Tuesday, January 29, 2013

What story would be our " Feature of the Month"?

Imagination  Creativity  Inspiration 


Neptune Public Library is proud to present 3 stories  from Neptune Children's Writing Club. We would like to hear what you think and help us choose our "Feature of the Month"

Please vote using the poll on the right.
Thank you for your support!




Amazing Flower
By Jasmine King
Age 9

Once upon a time there was an amazing flower.
It was blue, purple, and pink. It was like a rainbow.
Well, no one ever got to see this flower for it was far out in the woods, except for one girl. She was only 3 and was wandering around and she saw the flower. She did not know of its great power so she pulled it out of the ground. A fume came out of the flower flew in the air. She was so amazed. So she took the flower and ran home and hid it for many years.

Until she was a teen, she heard her friends talking about an amazing flower. And then she realized it was her flower that she hid for many years. She wanted to tell everyone but something stopped her every time. She didn't want anyone to have it besides her. She felt bad about this so she finally gave it up. She told her friends and they were all so excited.
Then suddenly the flower started to make fireworks.
It was so amazing!
She treasured the memory for generations and forever.




1st Place
By Bobby Dykeman
Age 11





            It was the day of the Colonial Terrace golf course parent child tournament. My father and I were competing. When I woke up I had the jitters, thinking I was going to do horribly. Only a few more hours to go, I told myself.
            We arrived at the course at 1:50 pm, but our tee time was not until 2:24, so we still had time to practice on the chipping area and putting green. After practicing, we went to the first tee to get our golf cart and to meet the people we would be playing with. I was going to start off our match by teeing up first. CRACK! Off went the ball to land at the 75 foot yard marker. I felt so proud of myself. I was off to play a great game of golf.
            On the next few holes I played pretty well, but on the 5th hole my trouble began. I started hitting balls in the woods, or onto other holes, and they weren't going very far. Sometimes after the practice shots I took I even missed the ball while trying to hit it! I was really embarrassed, and hoped no one noticed.
            After two more holes of embarrassing shots I got my game back together and started hitting better shots. Eventually we got to the last hole and I became a nervous wreck, but I tried not to show it. I guess I did pretty well because I don’t think anyone saw me. Then before I knew it this was all over.



The Caterpillar Journey
By Tia Nicole Miller
Age 12













The wind blows harshly over the soft, damp tree.
The storm was over.
Spring has come.

As the caterpillar lay on a hollow oak nearby, a leaf blew his way.
Not a dead leaf, but a perfectly alive one.
He thought to himself, “How wonderful, I was getting pretty hungry anyway.”
So he got up, and in great acceleration, left his hollow tree to eat the leaf.

“Sticky,” he thought, “ and the freshness is just right.”
Soon after he started he finished.

“All mine," he thought, "this tree is all mine.”
And fell asleep like a bat.

A short while later, he awoke.
“What a great nap, I feel so much better now!”

He tried to get up but fell out of the tree.
“Am I flying?” he thought in amazement.

The caterpillar was astonished, not knowing what he was yet.
Until a little girl, picnicking on some sandwiches nearby pointed his way
And said “Butterfly!”

“I’m a butterfly?” the butterfly thought.

“Cool, but I’m still hungry….” he began.
But no sooner had he thought that when… “Oh wow!”
Thousands of beautiful flowers had bloomed on the trees over the wintertime!

“I sure hope I like cherry blossoms!”






Children's Writing  Club Meeting
@ 6- 7:45 pm
Thursday, February 28



Monday, January 28, 2013

Feature of the Month Winner Announcement


Neptune Public Library, Children's  Writing Club

Congratulations to
Nicole Dykeman 
Your Essay "LEAKYCON"  
Have been voted 
Feature of the Month!

