Family Fun Friday @ the Visalia Branch! Free movvie showing this week: Monster's Inc.

Family Fun @ the Visalia Library!!!

Join us every Friday for free Kinect gaming, movies and over 15 board games that families can enjoy playing together!

When: Every Friday 3pm-5pm
This week's movie @ 4pm: Disney's Monster's Inc.
(children might want to bring pillows or something comfortable to rest on during the movie.)
Kinect Adventures! 3-5pm (Kinect is for ages 6-13)
Cost: Free!!!
Where: The Children's Wing of the Tulare County Library Visalia Branch
Who: Children and parents (adults must be with a child in order to attend this program) *Parents must stay with children under the age of 14.

*No group or daycare visits are allowed during our program times. Please call in advance to schedule a group visit.For further information or to schedule a group visit, call the Children's Dept. 713.2731

Tulare County Branches Prepare to Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s Birthday!

All Branches will have stories, crafts and other fun events:

Dinuba:
Feb 26th - make Lorax mask or Lorax mustache crafts
Feb 27th - Dr. Seuss storytime
Feb 28th - The Lorax movie will be shown

Exeter:
Feb 28 - Birthday party with cupcakes, cookies and punch. Dr. Seuss movies and stories

Ivanhoe:
Feb 27th - Movie Cat in the Hat
Feb 28th  - Birthday party – movie The Lorax and make Lorax hats

Lindsay:
Story Time @ 3:00 - Dr. Seuss stories, silent treasure hunt with prizes handed out

Springville:
Dr. Seuss crafts, guess how many goldfish in a jar, Flyers and coloring pages will be handed out

Strathmore:
Dr. Seuss crafts, guess how many goldfish in a jar, Flyers and coloring pages will be handed out

Three Rivers:
March 1 @ 2:30 - Kids get to fish, play hop or pop. Will have fishing games, prizes, stories, songs and crafts. Everyone needs to wear red and white!

Woodlake: Birthday party with cupcakes and balloons

Recycle Your Batteries and Writing Implements at the Visaila Library

Recycle your used household batteries, pens, and other writing implements by dropping them in the recycling collection containers* located at the Visalia Library. These containers are located on the right-hand side of the reference desk (located between the Spanish and Young Adult sections of the library).

*Containers provided by The City of Visalia, the Visalia Environmental Committee, the City of Visalia, the Consolidated Waste Management Authority (CWMA), and Office Depot.

Friday, February 15th @4pm: Free Children's Movie, Disney's Peter Pan

Family Fun @ the Visalia Library!!!

Join us every Friday for free Kinect gaming, movies and over 15 board games that families can enjoy playing together!

When: Every Friday 3pm-5pm
This week's movie @ 4pm: Disney's Peter Pan
(children might want to bring pillows or something comfortable to rest on during the movie.)
Kinect Adventures! 3-5pm (Kinect is for ages 6-13)
Cost: Free!!!
Where: The Children's Wing of the Tulare County Library Visalia Branch
Who: Children and parents (adults must be with a child in order to attend this program) *Parents must stay with children under the age of 14.

*No group or daycare visits are allowed during our program times. Please call in advance to schedule a group visit.For further information or to schedule a group visit, call the Children's Dept. 713.2731

Friday, Feb. 8th @4pm: Free Children's Movie, Hotel Transylvania

Family Fun @ the Visalia Library!!!
Join us every Friday for free Kinect gaming, movies and over 15 board games that families can enjoy playing together!

When: Every Friday 3pm-5pm
This week's movie @ 4pm: Hotel Transylvania
(children might want to bring pillows or something comfortable to rest on during the movie.)
Kinect Adventures! 3-5pm (Kinect is for ages 6-13)
Cost: Free!!!
Where: The Children's Wing of the Tulare County Library Visalia Branch
Who: Children and parents (adults must be with a child in order to attend this program) *Parents must stay with children under the age of 14.

*No group or daycare visits are allowed during our program times. Please call in advance to schedule a group visit.For further information or to schedule a group visit, call the Children's Dept. 713.2731

First Tuesday Book Club, March 5

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

Book Summary:

"This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair , and it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Miles--a hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At the start he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. By the end of the book, Bendrix's hatred has shifted to the God he feels has broken his life but whose existence he has at last come to recognize. Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as "for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language."

Independent Film, February 21 at 6pm, Visalia Library

Teddy Bear

Directed by Mads Matthiesen
Denmark / Danish, English & Thai with English subtitles / 92 min

Synopsis:
The 38-year-old bodybuilder Dennis would really like to find true love. He has never had a girlfriend and lives alone with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a girl from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck on a trip to Pattaya, as it seems that love is easier to find in Thailand. He knows that his mother would never accept another woman in his life, so he lies and tells her that he is going to Germany. Dennis has never been out traveling before and the hectic Pattaya is a huge cultural shock for him. The intrusive Thai girls give big bruises to Dennis' naive picture of what love should be like, and he is about to lose hope when he unexpectedly meets the Thai woman Toi.

Mystery Readers Meeting, February 20

The next Mystery Readers' Book Group will meet on February 20 at 6:30pm at the Visalia Library (upstairs, in the "blue" meeting room).

This month, read any mystery published between 1930 and 1960. Some authors to consider are John Dickson Carr, Leslie Charteris (The Saint), Earl Biggers (Charlie Chan), Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe), Mary Roberts Rinehart, and of course, Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Ariadne Oliver, and Superintendent Battle).