Have you enrolled in the Summer Reading Program for children, teens, and adults? You can enroll on the library website - www.calcasieulibrary.org or at your local library. Using a username and password of your choosing, you log in the books that you have read. Once you have read the required 10 books, you will be eligible for coupons to local businesses, a certificate of completion, your name in the grand prize drawing as well as the red "Library Champion Lives Here!" yard sign. You have until Friday, July 16 to have read your books and inputted them in the computer.
Story Times are Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m; 2:00 p.m; and 6:30 p.m. and Thurdays at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Kindergarten and Younger are downstairs in the Children's area and 1st Grade and Older are upstairs in the DeBakey Meeting Room. When we have special guests, we are all together in the Children's Area.
Our Tween S.W.A.M.P. Readers met on Fridays at 10:00 a.m. in the DeBakey Meeting Room. Every Monday, we start registering for that Friday's program. You can call 721-7117 or come to the Children's Desk to register. It is limited to the first 20 kids.
On Tuesday, July 6 at 10:00 a.m. Come be blown away by Mr Roger Erickson from the National Weather Service. He will be talking about clouds, storms, and weather in general.
On Thursday, July 8 at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., The Young Adult Taleweavers troupe will be acting out skits, plays, and poems.
On Tuesday, July 12 at 2:00 p.m., Ms Dianna from Calcasieu Parish Animal Services will be here talking about pet care. After story time, you will be able to take a walk on the Animal Services bus to see some of the animals that are currently up for adoption at the Animal Services Office.
On Tuesday, July 12 at 6:30 p.m., those loveable therapy dogs will be here to listen to kids read to them. Come have fun with Fideaux.
On Thursday, July 15 at 2:00 p.m., prepare for the invasion. Story time will be taken over by the Lake Charles Buccaneers. They will read books, talk pirates, and hand out booty gold before leaving the building.
On Friday, July 16 at 1:30 p.m., Come relax with us while we watch a classic adventure story about a family who is shipwrecked on a deserted island. How will they survive? Are they really alone?
On Friday, July 23 at 1:30 p.m., Wii challenge all takers to a game of Wii Bowling. If there is a line to play, we have board games, computers, the SmartTable, as well as legos.
On Thursday, July 29 at 10:00 a.m., Kuniko will be here for our End of Summer Party. She combines Japanese folktales, folk songs, original masks, origami, highly stylized movements and a touch of magic into her performance. Her stories, which portray the culture and moral perspective of Japan, are from the oldest Japanese book of Kojiki. Kuniko is wonderful entertainment for the whole family. This performance is supported by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council as administered by The Arts and Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana.
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