LeClaire Community Library in historic Le Claire Iowa at the Mississippi River and Interstate 80 with 7 public access computers and wireless Internet

Dinosaur Coloring Contest From April 29-May 20, 2013 LeClaire Library children’s department will be holding a coloring contest to get ready for our Summer Reading Program theme—Dig Into Reading!

Stop on by the library and pick up one of our dinosaur coloring sheet (OR DOWNLOAD THE SHEET BY CLICKING HERE*) and start decorating! Participants can use any medium of their choosing such as crayons, colored pencils, paint, strips of paper—whatever! All submissions will be displayed in the library and one lucky winner from three different age groups will be awarded a dinosaur book! One entry per child and the age groups will be 1-3 years, 4-7 years, and 8-12 years. Winners announced on May 24, 2013.

Contact the children services librarian, Jillian Flahaven, at jflahaven@leclaireiowa.gov with any questions.

WINTER READING PROGRAM! A fun way to make winter go quickly! Visit the LeClaire Community Library and pick up a BINGO card to participate in this year’s Winter Reading Program, running during the month of January. Complete an activity on the card and cross it off. Cross off five boxes in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to complete a BINGO. For each BINGO you complete, you win a prize! Turn your BINGO card in at the circulation desk before February 8th to be entered in the Grand Prize Drawing!
Dates to Remember:

December 26th - BINGO Cards available for pickup at the library
January 1st-January 31st - Complete Activities on your BINGO Card
February 8th - Final Day to submit BINGO cards for the Grand Prize Drawing

Toddle Time @
LeClaire Community Library
Fridays at 10:30 A.M.
NO TODDLE TIME AGAIN UNTIL January 4th

This new program is designed to meet the developmental stages of our smallest story-time friends (birth- 3yrs). The Friday sessions will encourage a love a reading through shorter stories, more songs and finger-play activities especially suited to this younger age group.

We will continue to offer Family Story-time on Tuesday evenings at 6:30 pm,
which will be suited to older children (age 3 and older), featuring longer stories, action rhymes and crafts appealing to a broader age range.

ALL young children are most welcome to attend either session. Parents/Caregivers are the best judge of which program style suits their own child’s developmental stage.

If you have any questions about this change, please feel free to talk to Miss Jillian, or email her at jflahaven@leclaireiowa.gov .

Summer Reading Program 2012

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Summer Reading Program this year!

The TumbleBook Library is a collection of animated, talking picture books with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), TumbleTV which consists of pre-set playlists of a sequence of books, and Tumble Puzzles & Games.

Good Websites for Kids:

American Library Association's Great Websites for Kids

Ask Jeeves for Kids- General Reference

Awesome Library- Great Reference Site

Class Brain for Kids- PK through 3rd Grade

eNature- Info on Wild Animals & Plants

Fact Monster- from InformationPlease (Dictionary, Almanac, Encyclopedia & Thesaurus)
Information on States from Class Brain.com - Profiles of the U.S. States