Snowy Family

Here is another "snowy display" at the library. Certainly is a lot of real snow in our part of the world!

One of my favorite children's authors wrote the book entitled A Promise is a Promise. The author is a well known storyteller named Robert Munsch who is most famous for his book

Love You Forever. Michael Kusugak has co-authored the book in the picture above. He remembered his own childhood in the Arctic and made up a story about his own encounter with the imaginary Qallupilluq, an Alaskan legend used to tell to children in hopes of keeping them safely off of the cracked areas in frozen lakes in the Arctic. To quote from the book itself "A Qallupilluq is an imaginary Inuit creature, somewhat like a troll, that lives in Hudson Bay. It wears a woman's parka made of loon feathers and reportedly grabs children when they come too near cracks in the ice." Kusugak and Munsch teamed together to write A Promise Is a Promise.

The VHS shelves show the attractive new colors to our recently renovated chldrens' area of the library. Our mostly animated movies are kept here and we have close to 1,500 total dvds and vhs material availabe. Not bad for a small town of 1300!!