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505 Janes AvenueSaginaw, MI 48607
November / 2021November / 2021
www.saginawlibrary.org
NON-PROFIT ORGU.S. POSTAGE
PAID
PERMIT NO. 96SAGINAW, MI
It’s a Take-n-Make Party!
BBeyond theeyond theookshelfookshelfBB
Kids! Want to celebrate the spirit of Thanksgiving a few weeks early? Come to Butman-Fish Library between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday, November 13 for a Thanksgiving Take-n-Make bag while supplies last!
Together We Inspire . . .
Crafts to GoZauelMondays – after 2 p.m.
Wiggle BotsHoyt Children’s DepartmentMondays – 6 p.m.
Take & Make KitsHoyt Children’s DepartmentFridays – All Day(Except November 26)
Preschool StorytimeButman-FishFridays – 10:30 a.m.(Except November 26)
Preschool StorytimeZauelSaturdays – 10:30 a.m.
Books to MoviesHoyt AuditoriumSaturdays – 2 p.m.(Except November 20)
Great Reads Book ClubHoyt AuditoriumNovember 2 – 2:15 p.m.
Adult ScrabbleButman-FishNovember 8 – 5 p.m.
Design Time To GoWickesNovember 9
Holiday Bracelet MakingZauelNovember 9 – 7 p.m.
Computer BasicsHoyt Computer LabNovember 10 – 4 p.m.
Hello Hoyt!HoytNovember 10 – 6:30 p.m.
Mother Goose’s Rock & Rhyme Puppet ShowFacebookNovember 11
Thanksgiving Take-n-MakeButman-FishNovember 13 – All Day
Pages of History Book ClubCastle MuseumNovember 16 – Noon
Adult Coloring ClubButman-FishNovember 16 – 1–2:30 p.m.
Take & Make BowsHoyt Reference DeskNovember 17 – All Day
Make a Macramé KeychainHoyt Mezzanine RoomNovember 17 – 6 p.m.
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book ClubZauelNovember 18 – 7 p.m.
PRIDE Christmas ParadeDowntown SaginawNovember 20 – 11 a.m.
Family Holiday BingoHoytNovember 20 – 2–3 p.m.
Read to a Therapy DogButman-FishNovember 20 – 3 p.m.
Design Time To GoWickesNovember 23
Internet BasicsHoyt Computer LabNovember 24 – 4 p.m.
Mother Goose’s Rock & Rhyme Puppet ShowFacebookNovember 25
Branch HoursButman-Fish Library
Monday-Thursday 11am-7pmFriday & Saturday 9am-5pm
Hoyt LibraryMonday-Thursday 9am-8pmFriday & Saturday 9am-5pm
Wickes LibraryMonday-Thursday Noon-6pm
Saturday Noon-5pmZauel Library
Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday 9am-9pmWednesday Noon-9pm
Friday & Saturday 9am-5pm
Make a Decorative BowAdults! Learn to make decorative bows using wired ribbon in this holiday-themed take and make craft at Hoyt Library. Stop by during library hours on November 17 to pick up your kit! This simple craft can be used for tree toppers, wreaths, or on gifts.
TALK: Text and Learn for KindergartenTALK: Text and Learn for Kindergarten is a great resource for parents who would like ideas for quick and easy things they can do to help their children be ready for school.
The TALK service sends two text messages each week suggesting activities that parents and caregivers can easily incorporate into daily routines with their children. The service also notifies parents of free activities and services at the Public Libraries of Saginaw!
TALK is available to parents and caregivers in Michigan with children ages 5 and under, and will officially launch on November 1. Parents can sign up by texting TALK to 75547 or visiting www.texttolearn.com.
The service is funded in part by a National Leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant allows TALK, originally created by libraries in Washtenaw County, to be used by all public libraries in Michigan to support early learning in their communities.
TALK is derived from the research-based program Every Child Ready to Read, which promotes five practices to build essential pre-reading skills:
reading, singing, talking, writing and playing. Each message begins with one of the five practices and details an activity parents can use to help their child develop early literacy skills. But content goes beyond literacy and helps parents build other important skills such as pre-math and social emotional skills.
