win a
toy animal in our weekly drawing.
*Today is the deadline to submit
book tracker forms for our Summer Reading Clubs. |
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July 30th
- 3:00 p.m. Special Program for Awards Day! Puppeteer/Magician Brett
Roberts presents - A Celebration of Stories! This
fast paced performance has puppets and magic to illustrate wild and
whacky stories. This is more than just a magic show. It’s more than just
a puppet show. And, it’s more than just story telling. It’s a
celebration!
After the program
we will be handing
out reading awards, certificates, coupons and prizes to our Adult,
Juvenile and Teen Reading Club participants! |
"You are listening to
Summertime from Porgy & Bess by George Gershwin.
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