Storytimes will be stopping next week until July.

There will be work done in the children’s room, the week of May 18, to fix the air conditioning unit. There will be no air conditioning, the work will be noisy, and the conditions dangerous enough that we’ll have part of the room roped off.  Dropping in to get materials is fine, but I discourage longer visits until the construction is finished.

Today we read 2 books about construction:

And then I read 2 books with bears, since the Teddy Bear Concert is this Saturday.  The concert will be held at the Town Common at 10:30.  Our musical guests will be Ben Rudnick and Friends.

Our Dads and Donuts storytime was very busy.  Tomorrow is Mother’s Day.  There is an excavator on the grounds of the library tearing down a building.  And we paraded over to Chelmsford Center to view a duck race after the storytime.

I knew I had to read 3 books to cover all these events.

Officer Michael, a policeman in Chelmsford, helped us cross the street to go to the duck race, just as officer Michael does in Make Way for Ducklings.  He was very happy to do it, and I loved that he had the same name.

To celebrate the spring sunshine, this week’s Wednesday and Friday preschool storytimes featured books and songs about the color yellow.

Next week (May 11-15) will be our last week of storytimes before we take a break to gear up for summer, so we hope to see everyone at the library for stories, songs, and fun! Summer storytimes will begin on July 1.

The end of April had us thinking about summer fun, so we read a story about going to the beach!

Then we read a story about colors.  It’s a bit of a mystery, too– who said red, and why?