Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Storytime Room
Tweens are invited to a monthly book club to listen to a graphic novel read-aloud. We'll enjoy a 30-minute excerpt of a different book each month, and then do an activity based on the book. Plus, cookies will be served!
For our April meeting, in honor of Earth Day on April 20, we'll read Bog Myrtle by Sid Sharp.
Two sisters, one stubbornly cheerful (Beatrice) and one relentlessly grumpy (Magnolia), live in a drafty old house with a family of helpful spiders. When Beatrice is gifted magic yarn from a giant forest spider obsessed with sustainability named Bog Myrtle, she and the spiders set to work knitting up a perfectly warm sweater.
But greedy Magnolia sees only the opportunity for profit, and quickly converts the old house into a magic sweater factory. The exhausted spiders are driven to strike, and Bog Myrtle is not pleased . . .
Bog Myrtle is a witty modern folktale that touches on themes of capitalism, environmentalism, labor rights, and being a nice person.
After we read the book, conduct humane experiments using live earthworms to learn about worms' behavior, anatomy, and habitat, and their role in maintaining healthy soil which we rely on.
If you need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this event, please contact the Library.
This event is open to the public.
