NATIONAL COMIC BOOK DAY “Writing a comic book series, you’re so reliant on whoever the artist is.  It truly is collaboration.” -James Gunn

Be sure to update the library with your final reading point count.  The final Reading Medals will be awarded and fun prizes will be drawn for.

NATIONAL ZOO AWARENESS DAY “Zoos remind us that we share the Earth with other creatures , each with their own needs and ways of being.” -Virginia McKenna

NATIONAL BEACH DAY “To escape and sit quietly on the beach-that’s my idea of paradise.” -Emilia Wickstead

INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS DAY “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” -John F. Kennedy

RAKSHA BANDHAN DAY “Raksha Bandhan is Sanskrit for “the bond of protection, obligation, or care.”  This is a special day celebrated in the Hindu tradition that recognizes the special bond between brothers and sisters.  Sisters of all ages tie a talisman or amulet, called the rakhi, around the wrists of their brothers.  The sisters symbolically…

WORLD LAKE DAY “A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature.  It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” -Henry David Thoreau

NATIONAL DOG DAY “Dogs are our link to paradise.  They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.  To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring-it was peace.” -Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel

You are welcome to bring your own camp chair, snacks, and beverage.  The library will supply popcorn.