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National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day—Oct. 21st October 2019

fresh pureed), 1/2 cup 4. Add flour, baking sour cream, 1 tsp vanilla, powder, baking soda, Story Times 2 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp cinnamon and salt. at the cinnamon, 1/2 tsp baking 5. Mix in pumpkin and soda, 1/3 tsp (or less) salt Libraries National Pumpkin sour cream. Blend Cheesecake Filling Ingredients: thoroughly until smooth. Day celebrates a deli- 8 oz. cream cheese, 1/3 Bradford Co. Public cious Fall dessert. In cup granulated sugar, 1 6. Pour 1/2 of batter Library October, pumpkins are egg, 1/4 cup canned pump- into a buttered 13x9 literally glowing. So, kin, 1 tbsp corn starch, in. glass baking dish. Preschool Story Time why not put two of 1/2 tsp vanilla 7. Add the filling mix, Wednesday 10am your favorites togeth- Filling Preparation: spreading the batter er.....pumpkins and evenly in the dish. Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 cheesecake!? They 1. In a mixing bowl, beat ingredients until 8. Add remaining batter Toddler Time make a great dessert. very smooth. and lightly swirl into filling. Friday 11am Its easy to enjoy this 2. Set aside and pre- special day. Go to a pare cake batter. 9. Bake for 50 to 55 Oct. 4, 11, 18 & 25 cheesecake store or minutes. 3. Pour into glass dish —————————— bakery, and buy a on top of batter as 10. Allow to cool then cut pumpkin cheesecake. Union Co. Public described in cake into 12 servings. Library Or, better yet, make a instructions. homemade pumpkin cheesecake. It's fun For Cake: Preschool Story Time and its easy. Here is a 1. Pre-heat oven to 350 Thursday 10am & 1pm a Pumpkin Cheesecake degrees. recipe to try. 2. In a large bowl, Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 Cake Ingredients: cream butter, sugar, and vanilla until light 2 Sticks (1cup) Butter, 3 and fluffy. eggs, 2 1/2 cups flour, 1 cup granulated sugar, 1/2 3. Add eggs and beat cup pumpkin (canned or well.

Happy National Candy Corn Day! October 30th

You either small packets at Hallow- Renninger who worked TumbleBooks Online Book Service love it or hate it, een or served in heaping at the Wunderlee Candy there’s little vari- bowls on grandma’s ta- Company in Philadelph- Children can watch talking picture books, ance between ble, Candy Corn is an ia, Pennsylvania during and older children can read the printed the two. Candy Corn, icon of the season, and the later 19th century. word while listening to the audio book. some describe it as waxy you know that Autumn is He created this colorful Available online at and sickeningly sweet, here when it starts show- confection to celebrate www.newriver.lib.fl.us/kids-page and others just can’t ing up. the beauty of corn, and seem to get enough of Candy corn was in- the deep autumnal col- this seasonal treat. vented by a candy- ors. During that time win- Whether handed out in maker named George ter was a long and cold Books to Share We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt Honk! Quack! Boo! By: Steve Metzger By: Tad Hills Girl or something new? She tries many There are lots of beautiful fall leaves Duck is going as a spooky ghost. different costumes, but nothing seems to find! Three friends have a big ad- Goose is going as a brave superhero. right. Maybe she'll think of the perfect venture hiking over a mountain and And Thistle's costume . . . well, that's a costume as she enjoys the autumn through a forest to collect leaves of all secret. But what will Duck and Goose day with her family by pumpkin pick- kinds and colors. What will they do do when they hear a very scary ing and going on a hayride. But it isn't with all their leaves at the end of the swamp monster is looking for them? until Lulu and Bingo help a little girl story? Jump and play in them, of who is lost that Lulu discovers who course! Room on the Broom she was meant to be for Halloween. By: Julia Donaldson Who Loves the Fall? The witch and her cat are happily fly- By: Bob Raczka ing through the sky on a broomstick It's hard when summer ends, but the when the wind picks up and blows hearty season that follows overflows away the witch's hat, then her bow, with holidays, sports, and fun. In this and then her wand! Luckily, three companion to Spring Things, the au- helpful animals find the missing items, thor and illustrator pay tribute to fall. and all they want in return is a ride on the broom. But is there room on the When Autumn Falls broom for so many friends? And By: Kelli Nidey when disaster strikes, will they be able As September fades, a new season to save the witch from a hungry drag- Thanks to Marsie Montgomery, begins. Leaves and temperatures tum- on? Children’s Outreach Assistant ble. And, as autumn falls, new colors at New River Public Library and smells gradually replace the heat Ladybug Girl and the Dress-Up Cooperative , for providing content for this newsletter. and intensity that was summer. Au- Dilemma tumn means the beginning of some- By: David Soman thing new and crisp and familiar. It is Halloween and Lulu must decide on a costume. Should she be Ladybug Happy National Candy Corn Day! October 30th affair, with electricity not quite hav- company has become the Jelly best ways to celebrate Candy Corn ing come into common usage. The Belly Candy Co. Day is by eating a ginormous bright colors of these candies could Although many people will attest amount of candy corn! This sweet last throughout, bringing both joy to the fact that they don’t like this and uniquely flavored treat is avail- and a burst of much-needed sugar treat (just try to find a person who able from just about any conven- during the dark time of the year. claims they love it), this candy is ience store, grocery store, or candy At the beginning of the twenti- extremely popular. How popular is outlet you care to name. eth century, the The Goelitz Con- it? Well, even though it is primarily https://www.daysoftheyear.com fectionery Company began mass sold only around Halloween, 35 mil- http://www.holidayscalendar.com production of this candy. Today, lion pounds of it are produced candy corn is still made by this each year. That is a lot of candy company (as well as many other corn. imitators), but the name of the As if it wasn’t obvious, one of the

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