Teen, Tween Book Club Meeting in February

Wednesday, Feb. 13
@3 pm 
Teen Book Club meeting for:
Dreamland 
by Sarah Dressen







Teen club next book will be  
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead


Wednesday, Feb.27
@3:15 - 4:15 pm 
Tween Book Club meeting for:
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
by Grace Lin







Tween club next book will be  
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke


February programs for children and families


Programs for Children age 3 to 8
Drop in Craft

Feb. 1 @ 3:45-4:45
Heart Butterfly
Drop in anytime during the hour
to make this Valenttine's craft


Valentine's Day Party
Feb. 15 @ 3:45-4:45
Celebrate with stories, crafts, games, and snack!





Making music
Feb. 22 @ 3:45-4:45  
Find your rhythm in this program featuring story and crafts









Toddler Storytime
Friday @ 10:30
Stories, fingerplays, & a craft 
For 2 years old 


Feb. 8
Trunk Tales 

@ 10:30 





Feb. 15
Birthday Wishes 

@ 10:30 









Feb. 22
Under the Big Top 
@ 10:30 





Mother Goose Time
Monday @ 10: 30
 Stories, fingerplays, & songs for Babies 
Age 6 to 24 months 

Feb. 4
Winter Lullaby

 @ 10: 30








Feb. 11
 Teddy Time

 @ 10: 30








Feb. 25
Vroom, Vroom



 @ 10: 30






Saturday Family Movies

Feb. 2
Hotel Tansylvania 

@ 2pm









Feb. 9
Peter Pan


 @ 2pm






Black History Month Movies



Feb. 9
A Lesson Before Dying

@ 2pm







Feb. 23
Ruby Bridges

@ 2pm

Saturday, January 19, 2013

January Meeting for Teen, Tween Book Club


Wednesday, January 23
@3:15 - 4:15pm
Tween Book Club meeting for:
Liar. Liar by Gary Paulsen

Our February book will be:
Where the Mountain Meet the Moon
By Grace Lin




Wednesday, January 16
@ 3-4pm
Teen Book Club meeting for
Obsidian by 

Our February next book will be
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen



Wednesday, January 02, 2013

January Programs for Children

Friday Jan 18 



Toddler Storytime
@ 10:30 am
Snow Fun 
Stories, finger rhymes, and a craft
for 2 years old





@3:45 pm
Snow Day
Take a winter break in this program featuring a story and craft
Age: 3-8.




Friday, Jan 25 

Toddler Storytime
@ 10: 30 am
Sweet Dreams 

Stories, finger rhymes, and a craft
for 2 years old





@3:45 pm
Winter Festival
Stories, games, and craft to celebrate the season
Age: 3-8





January Movies

Saturday @2 pm

 Jan 5
Ice Age: Continental Drift









Jan 12
Frankenweenie










Jan 19
Scooby Doo Meets the Boo Brothers 











Jan 26
E.T.


Monday, November 19, 2012

We need your vote to choose our "Feature of the Month"

Imagination  Creativity  Inspiration


Neptune Public Library is proud to present 3 works  from Children's Writing Club. We would like to hear what you think and help us choose our "Feature of the Month"


Please vote using the poll on the right.
Thank you for your support!



Poll counted on January 2, 13 
Moe Moe the Cat: 4 (12%)
Soda Can Story: 4 (12%
LEAKYCON:   23 (74%)


Moe Moe the Cat 
A short story by Ronnie Cornett

  
     Hi! My name is Moe Moe (my owner named me after the monkey from the animated series; Avatar; The Last Air Bender)
and I'm a cat.  I was born on an army base, where I lived until I was adopted by Mateo and his family. 

     Mateo wouldn't let me leave his room when I was little, I had no idea why!   I wanted to escape and explore.

     When I was close to a year old, I was allowed out.  That's when I met Chip, a 13 year old cat owned by the family.   He was the mirror image of me (white with gray and black spots) only alot larger!

     Chip was closest to Mateo's Madre.  If I tried to go near her, he'd hiss and growl his ownership.  He sat on her lap a lot and purred.

