Children's Book Drive

Alexandria Bookshelf (ABS) needs your gently used books!Every holiday season, Alexandria Bookshelf, one of the many community outreach projects of the DreamDog Foundation, gives out thousands of books to children in Alexandria. You may have seen these books in your own homes – they have a sticker on them advertising our program. Now in our 3rd year, ABS has more than 200,000 books out in Alexandria on more 35 bookshelves around the community, in schools, recreation centers and in the city’s housing authorities.
This holiday season, we’re asking for your help in filling Alexandria homes with fantastic children’s books, often for kids who don’t own books of their own. ABS is getting books in the "Hands, Homes and Hearts of ALL Children! Thank you for helping make that possible!
Please clean out your children’s bookshelves and donate gently used books at one of the following locations:
Hooray for Books at 1555 King Street in Old Town.Mt. Vernon Rec Center in Del Ray at 2701 Commonwealth Ave.UpCycle at in Del Ray at 1712 Mt. Vernon Avenue (2nd floor)CrossFit by the water in Old Town at 805 North Royal Street.31 E. Masonic View Ave.Or 23 W. Myrtle St.
This is a win-win – you get to make space in your homes just in time for the holidays. And our city’s kids get to experience the joy that comes with a really good read.Questions? Want to volunteer this holiday season? Email jesswehrman@yahoo.com

Storage Needed for Titan Expo Books

FROM TC PTSA:

Titan Expo Book Storage Help

Seeking a storage location for donations to the Titan Expo Used Book Sale. Do you have a dry space in a basement or garage that will accommodate boxes of books that we collect during the year to be sold at the Titan Expo in May? Storage space in ACPS facility is not available any longer. Please contact Michael Quint atmquint3820@gmail.com if you can help or can suggest a solution!

Favorite Christmas Reading

Our all time favorites are:

And a few of the others we like to read over and over:

Halloween Reading

FROM THE ARCHIVES:

Some books for you and your child --

picture books

The Littlest Pumpkin

Wee Witches Halloween

Ten Timid Ghosts

Scary, Scary Halloween 

In the Haunted House

The 13 Nights of Halloween

BIG Pumpkin

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

Rattlebone Rock

The Halo-Weiner

On Halloween Night

The Perfectly Horrible Halloween

The Teeny Tiny Ghost

There was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat

I'm Not Afraid of This Haunted House

The Pumpkin Fair

Two Little Witches

Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet

One Witch

Miss Fiona's Stupendous Pumpkin Pie

for beginner or early readers --- 

The Ghoul Brothers

Ready Freddy

Horrible Harry

Nate The Great

The Best/Worst Halloween Ever

The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches

Creepy Crawly Critters

Fluffy

Summer Reading

Thought I'd share some great reading that I enjoyed this summer.


These are the books I read on my iPad.

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Last Friends by Jane Gardham
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel

And these are the real, hold in your hand books, that I read.

 

 

"It's Raining Books" book Sale in April

The Friends of the Beatley Central Library, Alexandria, VA announce their annual Spring Book Sale:  "IT'S RAINING BOOKS, HALLELUJAH!"  Opens at the Library with Members Only Preview (Memberships available at door) Thursday, April 19, 4:00 - 8:30PM. Continues Friday, April 20, 10:00AM - 5:30PM & Saturday, April 21, 10:00AM - 4:30PM.  Closes Sunday, April 22, 1:00 - 4:30PM.  All fiction genres; history/politics; business/economics; biography/memoir; extensive children's books selection; humor; travel; the arts; vintage books; science/nature; home/garden; sports; foreign language; reference.  Prices: paperbacks - $1; most hardbacks - $3.  The Charles E. Beatley Central Library, 5005 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA  22304; 703-746-1702;www.alexandria.lib.va.us.

 

Books for Kids for the month on January

Here is a list of books that are appropriate for the Winter months.

The Mitten

Tacky

Mr. Poppers Penguins

I Like it When

Flip & Flop

Polar Bear Night

No Bath for Boris

Ralph's Frozen Tail

Little Mo

Getting Ready for Halloween

Some books for you and your child --

picture books

The Littlest Pumpkin

Wee Witches Halloween

Ten Timid Ghosts

Scary, Scary Halloween 

In the Haunted House

The 13 Nights of Halloween

BIG Pumpkin

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

Rattlebone Rock

The Halo-Weiner

On Halloween Night

The Perfectly Horrible Halloween

The Teeny Tiny Ghost

There was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat

I'm Not Afraid of This Haunted House

The Pumpkin Fair

Two Little Witches

Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet

One Witch

Miss Fiona's Stupendous Pumpkin Pie

for beginner or early readers --- 

The Ghoul Brothers

Ready Freddy

Horrible Harry

Nate The Great

The Best/Worst Halloween Ever

The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches

Creepy Crawly Critters

Fluffy 

Elementary School Reading List

Books for young, elementary school, children  
(in no particular order)

Picture Books 

Going to Sleep on the Farm
Time for Bed
Sheep in a Jeep
Each Peach, Pear, Plum
The Sign Maker’s Assistant
Do You See A Mouse?
Maxi the Hero (and others)
Piggy Pie
Is Your Mama a Llama
I’m Going to Like Me
Leo the Late Bloomer
The Caboose Who Go Loose
Alexander and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Ms. Malarkey Doesn’t Live in Room 10
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (and others)
Miss Rumphius
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
Dear Mrs. LaRue, Letters from Obedience School
Little Bear by Martin Waddell (and others)
Quick as a Cricket
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry & The Big Hungry Bear
The Napping House
My Friend Bear by Jez Alborough (series)
No Jumping on the Bed by Ted Arnold (and others)
It’s Hard Being 5
A Grand Old Tree
You Are Special by Max Lucado
Three Trees
 
Classics:
Caps for Sale
Little Red Hen
Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel
Blueberries for Sal
Stone Soup
The Five Chinese Brothers
Tiki-Tiki Tembo
Henny Penny
The Little Engine that Could
 
Favorite Authors
Boynton
Jan Bredt
Eric Carle
Dr. Seuss
Tomie DePaola
Patricia Polacco
David Shannon
Mem Fox
Tom Paxton
Shirley Hughes
Beverly Cleary
Shel Silverstein
 
Reader series:
Little Bear
Biscuit
Ready Freddy
Flat Stanley
Magic Treehouse
Hank Zipzer

What are you reading?

So what is everyone reading this summer?

Here are some suggestions - fiction that I've recenlty read, my book club has read, people are talking about or that has been recommended to me:

Feel free to add your recommendation(s) as a comment. 

Sinners and Saints by Edna O'Brien

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Room by Emma Donahough
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
In the Company of Others by Jan Karon
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
There is No Year, by Blake Butler
Toward You, by Jim Krusoe
The London Train by Tessa Hadley
My New American Life, by Francine Prose
The Free World, by David Bezmozgis
Last Night at the Lobster by Steward O'Nan
Emily, Alone by Steward O'Nan
Rodin's Debutante, by Ward Just
The Tiger's Wife, by Tea Obreht
Lord of Misrule, by Jaimy Gordon
The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Fifth Witness, by Michael Connelly
The Lincoln Lawyer, by Michael Connelly