"Cirque du Suitcase" Puppet Show Family Night!

Come join us for Family Night on Tuesday, February 6th, when Puppeteer Lee Bryan will wow the crowd with his traveling suitcase circus! You'll see a tightrope walking elephant, a lion taming act, a giraffe on stilts, and a daredevil leopard all emerge from a clown's suitcase!

Dinner will be served at 5:30p.m. and the show begins at 6:00p.m.

This event is sponsored by The Friends of the Emmet O'Neal Library.

See you at the Circus!

Frog-tastic Fun at the Library!

The reviews are in, and the Emmet O'Neal Library Players received "two webbed feet up" and a resounding "Ribbit!" for their latest after-school production, Frog and Toad. Check out the pictures below! If you missed out on the fun this time, be sure to keep checking our blog for updates and information on upcoming library events.

Accelerated Reader Update

Attention Mountain Brook parents and students! Mountain Brook Schools have updated their Accelerated Reader (AR) system to include Renaissance Learning, which has thousands of AR quizzes available. The website can be searched by title, author, quiz number, ISBN, topic, interest level, book level, point value, and publication date. (Whew!) You may use the basic search function at the top of the Quiz Store page to search for a specific book or author, or you may do an advanced search to look for a book within a range of reading levels or point values. Please feel free to ask a librarian if you have any difficulty. To access Renaissance Learning at the library, visit the computer workstations on the first floor near the Children's Department, and select the new icon on the computer screen.

Surf the Web at Emmet O'Neal Library!

Do you want to learn more about how to use the Internet and online library resources? Do you need help locating information online for homework, projects, or just for fun? If you do and you're in the 3rd-6th grades, call today (879-0497) and sign up for Kids and Komputers!

On February 16th at 3:30, we will learn how to use the library website, catalog, and databases; how to search more effectively and safely with Google; how to use Homework Alabama for free online tutoring; and other informative and fun ways to find what you need to know on the web. Space is limited, so call and sign up today!

Sail Away into a Reading Adventure!

Attention, 4th-6th graders! The next Dis-A-Book sessions will be on January 23rd and 30th. Space is still available for both days. This month we will be reading, discussing, and dissecting the exciting story of Peter Pan before he became...Peter Pan. Peter and the Starcatchers, written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, follows Peter and several of his fellow orphans as they embark on a sea adventure and tangle with bloodthirsty pirates, magical stardust ("starstuff"), unscrupulous sailors, fierce island natives, a secret society, and a monstrous crocodile named Mr. Grin. Join Ms. Erica for pizza and fun at 6PM and collect the next patch for your official Dis-A-Book backpack, provided by the Friends of the Emmet O'Neal Library. Call 879-0497 to sign up today!

Über-Exciting Author News!

Over the holidays, the Children's Department received two mind-bogglingly amazing pieces of news! First of all, J.K. Rowling announced the title of what will be the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, for which we all wait with bated breath: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now we are all speculating wildly about what this title could mean for the ultimate fate of our favorite bespectacled hero. PLEASE don't kill off Harry, Ron, or Hermione, we beg you, J.K.! And please don't make us wait until 2008 to read what is sure to be a masterpiece.


In news a little closer to home but just as cool, award-winning author Rick Riordan took notice of our blog posting about the latest Dis-a-Book on his smash hit, The Lightning Thief. We received two official Camp Half-Blood t-shirts to use as giveaways at our January 2nd book discussion session. A thousand thank-yous and mega-mythological-props to Rick and Becky Riordan! All of the Percy Jackson fans here in Mountain Brook are eagerly awaiting The Titan's Curse in May.