While the service is available and valuable to every family, the goal is to reach parents who may not otherwise have the time or the ability to attend library programs. It is available in English and Spanish. The hope is that at the end of the grant period, the service will be ready to be used by libraries throughout the country.
All Library Branches Will Be Closed:
November 25 &
November 26
Normal Hours Resume:November 27
Weekly Events: Events:
Visit saginawlibrary.org for the latest updates!
Strangeworlds Travel AgencyBy L.D. Lapinski
Middle Grade Fiction
“There have always been places in our world where magic gathers.
“You can see it, if you look close enough.”
– L.D. Lapinski
If you’d like to go on adventure with a new author, then Strangeworlds Travel Agency by L.D. Lapinski is for you. Flick Hudson and her family have moved to a new town, and on a whim she wanders into the Strangeworlds Travel Agency. There she discovers an amazing secret. There are hundreds of other worlds to explore! Flick is invited to join the magical society of travelers. She only has to jump through the right suitcase. Danger awaits Flick and her travel partner Jonathan as they embark on a journey to save the city of Five Lights. They are racing against time through unchartered worlds to save the city at the center of the world. It is in danger of disappearing and taking the rest of the worlds with it.
Strangeworlds Travel Agency is a wonderful new page-turner that will keep middle grade readers excited for what comes next in book two.
Reviewed by Melissa McCarthyZauel Library
From the PagesHello, Hoyt!
Holidays in the Heart of the City, Saginaw’s annual festival kicking off the holiday season, is set to return the weekend of November 19 & 20. The fun starts Friday night at 5:30 p.m. with free Christmas Concerts, horse-drawn wagon rides on Ezra Rust Drive, free kids’ pony rides at Borchard Park, food vendors, and open houses at many venues including the Childrens’ Zoo, Andersen Enrichment Center, Japanese Tea House, The Montague Inn and the Mexican American Council.
The next morning, after you’ve enjoyed the PRIDE Christmas parade at 11 a.m., Hoyt Library is hosting a Family Holiday BINGO party from 2 to 3 p.m. Come on in to the library for prizes, music, and treats!
Holidays in the Heart of the City
Great Reads! Book Club Launches at Hoyt
Come in to Butman-Fish Library any time to try to identify the author of the weekly posted children’s book title. Use the online catalog, the Internet, or browse the shelves. You can even ask a librarian if you need help! Submit your guess and be entered into a monthly drawing!
Identify the AuthorWiggle-Bots are motorized contraptions that are designed and built by kids. Ages 6 through 12 are invited to Hoyt Library on Monday nights at 6 p.m. this month for an hour of time with the Wiggle-
Bots. What will you create?
How Will You Wiggle?
Hello Hoyt! is a tour-like program to show patrons what their library has to offer. We’ve got free meeting room rentals, the third-largest genealogy department in the state, and SO many ways to access free content like movies, music, and books – many accessible on-demand from wherever you are! Join us Wednesday, November 10 at 6:30 p.m. to learn all the insider tips and tricks to get the most out of your library. Call (989) 755-0904 or visit
www.saginawlibrary.org/events to register.
“I’m in a reading rut!” “I don’t know what to read!”
“I want to read something different!”
If you’ve said any of these things, the Great Reads! Book Club at Hoyt is the book club for you! We will be reading a different book every month and then discussing it in-depth as a group in the Hoyt
Auditorium on the first Tuesday of the month at 2:15 p.m.
Join us in the Hoyt auditorium November 2 at 2:15 for an afternoon of enlightenment and thought-provoking discussion. This month’s book is The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, which is also the 2021-22 Great Lakes Bay Big Read selection! Free copies are available at the Hoyt Reference Desk! Call (989) 755-0904 or visit www.saginawlibrary.org/events for more information or to register.
