Dreamer Badge
Dress Funny to Connect Your Summer
| Day | Theme | Badge |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, August 8 | Animal Clothing | Animal Lover |
| Tuesday, August 9 | Crazy Hat | Entertainent |
| Wednesday, August 10 | Pajamas | Dreamer |
| Thursday, August 11 | Mis-match | Artist |
| Friday, August 12 | Dress Like a Tourist | Traveler |
- Brad Czerniak
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Make Your Own Memory In A Box
There's still plenty of space available in our Make Your Own Memory In a Box program for tweens. Fifth and sixth graders — do you like scrapbooking? Then come and decorate a box to hold a special memory, just like a scrapbook page. Bring a few photos to glue on; we will provide boxes and crafting supplies. Register online beginning July 14thProgram Date: Thursday, July 28, 10:00-10:45AM
[Photo by Carissa Rogers, used under Creative Commons License.]
Digital Scrapbooking
Create a beautiful scrapbook the digital way. Bring a flash drive with a few of your pictures to play with, or instructor Dawn Montagano will have plenty for you to do. This is cutting edge scrapping with beautiful results. Join us on June 30 at 7:00PM in the Internet Lab. Registration is required as space is limited.
Reading a Teenage Dream Tonight
Dream girl by Lauren Mechling
Dream factory by Brad Barkley & Heather Hepler
Dream journal by Karen Halvorsen Schreck
Dream spinner by Bonnie Dobkin
Dream Books That Won’t Put you to Sleep

If you're looking for books and more about dreaming, check out the following:
Active dreaming: journeying beyond self-limitation to a life of wild freedom by Robert Moss
The secret history of dreaming by Robert Moss
Dreaming souls: sleep, dreams, and the evolution of the conscious mind by Owen Flanagan
Dreams Books for Kids
Alex Fitzgerald's cure for nightmares by Kathleen Krull; illustrated by Wendy Edelson
Another day in the Milky Way by David Milgrim
Ben's dream: story and pictures by Chris Van Allsburg
The Berenstain bears and the bad dream by Stan & Jan Berenstain
Park and Read Passes
Since we have distributed our limit for passes this year, the 2012 Park and Read program at CPL is over.
The Michigan DNR Park and Read program allows library cardholders the ability to check out a one-day pass into any Michigan state park or recreation area in lieu of the $6 resident daily motor vehicle entrance permit. Many parks will also have a hammock available at no charge for Park and Read participants to borrow while on-site for the day so they can fully enjoy a great book in Michigan's great outdoors.Park and Read passes are available for one week at a time and cannot be renewed.
Surreal Summer Library Programs
Children's programs
- Dear Dumb, Dork and Wimpy Diaries — July 7, 2:00-2:45PM
Tween programs
- Dear Dumb, Dork and Wimpy Diaries — July 7, 2:00-2:45PM
- Memory Box — July 28, 10:00-10:45AM
Teen programs
- Creative Writing, Discovering Your Inner Voice from 10:00-11:15AM on:
- June 25
- July 9
- July 23
- August 6
- August 13
Adult programs
- Your Pecha Kucha — July 27, 7:00-8:30PM
- Adults Writing Children's Lit Group — July 16 and August 27, 2:00-3:00PM
Dear Dumb, Dork and Wimpy Diaries
Kids, Tweens, ages 7-11, are you fans of the Dork Diaries, Dear Dumb Diary, or Diary of a Wimpy Kid books? Get together with other fans and share your opinions about your favorite diary series. You will also have a chance to get a start on your own personal diary.When: Thursday, July, 7th, 2:00-2:45PM
Where: Purple Room
Registration begins June 23rd
Adult Fiction Writers' Group
Interested in writing fiction, all types of media or genres, for an adult audience? Join us on Thursday, June 23rd from 6:00-7:00PM for our Adult Fiction Writers' Group.Dave Richards, a library assistant and a freelance writer for the Eisner Award winning website, Comic Book Resources, moderates. Dave has completed an unpublished science fiction mystery novel and is currently writing a horror novel.
