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Read 1000 Books Before Kindergarten
Read 1000 Books Before Kindergarten
Accept the challenge to read 1000 Books Before Kindergarten. Medina County District Library is joining a national campaign to help babies, preschooler and their families on the path to early literacy. The 1000 Books Before Kindergarten campaign is implemented by the library’s children’s team and begins January 22, which coincides with the first week of winter storytime sessions. Parents and caregivers can pick up a packet at any MCDL location, including the Bookmobile. Inside they will find instructions and a sheet to log their first 100 books read. With each 100 books, children can earn a small prize. “We wanted to launch this with storytimes because it’s a great audience to introduce the concepts to”, says Gail Ebey, Medina Library Children’s Department Supervisor. “We are also distributing the first sheet to more than 1500 day-care students that MCDL staff provide storytimes to each month. We really want to make an impact on parents and caregivers that reading is so important for future success in school.” Sign up for storytimes at mcdl.info/storytime or attend other library events to help make the trek to 1000 Books Before Kindergarten and count those books, too! “Don’t worry, reading the same book over and over again counts each time AND helps your child build on language skills, so go ahead and read that Thomas the Train book - again!”, says Ebey. To learn more go to mcdl.info/1000Books or download the 1000 Books Apps for iPhones and Droids at the App stores. Click here for more Medina County District Library news. |
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Paula McLain is the author of the New York Times and internationally bestselling novels The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun. She now introduces her latest title, Love and Ruin, which returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn – a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century. Paula received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan in 1996, and she lives with her children in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo credit: Melanie Acevedo Browse our catalog for titles by Paula McLain. |
Emilie Richards is the author of over 70 novels including romance, women’s fiction and cozy mystery. Her series include Ministry is Murder mysteries, the Shenandoah Album novels, The Happiness Key series, and the Goddesses Anonymous novels.
Tom Batiuk celebrated the 10th anniversary of Lisa’s Story, the award-winning storyline in Medina resident Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean comic strip. Lisa’s universe was expanded in September 2017 with two new titles: Prelude and The Last Leaf.
Jay Asher’s debut YA novel, Thirteen Reasons Why, has appeared regularly on the New York Times bestsellers list for the past 10 years. It has sold over 2.5 million copies in the US alone. His second YA novel, The Future of Us, was coauthored with Printz-honor winner Carolyn Mackler. His novels have been translated into over 30 languages. His third novel, What Light, was released in October 2016.
Brad Ricca is the author of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes and Super Boys, which won the Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction and was named a Top 10 Book on the Arts by Booklist. His book of poetry, American Mastodon, won the St. Lawrence Book Award. He is a 2014 winner of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Emerging Artist in Literature and is a SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University.
Jim Gill is an award-winning musician and author. His distinctive music play creates the spirit of a family room in the concert hall and is an invitation to children, parents and grandparents to sing and play together!
Mary Doria Russell is the award-winning author of six bestselling novels, including the science fiction classics The Sparrow and Children of God; the Pulitzer-nominated World War II thriller, A Thread of Grace; and a political romance set in 1921 Cairo called Dreamers of the Day. With her latest novels, Doc and Epitaph, Russell has redefined two towering figures of the American West: the lawman Wyatt Earp and the dental surgeon Doc Holliday. The daughter of a sheriff, Mary grew up with cops and guns but also holds a Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the University of Michigan and taught anatomy at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dentistry.
Emily St. John Mandel is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Station Eleven, a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award and MCDL's One Book, One Community 2016 selection. Mandel is the author of three previous novels – Last Night in Montreal, The Singer’s Gun and The Lola Quartet – all of which were Indie Next picks. Mandel was born in British Columbia, Canada. She is a staff writer for The Millions, and her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 and Venice Noir. She lives in New York City with her family.
Thrity Umrigar, author of The Story Hour, The World We Found, The Weight of Heaven, and other novels, is the Armington Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She was born in Bombay, India, and came to the U.S. when she was 21. After earning a business degree, which she survived by writing and acting in plays, she earned her M.A. in English and later received a fellowship at Harvard University, where she wrote her first novel, Bombay Time. Thrity speaks at literary events all over the U.S. 
Lauren Oliver is the bestselling author of the Delirium Trilogy, as well as Before I Fall, Panic, and Vanishing Girls for teens, Liesl & Po and The Spindlers for middle-grade readers, and Rooms for adults. Raised in Westchester, NY, in a family of writers, Oliver has always enjoyed living creatively, often writing sequels for her favorite books as a young adult. She studied literature and philosophy at the University of Chicago and Creative Writing at New York University. She enjoys reading, cooking, traveling, running, dancing, making up weird songs and working in her pajamas.
