Happy New School Year!
Are you looking for something to encourage back to school readiness? Or riding the school bus? The library has a great display of children’s back to school books. Stop by and see which ones you may enjoy reading with your little ones. Cheryl has also created a new craft for our Take & Make followers. This month pick up a project bag and make a cute little dog with popsicle sticks. We’d love it if you would share pictures of your kids and completed projects with us for our library’s Facebook page.
Graphic Novel readers, please note that the following are on order and will be available for checkout once released and processed for checkout: The Baby-Sitters Club’s Kristy and the Walking Disaster by Ann M. Martin & Ellen T. Crenshaw; Big Nate’s Remain Calm! by Lincoln Peirce; and The Magic Tree House’s Sunset of the Sabretooth by Mary Pope Osborne, Jenny Laird, Kelly Matthews and Nichole Matthews.
The Friends of the Library will meet on Thursday, September 5th at 5pm at the library.
The Monday Night Book Club will hold their first gathering on September 9th at 6pm at the library. They will discuss “Tom Lake” by Ann Patchett. The book for October’s discussion will be “1984” by George Orwell. We borrow our books through the Northern Waters Library Network of libraries, so there is no need to purchase books. Our list of books and book club dates may be found on our library’s website, https://www.legionmemoriallibrary.org/ If you would like to join, call 715-274-8331 or stop by the library and let us know.
We hope your school year is off to a great start and that we will see you soon at the library.
BOOK REVIEW
In this nonfiction book, different authors write each chapter. Their subject topic is all geared toward various aspects of Earth’s climate change. The chapters can be read in any order the reader wishes.
The book’s title: Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We’ll Win the Climate War by Tom Steyer is referring to the innovations occurring in the ‘Clean Energy’ sector now that will have people using those products instead of fossil fuel products. WHY? Because those clean energy innovations will be cheaper and better and faster than what fossil fuel products can be, so people will naturally move toward those clean energy products. That is quite a leap!
Meanwhile the fossil fuel industries are convinced that today’s status quo is the best way to proceed. (Remind you of tobacco companies?) If we could see as little as 5, 10 years into the future, we would know the best forward path. For today, alert yourself to issues both clean energy and fossil fuel present. Read all or part of this book.