Madeline Finn and the Library Dog by Lisa Papp won the Nebraska Golden Sower Award in the Picture Book category.
Maxi’s Secrets by Lynn Plourde won in the Chapter Book division.
Both of these books are fantastic stories and available for checkout! Find out more about the Golden Sower Awards at: https://sites.google.com/site/nebraskagoldensower/home
Cats have taken the lead!
I’m going to be talking to you about reading. I’m going to tell you that libraries are important. I’m going to suggest that reading fiction, that reading for pleasure, is one of the most important things one can do. I’m going to make an impassioned plea for people to understand what libraries and librarians are, and to preserve both of these things.
Click on the link below for more of this wonderful lecture given by Neil Gaiman. “We have an obligation to imagine”…He gives The Reading Agency annual lecture on the future of reading and libraries with a focus on young people.
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading, and daydreaming!
Books enrich our lives in so many ways, not only are they good for our health, because reading increases confidence and can help to alleviate depression, but books also enlighten, educate, entertain and inform. And what’s more libraries provide that free, to one and all.
