Children's Update: Lake Jackson

During preschool storytimes in August, children listened to stories about rodeos and armadillos and learned how to read and design cattle brands. Beginning this month, we’ll start a new year-long theme – Be a Contrary Kid – and discuss the letters of the alphabet in no particular order.

The Domino’s Pizza Toss and Show was a great success for the second year with more than 100 people attending. There was pizza dough and cornmeal everywhere as everyone tried their hand at pizza making. After the program, pizza was provided for everyone. Thanks Domino’s!

The last scheduled program of the summer was the annual Flip-Flop Fling and Watermelon Bash. Everyone won coupons from Papa John’s Pizza, McDonald’s, El Chico, Skating America and Fuddruckers. We spent the day reading, watching films, playing games and doing crafts. Chips and dip where provided by El Chico, and H.E.B provided the watermelon. Thank you to all those who donated items!

Clowns! Clowns! Clowns! was a free special program presented by the Coastal Confetti Clown Alley of Brazoria County. The Center for the Arts and Sciences donated the use of the music theater, and tickets were printed and distributed to children at the Clute and Lake Jackson branches. Almost 100 people attended the program. Thank you to the Center for donating the performance space!

Local artist Barbara Feiner taught an altered books workshop. An altered book is a mixed-media art form that incorporates collage, painting, stamping and other decoration to create a work of art from an existing book. She displayed several of her own pieces and showed attendees how to achieve different kinds of effects in their own work. Ms. Feiner generously provided attendees with fabric scraps, paints, metal objects and stamps, along with support and inspiration as they created their own pieces of art from donated board books. Fifteen adults and teens took part in the day-long event. The library plans to have another altered book program in the coming months. Thank you, Ms. Feiner, for a wonderful program!

The Readers Circle and the Bookaneers will begin meeting again in September.

Our clerk, Jessica, completed the bulletin board display in the children’s area. She has been working on this project since May trying to find book characters for each letter of the alphabet. Nice job!



Susan, children's librarian