Lots of great things coming up in the month of March:

A showing of High School Musical 2 the first Friday in March, for which I’m expecting a big turnout.  (Please, please, please, please DO call ahead to pre-register!  It’s hard to buy enough popcorn if I don’t know you’re coming!) 

Scott Jameson will be coming to the library the evening of March 13 for an encore performance of “Magic by Scott Jameson,” the show that brought down the house last May. 

Prior to Scott’s magic show, he will conduct a Juggling Workshop for a limited group of twelve children aged nine or older, teaching them first how to work with one ball, and working up to juggling three balls by the end of the workshop.  (And hopefully the children’s librarian can hide her eye-hand coordination challenged self at the back of the room during the workshop…)

An additional Mother Goose on the Loose storytime has been added on Wednesday mornings, run by Jen.

This month’s book group books are as follows:  Airborn by Kenneth Oppel for the Teen (7th – 9th grade) Group; Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen for the Teen (10th – 12th grade) Group; Being Teddy Roosevelt by Claudia Mills for the 3rd grade group; Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt for the 5th grade group; and The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke for the 6th grade group.  (You’ll notice a switch to classic and modern classic for the 5th and 6th graders for this month.  This is to ensure a good read with a great book, and also we’ll be doing some in-group comparisons of the book and movie versions, viewing certain scenes together on my laptop, then reading the relevant passages in the book for a direct compare and contrast.)

And a new session of Toddler Storytime will begin on the 24th, with sign-ups starting on the 3rd.  This has become my favorite program, and I’m eager to see who registers for the March-April-May session.

Not to forget the terrific ongoing teen volunteer-run Saturday Storytimes and Thursday Game Hour.  Both of these programs have steady, enthusiastic attendance, and I am so grateful to the amazing volunteers who come through week after week to run them.

March is looking good, don’t you think?