Cathy recommends: Penguin and Pinecone by Salina Yoon
Genre: Picture book
Reading Level: Preschool
Summary: Friendships can spring up at any time, but what happens when one friend moves away?
Cathy says: It’s a sweet story of caring and dealing with physical separation of two friends. It also looks at the affects of the passage of time on each of the friends.
This title is available at Tyler Free Library.
Throughout the month of February, purchase a raffle ticket to enter our drawing! This year there are 28 prizes to potentially win, from gift cards to themed baskets to accessories. All the prizes are donated by local businesses and friends of the library, so you’ll be supporting your community!
Each ticket is $10, and one ticket can win multiple times. Come to either Tyler Free Library or Foster Public Library anytime from now to February 28 to buy your ticket. Winners will be contacted as soon as the drawing has taken place. Good luck!
Audrey recommends: Piglettes by Clémentine Beauvais
Genre: Contemporary fiction
Reading level: YA
Summary: Three teenagers, brought together by an “ugliest girl in school” contest, make a plan to bike across the country and gate-crash the President of France’s garden party.
Audrey says: The eponymous “three little piglettes,” Mireille, Astrid, and Hakima, are unexpectedly brought together by their classmate’s unofficial “ugliest girl in school” poll. The girls become fast friends, and quickly learn that they each have a reason to disrupt the Bastille Day garden party in Paris. They retrofit an old pickup into a bike-powered food truck and fund their trip by selling homemade sausages on the way. The character interactions are fantastic, the situations are hilarious, and the development that each girl goes through to reach Paris is full of heart. Mireille is the most sarcastic unreliable narrator of all time and it makes an already great story even better.
This title is available at Foster Public Library.
Kids and teens are welcome to join our ongoing campaign! All materials are provided, just bring a character to play and ideas for their adventures.
The next session will take place on February 24 at 5pm at Tyler Free Library. Message adubois@fosterlibraries.org or use our online form to sign up.
Cathy recommends: The Night Guest by Hildur Knutsdottir (translated by Mary Robinette Kowal)
Genre: Psychological thriller
Reading level: Adult
Summary: One woman’s search for the cause of her chronic fatigue leads to answers she cannot accept.
Cathy says: The reader is brought in with concern for the protagonist’s common malady. One can’t help but follow, with increasing horror, her journey to the shocking conclusion.
This title is available at Tyler Free Library.
Join Miss Millie and Miss Audrey on February 7 AND February 14 to make cards for your loves ones while listening to children’s stories. Message adubois@fosterlibraries.org, submit our online form, or call the library to sign up.
Australia is home to many unique animals, many of which are rare ancestors of today’s mammals! Marsupials and monotremes are examples of amazing creatures from this remote continent. Australia is also home to many venomous inhabitants. This program highlights who can be found there!
This program takes place at our weekly homeschool club on February 12 at 1pm. Sign up by calling the library or using this form.
On Tuesday, January 23 at 6pm, join us at Foster Public Library to create works of art using rustic wood slices. All materials are provided. Space is limited; call the library to register or sign up online.
Build a whole world in a tiny ornament! These decorative winter scenes will brighten your home year after year. All materials are provided. Space is limited; call the library to register or sign up online.
Join our weekly homeschool club for a special program with Animal Rescue RI! On January 15 at 1pm, we will learn all about dinosaurs from Jane Deming. Sign up by calling the library, emailing us at info@fosterlibraries.org, or using our online form.