     I wanted to play with Chip so I tried to jump on the kitchen table where Chip sat.  WHAP! He smacked me down to the floor with his huge paw which was his way of saying "Beat it kid!".  So  I shook my head and went back for more!  WHAM!  He smacked me again.  This went on about 5 more times till I got sick of going back for more.

     When we got to know each other better, he trusted me a little more, I would lick Chips face then bite it.  He would hiss, strike out at me then walk away.

     When we were outside, we were buddies!  Double teaming dogs, keeping strange cats away, and catching bugs to play with. 
Outside, we were a brotherhood!
   
     But inside, I just couldn't resist trying to ride Chip like a horsie.  That didn't go over well, guess he didn't like my games.

     As Chip and I grew older, Chip couldn't do all he used to, but I still wanted to play. So Madre would yell at me to leave chip alone...sometimes I'd listen, sometimes I couldn't help myself!

     One day when I was 5 and Chip was 18, Madre took Chip to the vet.  He was having trouble walking and she was worried.  The vet must have told her there wasn't anything he could do.  I followed them into Madre's room and sat quietly on the rocking chair to watch.

     Madre held Chip gently on the bed and sang, "I love you, my Chippy, you're my pretty kitty and I will love you forever..."  He gave off a strange Meow.  Madre was crying.  I knew my old friends' life was slipping away. I leaped on the bed to say my good-bye, which was a lick on the face, then I nudged him so he would know I was there.

     I then went back to the rocker, then sat, watched, and waited. Later, when I knew my old friend was gone, I promised him I would take care of Madre and her family.

     Since then, Mateo has moved out to someplace he couldn't take me.  But I've formed a special bond with Mateo's brother, Meep....and till this day I am taking care of Madre and her family, as I promised Chip I would do.  

A Soda Can Story
A Picture book By Wildflower

                                                                                                          
I ‘m a soda can who was drained to the last drop.  Then crunched, and kicked around along the streets of New York City….and ended up in a murky, dirty puddle. Soon people start noticing me. A professor snorts “SOS environment!”; a housewife frowns: “Someone could trip and break a leg!”; a babysitter raises her eyebrows: “Yuck!”; a taxi diver sighs  “ That dirty pothole could eat up my taxi!”  an Indian delivery boy excitedly  kicks dirty water over me “ Look! I’m walking on top of the Empire State Building!”

Now you have the entire picture of a small, empty, crunched soda can lying in a murky puddle which holds the reflection of the famous Empire State Building in it.
But I’m miserable, embarrassed, and helpless.  I wish I had a voice to cry out loud:  Enough people! You think I walk here all by myself?

Then a group of art student arrives on the scene. They make a big fuss over me and the puddle. They take photos. They claim they may just have discovered a symbol of the Big Apple.  I don't understand art but it sounds important and I like it.  I ‘m not just a soda can, I’m a part of this famous city’s symbol.  Who knows? I might end up at the MOMA.  I can’t help letting my daydream fly.
Until …

…a dog and a little girl in a red dress stop next to me.  The dog goes right in and sniffs me.  Stop it Marlon! Leave that poor can alone!”   The little girl commands her dog then she bends to pick me up.  She looks around,  walks over to a recycling trash can and simply drops me into it.

I'm home at last!


  LEAKYCON
An Essay By Nicole Dykeman
           

                                                                                                         

