Learn, Love, and Laugh with the Tompkins County Public Library’s Mother – Daughter Book Club

The Tompkins County Public Library invites all girls ages ten through 13 and the special women in their lives to join the Library’s Mother-Daughter Book Club.

In addition to reading and discussing wonderful books each month, participants will have the benefit of being led by acclaimed children’s author Emily Rhoads Johnson. Roads Johnson is the author of Spring and the Shadow Man, A House Full of Strangers and Write Me If You Dare.

“What a bonus to have an author of children’s literature offer insight into the selected novels,” Adelle Leise, youth services librarian, said.

The Mother-Daughter Book Club provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to learn about themselves and others by discussing literature. There is no right or wrong answers during Club meetings, simply open discussions where all input is valued.

The group will meet once a month for seven months in the Thaler/Howell Room. The fifth meeting will be held on February 10, 2008 from 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM.

The title to be discussed for February is Gossamer by Lois Lowry. A complete list of the titles selected for the group can be found at www.tcpl.org/youth/programs/motherdaughter.html.
Registration for the Club is appreciated but not required. For more information, contact Adelle Leise at (607) 272-4557 extension 277.

The Mother-Daughter Book Club is made possible by the Tompkins County Public Library Foundation through a grant from the J.M. McDonald Foundation.