Southern Boone County Public Library

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TAKE-AND-MAKE VISION BOARDS! The New Year is a time for change. You can use a vision board to help visualize the changes you want to accomplish. We’ll provide a limited number of vision board kits and guide you through the process with a step-by-step video, available Jan. 18 on YouTube. Ages 13-adult. Get a kit at any library building or ask for one via curbside. Supplies are limited.

EXCITING NEWS! Starting tomorrow you can register for our brand new winter reading program! Embrace the joys this season holds, including the joy of reading, by participating in our new relaxed winter reading program. Everyone can join in! We’ll suggest ways to enjoy the winter months along with cool reading recommendations on our blogs for adults and kids. Registration begins January 18 at dbrl.org.

Tuesday, 4 p.m., live via Zoom, DBRL fav Patricia Howe returns! At this virtual presentation, she'll show you ways to make your puppets lifelike, and you don't have to be a ventriloquist! If you have a puppet, have it handy. If not, no worries. Ages 6-12. Please register to get a link to this Zoom event.

Are you ready for another year of reading harder? Join us as we kick off our fourth year of the Read Harder challenge. Created by Book Riot, this project encourages you to be a more diverse reader. Whether you're ready to commit or just curious, this virtual meet-up will introduce the 2021 program and show you how to participate. Please register to get a link for this Zoom event happening Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m.!

THURSDAY NIGHT AT 7 P.M. VIA ZOOM, REGISTER NOW! During the recent pandemic shutdowns, many fans rediscovered baseball card collecting or took it up for the first time. Join Brian Johnston, a collector with 30 years of experience, as he talks about why collecting is a great hobby. Brian will offer tips for new collectors and much more! All ages and levels of experience are welcome. Please register to get a link to this online presentation. If you can't watch live, look for the recording on our YouTube channel, available until Dec. 24.

Grab your library card and melt into this playlist on Freegal--you can stream it for free and with ZERO ads. It has Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Aretha Franklin and many more. Enjoy! Listen online here https://bit.ly/36SSWic or download the FREE mobile app and listen.

Whether he's counting monsters, fixing spaceships or swimming in peanut butter, Dino O’Dell's interactive songs and tall tales will engage your curiosity and inspire your imagination. Dino is a former teacher and an award-winning musician. Families.

**Spoiler Alert** You may want to get up and move to one of our favorite chants after you read this book. Clap and move along with Hilary and Dana as they show you the motions to The Banana Chant.

It’s a new year, and we’ve got plenty of exciting new children's books to tell you about!

Dino will do a quick test to ensure everything is good to go for the real deal at 11 a.m.

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection. Click on the website links to see the trailers.

Enjoy juggling, mimed stories, sign language and more goodies from Jay and Leslie’s big bag of tricks in our latest Laughing Matters video. Kids will have great fun helping Leslie predict what shape and color pattern come next in M is for Mystery. 25 minutes. Suggested for preschoolers-first graders.

Do you have a friend or family member struggling with memory loss, dementia or a neurodegenerative disease? Daniel Boone Regional Library offers a Memory Care collection of books selected to help you learn more while supporting your loved one.

Don't forget we have robots you can checkout when you're running out of stuff to do. http://ow.ly/XIM250CJgR0

Join us for a quick virtual story time! Enjoy a story and a rhyme geared toward birth to 36 months. This week we present "Jingle Jingle" by Nicola Smee with permission from Sterling Publishing.

DBRL fan-fav returns tomorrow live at 11 a.m. right here on Facebook! Hit the reminder button to get a notification when the show is about to start!

Don’t you hate it when, on a winter evening, you yawn and stretch, wondering if you’ve stayed up way past your bedtime because it’s been dark forever, but the clock tells you it’s only 6:30? What to do with all of those long hours of darkness? The obvious answer is to lose yourself in a good story. Quick, breezy reads are for summer. Now is the season to crack open those deep, rich novels that span several hundred pages.

Still ironing out some minor streaming kinks to ensure a perfect show with Dino on Wednesday, Dec. 16 at 11 a.m.

Uncle Fumpernutter is scheduled to perform a magic show, but when no one can find him, his nephew Tommy Terrific takes over! Since Tommy has never done magic before, he must rely on the Magician’s Handbook and ask for a lot of audience support. The magic works, but in wacky ways. This video performance from Tommy Terrific offers laugh-out-loud comedy and sensational magic that encourages kids to have fun with books. Ages 4-12 will enjoy this video.

Join us for a quick virtual story time! Enjoy a story and a rhyme geared toward ages 3-5. This week we present "What Does an Anteater Eat?" by Ross Collins with permission from Penguin Random House. This book is one of the 10 Missouri Building Block Award nominees. Vote for your favorite at https://forms.gle/sLUfNfMYgjjnASnu8.

People are experiencing digital fatigue. So, I humbly offer up a suggestion for a new tradition: letter writing. Personal letters have fallen out of fashion, to be replaced by emails, picture postcards and family newsletters, especially around the holidays. And those are great ways to keep in touch, but there’s something special about a handwritten letter.

Create a 2021 calendar with your child using handprint art and more. We'll provide the calendar pages, binding and paint. You'll provide the fun. Can't make it to the library? Check out our kid's blog for a printable 2021 calendar. Ages birth-7. One per child. Limited supply available at all library branches or ask staff for one when you call the curbside pickup number after you arrive.