Holiday Bracelet Making
International Games Week is an initiative run by volunteers from around the world to reconnect communities through their libraries around the educational, recreational, and social value of all types of games.
This year, International Games Week is November 7–13, 2021. Come out to Butman-Fish Library on Monday, November 8 at 5 p.m. to help celebrate at Adult Scrabble Club!
Looking for Another Book Club to Join?Pages of History Book Club
Castle Museum, 505 Federal Ave.Tuesday, November 16 at Noon
November’s selection is: The Deer Camp: a Memoir of a Father, a Family and the Land that Healed Them by Dean Kuipers.
Register today for this jewelry-making workshop for teens and adults at Zauel Library on Tuesday, November 9 at 7 p.m. You will learn how to make a simple, but decorative bracelet with holiday charms. Call (989) 799-2771 or visit www.saginawlibrary.org/events/holiday-bracelet-making for more information or to register!
November Means Novel WritingTo aspiring and published authors alike, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Begun in 1999 as an online challenge to write 50,000 words of a book in 30 days, today hundreds of thousands of people across the world have participated.
If you are one of them and have contemplated self-publishing your
manuscript, try the free tools available to you through the Public Libraries of Saginaw! You can create, format, design, and produce professional-quality book files – all at no cost, at saginawlibrary.pressbooks.pub.
You retain complete ownership of your works and can upload, sell, market, or distribute your print-ready or eBook files anywhere you see fit – including the library’s Indie Author Project eBook collection.
International Games Week
Books Turned Into MoviesHoyt Library is continuing its matinee series on select Saturdays this month. November’s theme is “Books to Movies”. Join us in the Hoyt Auditorium at 2 p.m. on November 6, 13, & 27 for three films that are based on books!
Visit www.saginawlibrary.org for the latest event updates!
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book ClubZauel Library
Thursday, November 18 at 7 p.m.
November’s selection is: An Unkindness of Ghostsby Rivers Solomon.
November 6Matilda
(1996, PG)
November 13Hidden Figures
(2016, PG)
November 27Little Women (2019, PG)
Strangeworlds Travel AgencyBy L.D. Lapinski
Middle Grade Fiction
“There have always been places in our world where magic gathers.
“You can see it, if you look close enough.”
– L.D. Lapinski
If you’d like to go on adventure with a new author, then Strangeworlds Travel Agency by L.D. Lapinski is for you. Flick Hudson and her family have moved to a new town, and on a whim she wanders into the Strangeworlds Travel Agency. There she discovers an amazing secret. There are hundreds of other worlds to explore! Flick is invited to join the magical society of travelers. She only has to jump through the right suitcase. Danger awaits Flick and her travel partner Jonathan as they embark on a journey to save the city of Five Lights. They are racing against time through unchartered worlds to save the city at the center of the world. It is in danger of disappearing and taking the rest of the worlds with it.
Strangeworlds Travel Agency is a wonderful new page-turner that will keep middle grade readers excited for what comes next in book two.
Reviewed by Melissa McCarthyZauel Library
From the PagesHello, Hoyt!
Holidays in the Heart of the City, Saginaw’s annual festival kicking off the holiday season, is set to return the weekend of November 19 & 20. The fun starts Friday night at 5:30 p.m. with free Christmas Concerts, horse-drawn wagon rides on Ezra Rust Drive, free kids’ pony rides at Borchard Park, food vendors, and open houses at many venues including the Childrens’ Zoo, Andersen Enrichment Center, Japanese Tea House, The Montague Inn and the Mexican American Council.
The next morning, after you’ve enjoyed the PRIDE Christmas parade at 11 a.m., Hoyt Library is hosting a Family Holiday BINGO party from 2 to 3 p.m. Come on in to the library for prizes, music, and treats!
Holidays in the Heart of the City
Great Reads! Book Club Launches at Hoyt
Come in to Butman-Fish Library any time to try to identify the author of the weekly posted children’s book title. Use the online catalog, the Internet, or browse the shelves. You can even ask a librarian if you need help! Submit your guess and be entered into a monthly drawing!