           On August 8, I boarded a plane to Chicago with two of my best friends. We had the experience of a lifetime – and we never even left the hotel. That was one of the many joys of LeakyCon.
            LeakyCon is a Harry Potter convention. Everything and anything magical can be found there…especially the fans. There were over four thousand of us, most staying within the hotel. A lot of these people may have seemed intimidating at first, but from the minute we first got into the elevator with our fellow Harry Potter fans, we just knew it was going to be the best four days of our summers, if not our lives. Every single person we met was so nice to us. We finally met living, breathing proof that there are people that exist that are just as obsessed with Harry Potter as we are. People walked around in full out costumes every single day, and it was just plain awesome. We could make a nerdy joke, and they would understand. It didn’t even have to be related to Harry Potter – Doctor Who, the Hunger Games, almost every fandom you can imagine – there were fans there. It was like finally existing with my own species.
            Not only were the other fans nice to us…so were the stars. We met people from the YouTube famous Starkid group, the masters behind the Potter Puppet Pals, and several people who are in Harry Potter tribute bands. It was pretty insane to see someone just walking around the lobby. We look up to a lot of these people, and to meet them was one of the most brilliant experiences I could have asked for. It was actually hard to wrap my head around the fact that we were staying within the same hotel as all these people. We also got pictures and autographs with quite a few of them…including four actors from the Harry Potter movies!
            A lot of the time, we didn’t even have time to eat lunch or dinner. We stuffed something in our mouths and drank a lot of coffee from the Starbucks in the lobby. The majority of the time we were pretty much running on adrenaline. I regret nothing. Every waking minute was filled with pure awesomeness. We were staying up until one in the morning at concerts, at which we got amazing front row seats I might add. We got in line an hour and a half before they even started because all of the lines were so long they wrapped around the building at least three times, and I’m not exaggerating. However, no one really minded much because we all just mingled. Once, we even ended up playing a game of Apples to Apples with the girls in front of us. Then the next day, we’d be getting up at seven and off to whatever else we had planned because there was just so much to do.
            Next year LeakyCon is in Portland, Oregon (and I’m left here to ask “WHY CAN’T IT BE HERE IN JERSEY? OR EVEN NEW YORK OR PENNSYLVANIA?). It was a stretch to get to Chicago this year, so I doubt I’m going to be attending. But mark my words: my LeakyCon experience is not over!



Children's Writing Club meeting


Thursday, November 29
@ 6-7:45 pm
Children's Writing Club meeting!
Open to all adults and youth who are writing stories for children!


Imagination  Creativity  Inspiration

Friday, October 26, 2012

Holiday Greeting from Neptune Public Library




Tween Book Club November Meeting 



Wednesday January 2,13
@ 3:15 - 4:15 pm
Tween Book Club meeting for:
Middle School The Worst Years of My Life 
By James Patterson




 

Thursday, October 25, 2012

December Program for Children and Families

Pajama Storytime
Tuesday, December 4th
@ 6:30 pm
Come dressed in your PJ's to hear Christmas stories! 
Age 2 up 






Knights of the Round Table

Saturday, December 8th
@ 10:30 am 
Celebrate Medieval Times in this program featuring stories and crafts 
Age 3-8

Christmas Party

 

Friday, December 14th 
@ 3:45 pm

Stories, crafts, games, and refreshment! 

Age: 3-8 






Family Movies

Saturday @ 2 pm

Dec. 1 
ParaNorman







Dec. 8 
Tinkerbell: Secret of the Wings






Dec. 15
Ice Age: Continental Drift



Dec. 29 
Barbie: Princess & the Popstar


Program for Children and Families in November



Mother Goose Time
Monday @ 10:30 am
Nov. 5 Baby Mine
Nov. 19 Teddy Bear Time
Nov. 26 Rainbow Bright

Stories, fingerplays, & songs for babies age 6 to 24 months


Toddler Storytime
Friday @ 10:30am

Nov. 2 Not Beary Scary
Nov. 9 Color My World
Nov. 16 1,2 Buckle My Shoe
Nov. 30 In the Doghouse

Stories, fingerplays & a craft for 2 years old.


Program for Children

Age 3 to Gr. 3
@ 3: 45 pm
Nov. 9 - Little Bear - A story, craft and movie feature Maurice Sendak's beloved character.
Nov. 16 -Turkey Time - Give thanks in this program featuring a story, craft, and refreshments!
Nov. 30 - Book Bingo - Win at Bingo and win a book!


Family Movies

Saturday at 2pm
Nov. 3 - Monster High: Ghouls Rule
Nov. 10 - Arthur Christmas
Nov. 17 Brave