Experiences To Go: 62 Days of Summer

June 1, 2019 | daviscrl

The Canton Public Library wants to help you make summer the best part of your year. Our Experience to Go Kits for 62 Days of Summer are designed to give you entertaining and informational experiences to help you enjoy your summer to the fullest. We've created a variety of kits to for you to have fun and make memories all summer long.

From June 1st until the end of August, we will have the following kits:

  • Explore Outdoors: Capture summer with a telescope cell phone lens, butterfly net, Nature Connection workbook, and a journal to share your observations.
  • Night Sky: Learn about constellations, planets and more with this fun kit which includes Celestron binoculars, a pocket sized night sky star finder and star field guide.
  • Road Trip: Wipe-clean activity books, travel bingo, board games, and more will make the miles fly by and help everyone enjoy those long summer car trips.
  • Screen-Free Summer: We’ve included a book of activities and games from the pre-screen era, a deck of cards, dice, a notebook, and a bag full of things to do to--screen-free!
  • Summer STEM: Seven days of fun science activities.

 

New OverDrive E-books

April 26, 2019 | daviscrl

Fresh new e-books just waiting for you to download. If you haven't used OverDrive e-books yet, download the Libby app today to get started.

Call it grace [electronic resource] : Finding Meaning in a Fractured World. by Serene Jones
Poisoned pages [electronic resource] : Booktown Mystery Series, Book 12. by Lorna Barrett

Canton Public Library Book Purchase Enrichment Fund

April 26, 2019 | daviscrl

In 2017 the Canton Public Library Book Purchase Enrichment Fund was created through a generous anonymous donation from appreciative readers. This donation enhances our print collection through the purchase of literary fiction and literary genre fiction; or quality narrative nonfiction primarily in the areas of science, social science, the humanities, literary biographies, and history. If you're interested in contributing to the Canton Public Library Book Purchase Enrichment Fund, contact the fund's administrator, the Canton Community Foundation. Following are just a few of the books this thoughtful donation has allowed us to purchase in 2019. To find a complete list of books librarians have purchased with this money, keyword search the terms Book Purchase Enrichment Fund in our catalog.

The atlas of reds and blues : a novel by Devi S. Laskar
The selected works of Abdullah the Cossack : a novel by H. M Naqvi

eBook Big Library Read April 2019

April 1, 2019 | daviscrl

The Big Library Read is a “global eBook club,” connecting readers around the world who read the same eBook at the same time. The 2019 spring selection is:   Homes by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah. This book is the remarkable true story of how a young boy emerged from a war zone and found safety in Canada .   

The Big Library Read runs from April 1 through 15, and during this time OverDrive offers unlimited checkouts on the title. No hold list and no waiting!

Calm Your Winter

March 14, 2019 | daviscrl

Feeling impatient for spring to finally arrive? Pick up one of our Calm Your Winter Experience To Go Kits. Learn to meditate and relax through the end of winter with the kit's how-to book on meditation and relaxing music CD. Tired of the gray Michigan skies? The kit also has a coloring book and pencils for you to add a little color to your life. Stay calm--spring is almost here!

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