Reading Buddies

The Reading Buddies are coming! The Reading Buddies are coming!

Lane Memorial Library is preparing to launch a Reading Buddies program for students in kindergarten through high school. The program will pair younger readers with older readers—or possibly create small groups of three or four, depending on registration. These “buddies” will meet at the library to read together. Participants may choose from picture books, easy readers, chapter books, nonfiction, or any combination thereof. Readers may share the reading or assign specific reader and listener roles. Arrangements within each pair or group will be flexible to accommodate each student’s comfort level.

Sign-ups for the Reading Buddies program begin November 6 and run through November 20. There will be an initial two-session trial run on Monday, November 27 at 4:00 p.m., and Monday, December 11, at 4:00 p.m. If the trial run is successful, the Reading Buddies will then meet regularly starting in January 2007. To register, please call or stop by the children’s room at Lane Memorial Library: 926-4729.

October 30th Readers Theatre

Next Monday, October 30, the LML Readers Theatre Troupe will present a free reading of some of Anthony D. Fredericks's "Frankly Fractured Folktales" and possibly a spooky story or two. Join us! 4:00 p.m. in the Lane Room.

Open to all ages. Best appreciated by students in Kindergarten through 5th grade.

Night of the Hunter - Oct. 28th film

The Lane Memorial Library is pleased to present another Fall and Winter Film series in our downstairs Lane Room. Each month audiences will enjoy some of the best “classic” movies ever made in a theater setting featuring our digital DVD projection system. These films are free to the public, and those who wish may stay afterwards for a discussion with like-minded enthusiasts. Free popcorn will be provided, and although we will have seats set up, everyone is encouraged to bring their own comfy (portable) chair.

Just in time for Halloween, the film series will kick off Saturday afternoon, October 28th at 1 PM with a showing of Robert Mitchum’s 1955 thriller Night of the Hunter. Directed by the legendary British actor Charles Laughton, scripted by critic James Agee (who co-wrote The African Queen) and also starring Shelly Winters and the redoubtable Lillian Gish, this film ratchets up the suspense as Mitchum’s psychopathic character pursues two innocent children who know where $10,000 was hidden by their bank robber father. Produced during a time when screen violence was intimated rather than shown, Laughton’s expert direction and the haunting black-and-white cinematography of Stanley Cortez nevertheless create a first class nail-biter. Although this film is not rated, parents should be aware that there are scenes of intense peril that could be very troubling to younger children.

Future titles in our film series include Paul Newman’s Hud, Danish filmmaker Carl Dryer’s Ordet, Joseph Manckiewicz’s scintillating All About Eve, Akira Kurosawa’s powerful The Bad Sleep Well, and Robert Duval’s Tender Mercies.

For more information, contact Darrell Eifert at the Lane Memorial Library, (603) 926-3368, email deifert@hampton.lib.nh.us.

Teen Read Week, October 15-21

A Teen Read Week Challenge
For Hampton Students in Grades 6 through 12

Have you ever seen a librarian with pink hair? Would you like to? Or would you prefer green? How about pink and green stripes?

Here’s the deal: I hereby challenge all Hampton students in grades 6-12 to find time to read for fun during Teen Read Week 2006 (October 15-21). If you meet that challenge, I will (temporarily) dye my hair pink, green, or both pink and green.

I know you are all busy with school, sports, friends, work, tormenting your parents, and other perils of youth, so I’m betting that I’m pretty safe with my natural hair color. Care to prove me wrong?

If so, read. Read for fun throughout the week of October 15-21, 2006. Read anything you’d like and stop by the children’s room of Lane Memorial Library to put a penny in the jar for each page of fun reading you complete during the week. Don’t have a penny? Don’t worry, we’ll have a stash of pennies ready for you. If you put a penny in the jar, you’ll also get a vote for the hair color of your choice. Come to the library once, twice, every day that week, whatever—if there are at least 600 pennies in the jar at the end of the week, then I’ll show up for work on Monday, October 23, with pink, green, or striped hair. Promise.

The only requirement is that you read for fun, not for school or for work, but just because you feel like reading. Beyond that, you can read anything you choose, from novels to nonfiction, comic books to dictionaries, newspapers to cereal boxes (one box = one page). If you enjoy reading technical manuals, read them. If your preference is for chick lit, read that. Online reading counts, too: articles, blogs, wikis, even e-mail. Even if you read only one page for fun during the week, that one page could be the one that pushes the total to 600 and wins the challenge. So, read, have fun, and be honest, and you just might see a librarian with pink hair (or green hair, or pink and green hair).

Cheryl

Lane Library Friends announce Holiday Fair and General Meeting

The Friends of the Lane Memorial Library are having a general membership meeting on Wednesday, October 11th at 6 p.m. in the Lane Room at the library. All are invited to attend and participate in a meeting to plan our holiday fair to be held on November 17th and November 18th. The Holiday Fair Committee has met and put together some great ideas. Join us in planning a Holiday Fair that will be fun for all and beneficial for the library.

Linda Libbey

Two newsletters

Our quarterly library newsletter -- "Lane Library Lines" -- has recently appeared on our website along with our monthly newsletter from the Children's Room. Follow these links to read them in PDF format (you'll need the free Adobe Reader program to view them.) Thank you to Teen Librarian Cheryl French for editing and preparing these newsletters.

Another thank you to all who came to the Friends of the Library booksale last week and bought books. The Friends made a whopping $3000 from the 3-day sale, and now look forward to being able to help the library purchase some things that we might otherwise not be able to afford. One of the things that the Friends buy for the library every year are passes to various museums around the area, including the museums of Fine Arts and Science in Boston, the New England Aquarium in Boston, the Children's Museum of Portsmouth, the Museum of New Hampshire History in Concord, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., and the Seacoast Science Center at Odiorne Point State Park in Rye. For details on all these passes, follow this link.