Upcoming Events

The mercury may be falling, but things are heating up at the Ohio County Public Library! Check out our upcoming events!

Tuesday February 3 at 4:00 PM Gregory Gibson Kenney will present "York" for our Black History Month Celebration.

Monday February 9 at 6:00 PM Mid-Winter Beach Party. If the cold weather has you down, join us for summer music and games, stories and crafts. We'll also debut the Summer Reading Program Theme.

Monday March 2 6:00 PM 3rd Annual Bake-A-Cake for Dr. Seuss Contest. This is my favorite program of the year. Enter your cake creation in our contest, vote for your favorite cake, hear a Seuss story, and celebrate the birthday of Theodore Geisel. Oh yeah, did we mention that we eat the cakes at the conclusion of the party?!

If you would like more details or if you would like to register for any of our programs, stop in the Children's Department Office or give us a call at (304) 232-0244.

American Library Association Children's Literature Awards

This morning, the ALA announced the 2009 Caldecott and Newbery winners.

2009 Caldecott Winner:The House in the
Night By Susan Marie Swanson Illustrated by Beth Krommes
Naming nighttime things that are both comforting and intriguing-a key, a bed, a book, a light, the moon-this timeless good night book illuninates a reassuring order to the universe.

2009 Newbery Winner:The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman
Mobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living or the dead.
There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.
But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack-who has already killed Bod's family...

Junior League of Wheeling Story Time

The Junior League of Wheeling will be sponsoring a "Winter Wonderland" Story Time Saturday January 17 at 10:00 in the Ohio County Public Library auditorium. Children will hear winter stories and make a snow globe!

Look What's New!

We have lots of new things in the Children's Department! We've recently received several episodes of This is Daniel Cook and This is Emily Yueng, as well as Tom and Jerry cartoons, all on DVD. New music cd's for kids are here too!
In the next few weeks, we will be adding two new Early Literacy Centers to the Department. This will bring us to 4 early literacy computers!

Here are a few of the new books available for check-out in the Children's Department:


Paula Deen's My First Cookbook-Paula Deen


Hen Hears Gossip-Megan McDonald


Oscar and the Bat: A Book about Sound-Geoff Waring


The Cat's Tale: Why the Years are Named for Animals-Doris Orgel



Monkey with a Tool Belt-Chris Monroe