"A Lannister always pays his debts."

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach with Follow that Peach! Send a virtual peach or a paper peach-gram to a friend and try to keep it rolling around the world. You can even take a picture of yourself with your peach-gram and post it on the website. So far 280 peaches have traveled over 30,000 miles! Join in the fun today.

Believe it or not, this weekend is Memorial Day. To help you get ready for all the picnics, barbecues and parties this summer, we want to share with you 10 Excellent Cookbooks for 2011. And, of course, you can get a copy of any of these books right here at your favorite library.

Thank you to all our patrons for passing our 2011/2012 library budget this week. You obviously Geek The Library and we look forward to seeing you here to support whatever it is you 'geek'.

it looks the pilot of the new wonder woman show hasn't been picked up yet...r u telling me wonder woman can't find a home on tv?

My thanks to Jen, one of our intrepid Children's librarians (and former newspaper reporter), for the information on this blog entry. Better Book Titles is a humorous website for people who don't have hours of time to read book reviews, blurbs or first sentences. You get the meat of the story in one condensed image on the book jacket. Now you can 'read' many of the great literary works of all time in mere seconds. Some of my favorites, besides the hysterical This is the First Book I've Read in Six Years (for Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) include: Last Minute Graduation Gift (for Dr. Seuss' Oh, The Places You'll Go), Drink Responsibly (for Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby) and My Dad is Cooler Than Your Dad (for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird).

Please share with us any better book titles you may have.

I just finished reading a book about competing packs of lycanthropes in modern L.A. I thought it was a highly entertaining thiller and it has a explosive ending. The author's concept of werewolves is an interesting one and he likes to blur the line between wolf and dog. Since the full moon is coming I figured this would be a fitting read.

Max and Ruby, Ruby and Max - don't you just love those bunnies? They're cute and funny, and sometimes I wish I knew someone named Roger so I could say, "Hiiii, Roger," just like Ruby. When I read Bunny Money in story time, it's like the Beatles arrival at JFK (I might be exaggerating a little, but never underestimate the enthusiasm of three and four-year-olds).
Well, I have good news for Max and Ruby fans - Rosemary Wells, their creator, has her own app with a brand new bunny character. It's called "Bunny Fun: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" and it features the classic preschool song in four languages.
Enjoy!

It's almost 'Summer Reading Season' (isn't Memorial Day the official start date?) and O Magazine has a list of 16 books to bring along with you to the beach or pool this month.

Faith and 22 Brittannia Road are two that I am definitely putting on my growing list to read over the holiday weekend (only 17 more days but who's counting).

Remember this list when we start our 3rd Annual Adult Summer Reading Club this July! More information soon ...

Last week in NYC, The Edgar Awards were awarded honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2010.

I'm disappointed that one of my favorites, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, didn't win.

Anyone else out there in love with and insanely jealous of the Pioneer Woman, a.k.a. Ree Drummond? She has a handsome, cowboy husband, four cute kids (or "punks" as she calls them) and they all live on a gorgeous ranch in Oklahoma. I think a lot of city girls, including this one, harbor some fantasies about living in the country. And not only is she a blogger, but she is now the author of three books! My envy is growing. She has a cookbook: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl; a romance novel/memoir: The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels -- a Love Story; and now a children's book: Charlie the Ranch Dog, about her basset hound, Charlie. Check out her blog to see a behind the scenes look at how the book came about. Full disclosure: this is not how most children's books come about. First-time authors rarely get to pick their illustrator and usually there is not much interaction between author and illustrator.

When I was a kid my mom used to say that I would read anything and everything, even the back of the cereal box. In the UK there's finally going to be something good to read back there. Asda supermarkets will feature excerpts from Roald Dahl classics such as The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on the boxes of their brand of cereals. Asda cereals include rice pops and honey hoops - they kind of sound like something Wonka would make. Maybe this idea will make its way across the pond. What would you like to read with your frosted flakes?