Meow and Season’s Greetings from your pal Cosmo the Library Cat. December may be dark and cold and often unpleasantly damp, but my friends in the Children’s Room at Grand County Public Library are doing all they can to make it a fun and festive month for our patrons.
The Moab Children’s Room is looking very cheerful. There’s a charming Christmas tree twinkling away. While a lesser cat would already have knocked all the shiny ornaments onto the ground, it takes more than tinsel to turn my head! I’m known for my decorum.
The resident paper owls are getting into the spirit, with little Santa caps of their own. There’s a new holiday-themed scavenger hunt waiting to be discovered. My librarians have also planned some extra fun programs this month!
On Friday, December 13 at 2:30 p.m. the library is partnering with the Moab Valley Multicultural Center to present a special Bilingual Storytime and Christmas party. We’ll read and sing along with the bilingual English/Spanish picture book “A Piñata in a Pine Tree: a Latino Twelve Days of Christmas.” We’ll have a pinata, do an angel craft project, and then we’ll get to eat cookies! (I know I mention cookies an awful lot: they’re definitely one of my favorite inventions!)
The following Wednesday, Santa’s elves will visit the library for “Bedtime Stories at Santa’s Workshop.” That’s December 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the large meeting room at the Moab Library. We’ll read a Christmas story together, decorate cookies and enjoy some hot cocoa. It is also rumored that a magical Christmas Train will be making a special stop at the library that evening! The elves encourage children to wear their favorite cozy jammies and bring their favorite stuffed toy with them too.
Santa’s elves planned ahead and reserved the Moab Library’s large meeting room for this storytime. The library has several meeting spaces available to the public, whether elf or human. To learn more, head to moablibrary.org, then click on “Library Services” and then “Meeting Room Reservations.”
I hope you’ll join us for these festivities or just stop into the library to say “Feliz Navidad!” Meow for now!
