The Ardmore Public Library’s 2006 Summer Reading Program “Jungle Tales” began with a lot of hiss, rumble, and roar last Wednesday. It started off with a reading by Mary Cribbs of Aesop’s famous fable “The Lion and The Mouse.” Then the excitement grew as the room calmed down for the main event, and the mothers and children have done nothing but praise Nan Fallin of T&N Acres and her animal exhibit ever since. The 136 children and 56 adults present got to see up hand a wallaby, snake, silky dove, fennec fox, hissing cockroach, parrot, cuckoo bird, and a tarantula. The show was provided by funds from the City and Town of Ardmore while Southern Adventure tickets were given away.
On June 28 at 10 a.m., “The Mad Scientist” from Nashville, Tennessee will be performing magic tricks during the reading program. Ricki will spend an hour entertaining the children while educating them about the things of nature. The Mad Scientist is popular this year because he is also doing a show at the Fayetteville Library. Kim Owens will also read to the children this week while a free movie ticket from the Movie Gallery will be given away to each child that participates in this week’s program.
The children need to continue collecting their minutes from reading library books in the reading logs until July 12 during the final program when prizes will be given out.
Last Monday night, Maalac Steele and a couple of Ardmore guys enjoyed Chess Night in the Library’s Reading Room. Maalac taught new strategies and techniques to the excited learners. This Monday night from 5-7 p.m., they would like to encourage others that are interested in learning about chess or that are in need of a partner to come and join them.
New books that arrived recently from the juvenile section of the library are Cornelia Funke’s Dragon Rider, Inheart, The Thief Lord and Inspell, Ann Brashares’ Girls in Pants, Kate McMullan’s Dragon Slayers’ Academy Series # 1-12 and Carolyn Keene’s Notebooks The Singing Suspects, Zoo Clue, The Kitten Caper, The Bunny-Hop Hoax, The Apple Bandit, and Strike-Out Scare.
Newly Arrived Large Print Westerns are Alan LeMay’s West of Nowhere, Lauran Paine’s Squatter’s Rights, Ray Hogan’s Wyoming Drifter, Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s The Ox-Bow Incident, and Max Brand’s Sawdust and Sixguns