Identify the AuthorWiggle-Bots are motorized contraptions that are designed and built by kids. Ages 6 through 12 are invited to Hoyt Library on Monday nights at 6 p.m. this month for an hour of time with the Wiggle-
Bots. What will you create?
How Will You Wiggle?
Hello Hoyt! is a tour-like program to show patrons what their library has to offer. We’ve got free meeting room rentals, the third-largest genealogy department in the state, and SO many ways to access free content like movies, music, and books – many accessible on-demand from wherever you are! Join us Wednesday, November 10 at 6:30 p.m. to learn all the insider tips and tricks to get the most out of your library. Call (989) 755-0904 or visit
www.saginawlibrary.org/events to register.
“I’m in a reading rut!” “I don’t know what to read!”
“I want to read something different!”
If you’ve said any of these things, the Great Reads! Book Club at Hoyt is the book club for you! We will be reading a different book every month and then discussing it in-depth as a group in the Hoyt
Auditorium on the first Tuesday of the month at 2:15 p.m.
Join us in the Hoyt auditorium November 2 at 2:15 for an afternoon of enlightenment and thought-provoking discussion. This month’s book is The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, which is also the 2021-22 Great Lakes Bay Big Read selection! Free copies are available at the Hoyt Reference Desk! Call (989) 755-0904 or visit www.saginawlibrary.org/events for more information or to register.
Holiday Bracelet Making
International Games Week is an initiative run by volunteers from around the world to reconnect communities through their libraries around the educational, recreational, and social value of all types of games.
This year, International Games Week is November 7–13, 2021. Come out to Butman-Fish Library on Monday, November 8 at 5 p.m. to help celebrate at Adult Scrabble Club!
Looking for Another Book Club to Join?Pages of History Book Club
Castle Museum, 505 Federal Ave.Tuesday, November 16 at Noon
November’s selection is: The Deer Camp: a Memoir of a Father, a Family and the Land that Healed Them by Dean Kuipers.
Register today for this jewelry-making workshop for teens and adults at Zauel Library on Tuesday, November 9 at 7 p.m. You will learn how to make a simple, but decorative bracelet with holiday charms. Call (989) 799-2771 or visit www.saginawlibrary.org/events/holiday-bracelet-making for more information or to register!
November Means Novel WritingTo aspiring and published authors alike, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Begun in 1999 as an online challenge to write 50,000 words of a book in 30 days, today hundreds of thousands of people across the world have participated.
If you are one of them and have contemplated self-publishing your
manuscript, try the free tools available to you through the Public Libraries of Saginaw! You can create, format, design, and produce professional-quality book files – all at no cost, at saginawlibrary.pressbooks.pub.
You retain complete ownership of your works and can upload, sell, market, or distribute your print-ready or eBook files anywhere you see fit – including the library’s Indie Author Project eBook collection.
International Games Week
Books Turned Into MoviesHoyt Library is continuing its matinee series on select Saturdays this month. November’s theme is “Books to Movies”. Join us in the Hoyt Auditorium at 2 p.m. on November 6, 13, & 27 for three films that are based on books!
Visit www.saginawlibrary.org for the latest event updates!
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book ClubZauel Library
Thursday, November 18 at 7 p.m.
November’s selection is: An Unkindness of Ghostsby Rivers Solomon.
November 6Matilda
(1996, PG)
November 13Hidden Figures
(2016, PG)
November 27Little Women (2019, PG)
505 Janes AvenueSaginaw, MI 48607
November / 2021November / 2021
www.saginawlibrary.org
NON-PROFIT ORGU.S. POSTAGE
PAID
PERMIT NO. 96SAGINAW, MI
It’s a Take-n-Make Party!
BBeyond theeyond theookshelfookshelfBB
Kids! Want to celebrate the spirit of Thanksgiving a few weeks early? Come to Butman-Fish Library between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday, November 13 for a Thanksgiving Take-n-Make bag while supplies last!
Together We Inspire . . .
