Kathie getting ready for Crazy Hat Day.

All next week, join the CPL staff in dressing fun, and earn badges during the last week of Connect Your Summer too! Just come to the library in spirit-appropriate attire on the following days:

Create a beautiful scrapbook the digital way. Bring a flash drive with a few of your pictures to play with, or instructor Dawn Montagano will have plenty for you to do. This is cutting edge scrapping with beautiful results. Join us on June 30 at 7:00PM in the Internet Lab. Registration is required as space is limited.

If you're looking for books and more about dreaming, check out the following:

Active dreaming: journeying beyond self-limitation to a life of wild freedom by Robert Moss

The secret history of dreaming by Robert Moss

Dreaming souls: sleep, dreams, and the evolution of the conscious mind by Owen Flanagan

10,000 dreams interpreted by Gustavus Hindman Miller

The art of dreaming: tools for creative dream work by Jill Mellick; foreword by Marion Woodman

Dream girl by Lauren Mechling

Dream factory by Brad Barkley & Heather Hepler

Dream journal by Karen Halvorsen Schreck

Dream spinner by Bonnie Dobkin

The dream bearer by Walter Dean Myers

Teen dream jobs: how to get the job you really want now! by written by Nora E. Coon

Alex Fitzgerald's cure for nightmares by Kathleen Krull; illustrated by Wendy Edelson

Another day in the Milky Way by David Milgrim

Ben's dream: story and pictures by Chris Van Allsburg

The Berenstain bears and the bad dream by Stan & Jan Berenstain

The BFG by Roald Dahl; pictures by Quentin Blake

The boy in the garden by written and illustrated by Allen Say

Since we have distributed our limit for passes this year, the 2012 Park and Read program at CPL is over.

The Michigan DNR Park and Read program allows library cardholders the ability to check out a one-day pass into any Michigan state park or recreation area in lieu of the $6 resident daily motor vehicle entrance permit. Many parks will also have a hammock available at no charge for Park and Read participants to borrow while on-site for the day so they can fully enjoy a great book in Michigan's great outdoors.

Park and Read passes are available for one week at a time and cannot be renewed.

Children's programs

• Dear Dumb, Dork and Wimpy Diaries — July 7, 2:00-2:45PM

Tween programs

• Dear Dumb, Dork and Wimpy Diaries — July 7, 2:00-2:45PM
• Memory Box — July 28, 10:00-10:45AM

Teen programs

• Creative Writing, Discovering Your Inner Voice from 10:00-11:15AM on:
  • June 25
  • July 9
  • July 23
  • August 6
  • August 13

Adult programs

• Your Pecha Kucha — July 27, 7:00-8:30PM
• Adults Writing Children's Lit Group — July 16 and August 27, 2:00-3:00PM
• Adult Writer's Group — July 28 and August 25, 6:00-7:00PM

Interested in writing fiction, all types of media or genres, for an adult audience? Join us on Thursday, June 23rd from 6:00-7:00PM for our Adult Fiction Writers' Group.
Dave Richards, a library assistant and a freelance writer for the Eisner Award winning website, Comic Book Resources, moderates. Dave has completed an unpublished science fiction mystery novel and is currently writing a horror novel.