Monday, October 29, 2012

Election Day Part 2

You probably know all the facts.
Where they were born,
when they were president,
what they accomplished.
 
But do you know anything
exciting
about the presidents?
Funny?
Strange?
 
Here's your chance to brush up
on useless presidential trivia.
 
Don't forget to
cast your vote
for this year's election
on the sidebar of this page!
Voting ends on November 6.
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Thomas Jefferson
washed his feet in ice water every day
because he thought it would keep him
from getting a cold.
 
John Quincy Adams
kept an alligator as a pet
and swam nude in the chilly
Potomac River every morning.


John Tyler
had fifteen children!

  
Andrew Johnson
was sold by his parents
to be an apprentice to a tailor
and didn't learn to read and write
until he was married.


Rutherford B. Hayes
was the first president
to use a telephone.
His phone number was 1.


James A. Garfield
greeted people by barking like a dog.
To amuse guests, he would write in
Greek with one hand while he wrote
in Latin with the other.


William Howard Taft
once got stuck in the
White House bathtub!
(He weighed 332 pounds.
They got him a bigger bathtub.)


Calvin Coolidge
sometimes walked around
with a raccoon around his neck.


Herbert Hoover
and his wife, when they didn't want
anyone to know what they were saying,
spoke to each other in Chinese.



John F. Kennedy
hired a drama coach to help him
improve his public speaking.
One exercise was to bark like a seal
for two minutes straight.


Lyndon B. Johnson
wore a girdle to conceal
his protruding belly.


Ronald Reagan
kept a jelly bean jar and
brought it to meetings.
Jelly beans were his favorite food.


All these facts came from the books
and

Come by the library to
get those and other fascinating
books about the presidents!

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Fire Prevention Poster Contest Winners

Congratulations
to our poster contest winners!
 

Preschool Girl: Francesca DeMarco

Preschool Boy: Elijah Grillo

Kindergarten/1st Grade Girl: Glory Minor

Kindergarten/1st Grade Boy: Wiley Cooper

2nd/3rd Grade: Caley Record

Honorable Mention: Michael Garrison, 5 years old


Tuesday, October 9, 2012

When You Wish Upon a Fish...

Madcap Puppets
brought the Grimm brothers
to the Emmet O'Neal Library
with
"When You Wish Upon a Fish."


Don't miss our other
fairy tale programs this month -
click on our calendar
to find out more.

And don't forget to stop by
and pick up some fairy tales to read
so you can enter to win
an iPad 2!

Monday, October 8, 2012

Win an iPad2!

You probably know your fairy tales.

Like this one:

Or this one:

 Also this one:

I bet you even know this one:


But do you know...

...this one?

Or this one?

Perhaps you need to brush up
on your fairy tales.


Well, you're in luck --
now is the perfect time to do it!

By checking out fairy tales from the library
and reading them,
you can earn the chance to win
an iPad 2!

Every 100 pages you read
earns you another entry.

We've pulled as many fairy tales
as we could find -
chapter books, picture books, easy readers -
so the hard part's already done.
All you have to do is
check them out and read them!

Come visit a Library Dark and Grimm
to find your books and start reading!

The iPad drawing winner
will be announced at our
October 19th fairy tale program,
A Night Dark and Grimm.



Fairy tale pictures answer key,
from top to bottom:
Puss in Boots
Hansel and Gretel
Little Red Riding Hood
The Frog Prince
The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs
Snow White and Rose Red