What’s Cooking?

In support of The Spatulatta Cookbook, a 2007 cookbook for kids by Isabella and Olivia Gerasole, Scholastic held a sweepstakes content for a chance to meet the authors and appear in an episode of their James Beard Award-winning webcast. The winner, Brandon Reisen, age eight, of Calabash, N.C., recently met the sisters and cooked five [...]

Summer’s Over, Let’s get ready for school!

Yes it’s true. Time to look ahead to when school starts.  Need some help brushing up on your math, science, English, or Social Studies?  Go to  and look for

Link to Live Homework Help!

You can chat on-line to trained tutors from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. everyday.  You can also find tutors to help you in Spanish!  [...]

Have a great school year!

Summer is coming to a close and most of you will be starting school soon–if you haven’t already. Even now the Alameda County Library staff are planning for next year’s reading game. So plan on stopping by again in May, 2009 for a preview and June for the start of our next game!
Keep Reading!!

Friday Funnies Finale

S _ _ _ L
I start with an S and end with an L.
My body is wrapped in a spiralling shell.
I crawl at a pace much too slow for a race.
When I move, you can tell by my trail of mucky jell.
What am I? Can you tell?
(SNAIL)
What’s the largest and in the world?   Antarctica
What kind [...]

YOUR ZANY Bug ABCs

Y is for YELLOW JACKET, the common name in North America for wasps. Unlike a bee, which can only sting once, wasps can sting many times. Yellowjackets are social insects living in colonies containing workers, queens and males. Wasps eat other insects which harm fruit and vegetable plants, but they can be aggressive to people and pets. [...]

Magic Tree House Musical Opens Next Month

Mary Pope Osborne, well-known author of the Magic Tree House series, moves her beloved creation to the stage next month. Click here to view the tour schedule for U.S. cities:
http://www.mthmusical.com/nationaltour.html
Ms. Osborne makes her home in Connecticut and she lives in a house in the forest not unlike the one in her books. Did you know she is married to [...]

Abigail and Anna recite their favorite book!

After I gave them their Summer Reading Game final prizes, I asked Abigail and Anna about their favorite book. It released a breathless torrent of words. They sure know their Madeline–right down to the “Boo hoo’s”! (Spoiler alert: in the video clip, the girls recite the end of the book. You might want to read the book yourself before [...]

Fiddling Away the Summer…

This is a short caroon version of the classis Aesop fable about the grasshopper who plays all summer and then come winter must depend on the pity and kindness of a group of ants who were thinking ahead.

Where in the world is the reading bug (no.4 answer)

Answer for Reading Bug Search No.4

It was hard this time , but here is our Winner:
Sudestna Tripathy :I think this time the reading bug is on BOOKMOBILE

Friday Funnies!

Ann Anteater ate Andy Alligator’s apples, so angry Andy Alligator ate Ann Anteater’s ants.
If ants are so busy, why do they
always have time to show up at picnics?
A Bug and a Flea
          A bug and a flea went out to sea 
Upon a reel of cotton;  
The flea was drowned but
The bug was found Biting a lady’s [...]