PETE'S DRAGON EBOOK WIN

HERE’S A CHANCE TO WIN A DOWNLOADABLE APPLE iBOOK OF DISNEY’S JUNIOR NOVEL, PETE’S DRAGON.    

Did you have an invisible friend?  Pete has an invisible friend.  Check out his invisible dragon friend in this new novel Pete’s Dragon, based on the movie of the same name. 

The library is giving away 10 digital* copies of the Pete’s Dragon Junior Novel courtesy of Walt Disney Studios! Read the book and watch the movie. 

For your chance to win, comment below with your favorite childhood book that celebrates friendship and adventure. Screenshot your comment and send it via email** with the subject line “Pete’s Dragon” to cpham@glendaleca.gov .Please include your name. Winners will be selected at random and notified by email only. LAST DAY TO ENTER IS 8/17 @ 6PM!

* Digital download for use on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch devices. 
** We will not be collecting your name or email for any outside purposes of the drawing.

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EVERYBODY DRAW!

Artists of all ages are welcome this Saturday, October 19,  10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Central Branch.   
Celebrate creativity with us! Join us for one of our The Big Draw LA events! 

This family-friendly community drawing project will feature the unique people and places in Glendale. Educator and Nickelodeon artist Kristin Donner will show examples of how different towns and their inhabitants are portrayed in fine art and cartoon art and talk about some simple principles of design. 

Kids and adults will collaborate on a large panel collage of our city skyline and will be able to 'plant' trees they draw as well as draw their families and friends doing the things they do around town. 

The finished collage will be displayed in the Library to show how it takes many people working together using their unique talents to make up our city!

CHALK ON THE WALK NOW!

Come help us decorate the library's walkways with chalk this morning.  Put your infinite imagination to work on our big wide open space.  
EVERYBODY DRAW!  

A collaboration with The Big Draw L.A., the sidewalk chalk drawing is a family event.  Join us Saturday, October 12 from 11-1p.m. in front  of the Central Library Branch on Louise and Harvard.  

Free parking validation for 3 hours across the street in the parking structure.  

A SIDEWALK DRAW DRAW DRAW

As part of the The Big Draw L.A., the Central Library and Children's Room will be hosting Chalk on the Walk, a sidewalk chalk drawing experience.  Come and spend some time drawing all over our walkway.  It's open to kids of all ages. Refreshments will be served.   






Saturday, October 12, 11-1p.m.

Central Library Branch (in front of the library)
222 E. Harvard St. 
Glendale, CA 91205 

We validate for 3 hrs. in the Marketplace parking structure across the street.  

ANOTHER PAULSEN CRACKUP

The Glass Cafe or, the Stripper and the State; How My Mother Started a War With the System That Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous by Gary Paulsen is the really long title of this hilarious tale of how some figure drawings of exotic dancers became part of an art exhibit and landed Tony, a budding artist and his mother, Al, in trouble. The story unfolds in the rambling way of a great storyteller who has you hooked from the first line of this incredible story of an ordinary boy with an extraordinary a mother.

Short and tiny at 99 pages, it is one of the funniest thing I've read in a long time. For mature readers in 6th grade and up. Be sure to read another hilarious boy book by Paulsen, The Amazing Life of Birds: (The Twenty Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech) As Discovered by Gary Paulsen. Stay tuned for more Gary Paulsen book reviews.