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Riverside Foods Challenge!

Posted on June 18, 2013 | Leave a comment

Riverside Foods Challenge 012smRiverside Foods was the place to be Monday night. Our library hosted the “Riverside Foods Shopping Challenge” at the store from 7 to 8:30 pm. Eleven players on four teams were put through their paces finding answers to such puzzlers as, “Whose picture is on the current box of Wheaties?,” and “Which brand of cat food has the most flavor choices?” They also worked hard at physical challenges, weighing produce and labeling food items with the label gun. Everyone had a good time and returned to the library for a wrap-up party featuring snacks and prizes from Riverside Foods. Thank you Riverside Foods! We’ll see you next year?
This program and more to come are all a part of the Summer Reading Program. Have you joined yet?

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Do You Dinosaur?

Posted on April 16, 2013 | Comments Off

So, as many of you already know, jurassic-parksmallerJurassic Park, the 1993 movie has just come out in 3-D in movie theaters and will soon be available for the small screen. I love this movie, but I love the book that it’s based on even more. Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park came out in 1990. If you read it now, you’ll be surprised at how much the world has changed. The book talks about cray supercomputers and there are no cell phones. It’s still a scary book and it’s a lot darker than the movie. Interesting how books and movies take a different direction, isn’t it? What’s your favorite book that’s been made into a movie?

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We Have a Winner!

Posted on March 23, 2013 | Comments Off

The “Very Short Writing Contest” has announced a winner. Congratulations go to Sophia Ramirez , a 6th grader from Hauser Junior High for her winning poem, The Bean. You can read her poem at www.onthesamepage.info. When you do, you might just get the feeling you are there as you read her dream-like images of what it’s like to stand under the bean.cloudgate mysterious

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Very Short Writing Contest

Posted on February 8, 2013 | Comments Off

chicagobeansculptureThere’s a new writing contest in town! It’s called the Very Short Writing Contest. The challenge: can you express your thoughts and feelings about Chicago in 100 words or less? Your piece could be fiction, true story or poetry. The contest is for writers in 5th grade and up. Winning pieces will be displayed in the library and published on the On the Same Page website. What’s “On the Same Page” you ask? It’s the new collaborative reading program between Riverside Public Library and Brookfield Public library. We’re getting together this year to read, Never a City So Real by Alex Kotlowitz, a book all about Chicago. The writing contest is a part of all the fun programming that’s a part of the On the Same Page collaboration. Visit the website “On the Same Page” on our blogroll to the right to learn more about it. So, are you ready to write? Click on the picture at the top of this post to get to the entry form. You can print it out, or send us your entry in an email to: youthservices@riversidelibrary.org Writing contest deadline is March 1st.

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