Did you know that in January the library started offering a free bilingual storytime? Once a month on Saturday mornings parents and their young ones are invited to come and experience a storytime in both english and spanish. Your family and friends will learn basic spanish language skills and the spanish culture from listening to read-a-louds and participating in literacy activities.

This event began as a request from a bilingual parent (who is also a friend of the library) that was looking for ways to help raise her children to speak both english and spanish as well.

There are many foreign language and bilingual books available for check out in the children's room. Here are 3 suggestions for locating these materials.

First, if you are looking for stories entirely in a foreign language head directly to the foreign language alcove. Books have a number code on the spine to represent different languages. Spanish for instance will always have the number 10 on the spine.

Second, if you are looking for foreign language instruction books you'll want to head to the non-fiction stacks in the 468 call number area.

Finally, if you would like to find fiction books that are written both bilingual and entirely in a foreign language try searching the children's room catalog with the keywords "spanish fiction" (subsitute other languages for the keyword "spanish" if you desire).

Come join us where every storytime is a fiesta!

Saturdays...
March 10 @ 11:00am
April 14 @ 1:00pm
May 12 @ 11:00am
June 9 @ 11:00am