Tell Your Tale #1

This summer the Youth Services Department is offering a number of ways to interact with your library. For each interaction, you can fill out this form for a chance to win. 

For Young Children

Story Time is available online. Miss Chrissy is offering Story Time videos designed for children up to age 6. Join the Story Time group on the NFPL Facebook page to receive video links each week.

For Kids of Any Age:

Read-Aloud Videos are posted on our YouTube and Facebook pages each week. See your favorite staff members read stories new and old, sometimes with special animation. Check out past videos here and here.

Read A Book! Fill out the form linked above for each book you read. Remember, ebooks are free to check out from our emedia site here. Reading aloud to younger children, or to the whole family counts as reading for everyone!

Tell Your Tale! Check out our story prompts, posted on our facebook and instagram pages, or here on our blogs. Write a story or create art from one or more of the prompts, and submit it to chrissybraun@newtonfalls.org. Your creation may be posted on our social media.

Selfie Scavenger Hunt! We will post a selfie on Facebook and Instagram of a staff member somewhere in Newton Falls. Find the spot, take your own selfie and send it to us at chrissybraun@newtonfalls.org.

You can fill out the entry form each time you interact with us, and you can do all the activities more than once. At the end of our summer reading program, we will draw names from these entries to win gift cards from local Newton Falls Businesses.

As the situation develops, we may be able to offer more and varied programs over the summer. Be sure to follow us on social media for the most current information.

Turtle Titles!!

Here's some great books with information about turtles.

Turtles by Emily Green

Did you know that some turtles live to be over 100 years old? Some live in the ocean, others on land, and some live both in water and on land! Young readers will discover what turtles eat, where they live, and how their shells and other physical features help them survive in the wild.

Where is the Great Barrier Reef by Nico Medina

In this Where Is? title, kids can explore the Great Barrier Reef—big enough to be seen from space but made up of billions of tiny living organisms.

Reptiles Big Book

Learn about lizards, snakes and turtles in this Discover Series Big Book! Used as a jumpstart for interaction, Discover Series Picture Books are a great way to introduce new images, words and concepts to kids.

Best Foot Forward: Exploring Feet Flippers and Claws by Ingo Arndt

Whose foot is this? An intriguing close-up of an animal's foot piques curiousity that's satisfied on the following page with a stunning full-size photo of the animal itself and a brief description of how the foot is used. 

Fun stories with Turtles!!

Croc and Turtle by Mike Wohnoutka

Meet Croc! He is the strongest and fastest crocodile around.
Meet Turtle! He agrees that Croc is the strongest and fastest.

Yertle the Turtle and other Stories by Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss presents three modern fables in the rhyming favorite Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. The collection features tales about greed ("Yertle the Turtle"), vanity ("Gertrude McFuzz"), and pride ("The Big Brag"). In no other book does a small burp have such political importance! Yet again, Dr. Seuss proves that he and classic picture books go hand in hand. 

A Spectacular Selection of Sea Critters by Betsy Franco

What might you see if you swam in the sea? Dive on in to encounter everything from dolphins and octopuses to sea turtles and squirrel fish. This clever book features concrete poems about a spectacular selection of sea critters.

Esio Trot by Roald Dahl

Mr. Hoppy is in love with his neighbor, Mrs. Silver; but she is in love with someone else—Alfie, her pet tortoise. With all her attention focused on Alfie, Mrs. Silver doesn't even know Mr. Hoppy is alive.