Crafts to GoZauelMondays – after 2 p.m.
Wiggle BotsHoyt Children’s DepartmentMondays – 6 p.m.
Take & Make KitsHoyt Children’s DepartmentFridays – All Day(Except November 26)
Preschool StorytimeButman-FishFridays – 10:30 a.m.(Except November 26)
Preschool StorytimeZauelSaturdays – 10:30 a.m.
Books to MoviesHoyt AuditoriumSaturdays – 2 p.m.(Except November 20)
Great Reads Book ClubHoyt AuditoriumNovember 2 – 2:15 p.m.
Adult ScrabbleButman-FishNovember 8 – 5 p.m.
Design Time To GoWickesNovember 9
Holiday Bracelet MakingZauelNovember 9 – 7 p.m.
Computer BasicsHoyt Computer LabNovember 10 – 4 p.m.
Hello Hoyt!HoytNovember 10 – 6:30 p.m.
Mother Goose’s Rock & Rhyme Puppet ShowFacebookNovember 11
Thanksgiving Take-n-MakeButman-FishNovember 13 – All Day
Pages of History Book ClubCastle MuseumNovember 16 – Noon
Adult Coloring ClubButman-FishNovember 16 – 1–2:30 p.m.
Take & Make BowsHoyt Reference DeskNovember 17 – All Day
Make a Macramé KeychainHoyt Mezzanine RoomNovember 17 – 6 p.m.
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book ClubZauelNovember 18 – 7 p.m.
PRIDE Christmas ParadeDowntown SaginawNovember 20 – 11 a.m.
Family Holiday BingoHoytNovember 20 – 2–3 p.m.
Read to a Therapy DogButman-FishNovember 20 – 3 p.m.
Design Time To GoWickesNovember 23
Internet BasicsHoyt Computer LabNovember 24 – 4 p.m.
Mother Goose’s Rock & Rhyme Puppet ShowFacebookNovember 25
Branch HoursButman-Fish Library
Monday-Thursday 11am-7pmFriday & Saturday 9am-5pm
Hoyt LibraryMonday-Thursday 9am-8pmFriday & Saturday 9am-5pm
Wickes LibraryMonday-Thursday Noon-6pm
Saturday Noon-5pmZauel Library
Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday 9am-9pmWednesday Noon-9pm
Friday & Saturday 9am-5pm
Make a Decorative BowAdults! Learn to make decorative bows using wired ribbon in this holiday-themed take and make craft at Hoyt Library. Stop by during library hours on November 17 to pick up your kit! This simple craft can be used for tree toppers, wreaths, or on gifts.
TALK: Text and Learn for KindergartenTALK: Text and Learn for Kindergarten is a great resource for parents who would like ideas for quick and easy things they can do to help their children be ready for school.
The TALK service sends two text messages each week suggesting activities that parents and caregivers can easily incorporate into daily routines with their children. The service also notifies parents of free activities and services at the Public Libraries of Saginaw!
TALK is available to parents and caregivers in Michigan with children ages 5 and under, and will officially launch on November 1. Parents can sign up by texting TALK to 75547 or visiting www.texttolearn.com.
The service is funded in part by a National Leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant allows TALK, originally created by libraries in Washtenaw County, to be used by all public libraries in Michigan to support early learning in their communities.
TALK is derived from the research-based program Every Child Ready to Read, which promotes five practices to build essential pre-reading skills:
reading, singing, talking, writing and playing. Each message begins with one of the five practices and details an activity parents can use to help their child develop early literacy skills. But content goes beyond literacy and helps parents build other important skills such as pre-math and social emotional skills.
While the service is available and valuable to every family, the goal is to reach parents who may not otherwise have the time or the ability to attend library programs. It is available in English and Spanish. The hope is that at the end of the grant period, the service will be ready to be used by libraries throughout the country.
All Library Branches Will Be Closed:
November 25 &
November 26
Normal Hours Resume:November 27
Weekly Events: Events:
Visit saginawlibrary.org for the latest updates!