Autumn

Fall Is In The Air!

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The days are getting shorter and cooler, and fall is definitely in the air.  Leaves are turning shades of yellow, orange, and red, carpeting the ground and changing the landscape.  It’s easy to fall in love with fall and its beautiful colors! Following are some books to share with children about this beautiful season. Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn by Kenard Pak This book shows the transition from summer to fall as a young girl and her dog walk through the woods and through town, noticing the changes as one season slowly becomes the next.  The illustrations are beautifully done.  Wonderfall …

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Autumn in the Library

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A Applesauce Season U Ugly Pumpkin T Twelve Haunted Rooms Of Halloween U Uninvited M Maine Ghosts & Legends N Nature And Science Of Autumn I It’s Halloween N Night Of The Pumpkinheads T Till Year’s Good End H Hello, Harvest Moon E Every Autumn Comes The Bear L Leaf By Leaf I I Know It’s Autumn B Boo And Baa Have Company R Run, Turkey, Run A Autumnblings R Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits Y Yankee Magazine’s Ultimate Guide To Autumn In New England All of the above titles are available through the Gardiner Public Library.  Click on the title …

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Fall Movies!

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September may mean back to school but it also means it’s time for town and country fairs!  The air is crisp, the harvest is wrapping up, and everyone heads to the fair to relax with their friends and neighbors. Here are a few movies that celebrate those good times in one way or another: Babe (1995)  Totally charming fable has intelligent piglet Babe being raised by matriarch sheepdog Fly, and learning the art of sheep herding along with his new canine brothers. Starring James Cromwell. Charlotte‘s Web (2006)  Faithful to E.B. White’s timeless 1952 children’s novel about a young girl …

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Autumn means it’s soup time!

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As the temperatures drop, the phrase “Soup is good food” runs through my mind.  There is nothing like a delicious bowl of soup to warm you up on a chilly day.  The library has at least three books dedicated to only soup recipes:  Maine-Course Soups & Stews by Dorothy Ivens, Saved by Soup by Judith Barrett, and Lee Bailey’s Soup Meals by Lee Bailey.  Of course any general cookbook will also have great section of soup recipes.  They are so varied in scope, can be so easy to throw together, and can be stretched to feed many. Some soups that …

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