The Pratt libraries have programs to entertain and inform all ages. Roland Park recently had Splash! with Tracey Eldridge to the delight of the under-five crowd and their caregivers.  On Wednesday July 21, teens created their own designs which were then airbrushed on as temporary tattoos.

 

Splash! with Tracy Eldridge

Splash! is for children of all ages! 

Temporary tattoos for Ben and Helen.

Brandon's temporary tattoo design.

Temporary tattoos for Sarah and Rob.

On Thursday, July 8 the Roland Park Branch Library entertained families with the science and art of The Bubble Lady, one of our special programs for our Summer Reading Program called “Make A Splash!”  Summer reading is in week five of eight and will end on Saturday, August 7.

Join the fun!

  
Kearra's handful of bubble!

Kurk's handful of bubble!

 
Chynia inside the bubble!

 
Jackson inside the bubble!

 
Sebastian's handful of bubble!

 
Zoya's handful of bubble!

"Liberty," wrote Eric Blair under his famous pseudonym, George Orwell, "is telling people what they do not want to hear." Orwell lived during the first half of the twentieth century and is best known for his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, which warn that the growing power of modern governments, regardless of their ideology, threatens to obliterate such widely held ideals as love of family, tolerance toward others, and the right to make up one's own mind. Convinced that human decency and common sense were the basis of a just society, the author repeatedly found himself in conflict with the ideological mass movements of his time, ranging from capitalism to fascism and communism.

Excerpted from Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2010. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2010. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

Celebrate his birthday by reading one of his classic novels or, perhaps, watching a film!

Please enjoy our pictures from the Summer Reading kickoff on Saturday June 12th. 

Come and join the summer fun!  We have reading programs for every age--children, teens and adults.  Read books, win prizes!  Avoid the summer (reading) slide!

Zoe and Abigayle crabwalking their way to a tie in the crabwalk race!

Winners in the beach ball relay- elbows only!
Clockwise it's Justin and Tatiyana, Alex, Emma and Connor.

Morgan Freeman is a consummate theater and movie actor who has earned critical accolades for his many diverse roles, and won an Academy Award in 2005 for best actor in a supporting role in Million Dollar Baby. Stanley Mieses of Premiere praised the actor's "remarkable range," noting that he has appeared in "roles in vehicles so disparate in nature, and in such a variety of disciplines, that it's difficult to imagine the same man in all of them." New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael opened a review with the question "Is Morgan Freeman the greatest actor in America today?" and proceeded to conclude that he is. Those in his field have also recognized his talents. "When professionals talk range," a director told Ross Wetzsteon of New York, "the names you hear most often are Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, and Morgan Freeman. It's that indefinable quality only the greatest actors have.

Excerpted from  "Morgan Freeman." Newsmakers 1990, Issue 4. Gale Research, 1990.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2010.