The fairies are returning to Andover, and they’ll need housing in town! Come with your children on Saturday, June 14 (rain date: the 21st ), to construct special fairy abodes beneath the trees near the Andover Public Library. Bring materials suitable for earth-bound winged creatures who will need to rest comfortably every night.
Fairies adore creative homes built of sticks and stones and feathers and shells and flowers; wouldn’t you? The Library will supply some materials; just no people-made toys, please.
Plan to arrive at 10 AM for a morning of fun and frolic. Grown-ups welcome! If you want to leap into the spirit of spirits, grown-ups, look up Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short works on the Cottingley Photographs, which fairly ruined his reputation after the Sherlock Holmes opus.
Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime … thinking about reading through the summer, kids? You should be!
The Andover libraries will offer summer reading programs for kindergarten through second grade; third through fifth grade; and a special middle school book club at the Bachelder Library for grades six through eight. The kindergarten through second grade program will be held on Wednesdays at 10 AM from July 9 through August 6. The third through fifth grade group will meet on Saturdays at 10 AM from July 12 through August 9.
Patsy Power, Imagination Inn’s Doreen Perreault, and Priscilla Poulin from Andover Public Library will lead the children through all kinds of books and activities with a “Boom Fizz Read!” theme.
Gail Fitzpatrick’s book club at Bachelder Public Library will meet on Thursday, July 10, from 6 to 7 PM and continue for four to five weeks. Personal and/or group choice is the key for this club, and Gail will be coming to visit AE/MS to spark interest so that books will be available at the first meeting.
Don’t forget about the big “book sales” coming up in July. The afternoon of Thursday, July 3, is reserved for Andover residents in the Stone Chapel, while the doors will open to one and all the morning of July 4. If you have any books, DVDs, or CDs in good condition to contribute (no VHS tapes!), drop them at either library right away. See you around town.