Did you Know?



Our Library has a Mascot?



Her name is Sparkie the frog. Sparkie the frog can live to be 25 years old! Make sure to visit her next time you are at the library.


Sparkie the Frog

Sparkie the Frog

Gingerbread House Decorating

Come join us for Gingerbread House Decorating on Tuesday and Wednesday December 6th and 7th at 6 pm. The registration fee for this program is $2 per person, per day. Sign up at the library circulation desk. We hope to see you there!

Pumpkin Decorating

Our Halloween Pumpkin Decorating was an outstanding success! Here are a few photos to enjoy.












Back to School Book Recommendations

Lincoln Park Public Library has great "Back to School" books for kids in preschool and elementary school, and their favorite grownups.

Getting big enough to go to school books:

Things I learned in Second Grade / Schwartz, Amy
JE S

Berenstain Bears go back to school / Berenstain, Stain
JE B

Brand-new pencils, brand-new books / De Groat, Diane
JE D

Look out kindergarten, here I come! / Carlson, Nancy L.
JE C

Chatterbox Jamie / Cooney, Nancy Evans.
JE C

Day care days / Barrett, Mary Brigid.
JE B

School Humor

Did you see what I saw? : poems about school / Winters, Kay.
J811.54 W

Almost late to school and more school poems / Shields, Carol Diggory
J811.54 S

If you're not here, please raise your hand: poems about school. / Dakos, Kalli
J811.54 D

"Wayside School" books, by Louis Sachar
J FIC SACHAR

Reflecting on the school experience as a whole

Did you se what I saw? : poems about school / Winters, Kay.
J811.54 W

Social Skills (self-confidence, friendships, cooperation)

Little girls can be mean: four steps to bully-proof girls in the early grades / Anthony, Michelle
371.58 A

Judy Moody: around the world in 8 1/2 days / McDonald, Megan.
J FIC MCDONALD

It's hard to be five: learning how to work my control panel : Curtis, Jamie Lee
JE C

I'm gonna liek me: letting off a little self-esteem / Curtis, Jamie Lee
JE C

How to handle bullies, teasers, and other meanies : a book that takes the nuisance out of name calling and other nonsense
Cohen-Posey, Kate
J155.418 F

The True Francine / Brown, Marc
JE B

Bully Blockers Club / Bateman, Teresa
JE B

Shrinking Violet / Best, Cari
JE B

Discovering and developing your own skills

Once upon a time 1st American ed. / Daly, Niki
JE D

Thank you, Mr. Falker / Polacco, Patricia
JE P

Do bananas chew gum? / Gilson, Jamie
J FIC Gilson

What can we learn today?

Games for learning: ten minutes a day to help your child do well in school : from kindergarten to third grade / Kaye, Perry
P/T 372.13K

Things I learned in Second Grade / Schwartz, Amy
JE S

What's the matter in Mr. Whisker's Room? / Ross, Michael Els
Oversize J 507.8 R

Math curse / Jon Scieszka and [illustrated by] Lane Smith.
Oversize J 510S

Look, I can Read! / Hood, Susan
JER H

"Miss Smith" books/ Garland, Michael
JE G

I can read with my eyes shut / Seuss, Dr.
JER S

Oh the thinks you can think / Seuss, Dr.
JER S

Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! / Seuss, Dr.
JE S

Chapter-book series about school

"Wayside School" / Sachar, Louis

"Adventures of the Bailey School Kids" / Dadey, Debbie and Marcia Thornton Jones

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