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Making Eskimos at Family Place

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Making Eskimos at Family Place

Brrrr...it's cold outside and at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library, we're celebrating this cold weather by making Eskimos! Family Place is a program for children ages birth-3 years. If you'd like to join us, call to register and stop by...
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Making Parakeets at the Library!

This week, children at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library read Peek-a-Pet! by Marie Torres Cimarusti. It was fun to read a book that made us play peek-a-boo with different pets that we know! One of the pets in the story...
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Pete the Cat: Our Mascot!

We Love Pete the Cat and this year he is the mascot for our Winter Reading Club! Pete enjoys rocking in his school shoes, and so do we. Have you signed up for the Winter Reading Club? If not, it's...
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New York City Bus Trip with the Friends of the Scranton Public Library

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="427"] Columbia University Libraries[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="459"] The Cathedral of St. John the Divine[/caption]   The Friends of the Scranton Public Library will be hosting a New York City Bus Trip on April 25, 2015.  The...
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Stay Warm with a Good Book

It's chilly outside and children at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library know a good place to stay warm - the library! This week at Family Place we read a story about mittens. We all wear mittens to keep warm in...
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O is for Owl!

. We're learning the alphabet through reading at story time this school year and now we're on the letter "O". Each Friday we learn a new letter, read stories that relate to that letter, and then do a craft using...
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Fun at the Library!

[caption id="attachment_8071" align="alignleft" width="300"] Going through the tunnel at Family Place![/caption] . . Come and join us for Family Place at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library. We meet on select Wednesdays at 10AM. Each time we meet we have a...
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Snow Happy at Story Time

It's always a good day when we have story time at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library. Last week, we were "snow happy". At story time, we read stories about the winter season and used glitter to make fancy snowflakes.  ...
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LEGO Club: The Tower Continues to Grow

. The LEGO Club at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library has been working very hard each and every month to build the most unique creations. A few months ago a tower emerged as a result of our hard work. Every...
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Snow is falling…books are calling!

 See photos from Family Place! In celebration of the snow we're getting, children at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library made snowman puppets! Check it out.  
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