CATTAILS JUNE/JULYJUNE/JULY 20212021 FROM THE OUACHITA PARISH PUBLIC LIBRARY SUMMER READING CHALLENGE CHALLENGES AND PRIZES FOR CHILDREN, TEENS AND ADULTS! MAKE ROAD TRIPS FUN WITH AUDIO BOOKS CHOOSE THE PERFECT AUDIO BOOK FOR YOUR ROAD TRIP Ouachita Parish Public Library JOIN THE SUMMER 02-04 READING CHALLENGE! IN THIS ADULT TOP 6 PICKS ISSUE 05-06 ADULT AND TEEN 07-08 PROGRAMS 09-10 TEEN TOP 6 PICKS 11-12 KIDS’ TOP 6 PICKS 13-14 CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS WHAT IS THE SUMMER 15-16 SLIDE? MAKE ROAD TRIPS FUN 17-18 WITH AUDIOBOOKS 19-20 BEACH READS 21-22 FROM THE ARCHIVES A Note on Programs: As of press time, all summer programs will be hosted virtually. If anything changes, the Library will post updates on oplib.org and on Library social media channels. All branches of the Library will close Sunday, June 20 for Father’s Day. Regular hours will resume Monday, June 21. HOLIDAY All branches of the Library will close Sunday, July 4 and Monday, July 5 for Independence Day. Regular hours will CLOSURES resume Tuesday, July 6. 1 OUACHITA PARISH PUBLIC LIBRARY SIGNSIGN UP!UP! What is the summer For the Summer reading challenge? Reading Challenge! Since 1948, the Ouachita Parish Public Library has challenged patrons to read as much as they can during the summer. What started as a reading club for children has expanded to a months-long, themed-celebration for all ages. Children, teens and adults receive fun incentives for reading and completing community challenges. Who can join the summer reading challenge? Anyone with a Ouachita Parish Public Library card can join! There are three age categories for the summer reading challenge, with different page goals, prizes and programs. Children ages 12 and under can join the Kids Category, teens ages 13-19 can join the Teen Category, and adults 18 and up can join the Adult Category. Patrons who are 18 or 19 years old can choose whether they would like to join the Teen or Adult Category. When is the How do I sign up? summer reading challenge? Get started at oplib.org/summerreading. The summer reading challenge is 1 from June 1 - July 31, 2021. 3 If you have participated in the summer What is this year’s reading theme? challenge in the past, log in with The 2021 theme is Tails and Tales, your previous and we’re celebrating everything used username 2 Click on and password. If to do with the animal kingdom. your age this is your first group. time joining, click “Join here” to create an What about account. programs? As of press time, all summer After logging into the summer reading portal, enter the books programs will be hosted virtually. you read and the challenges you complete to win prizes! 4 If anything changes, the Library will post updates on oplib.org and on Library social media channels. CATTAILS JUNE/JULY 2021 2 WIN PRIZES BY READING! HOW DO ALL PRIZES ARE AVAILABLE WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. I WIN Note: Due to COVID shipping delays, PRIZES? prizes may not be immediately available. Book, Tails and Tales drawstring bag, gift 750PAGES 250 certificate for kids meal from Cane’s, PLUS entry into the grand prize drawing (a bicycle provided by the Kiwanis of Greater Ouachita) BRAG TAGS Brag Tags for kids over 3; Inflatable for kids 3 and under 500PAGES Certificate, Cup, 250 Door Hanger and Pencil PAGES INFLATABLES 1,500 PAGES Entry into grand prize drawing (a tablet provided by the Friends of the TEENS Ouachita Public Library) 1,500 Book, gift certificate PAGES for kids meal from 1,000 Collectible Canvas Cane’s, PLUS entry into PAGES Tote Bag grand prize drawing (a tablet provided by the 500 Writing Friends of the Ouachita PAGES Notepad Public Library) Tumbler Cup and 1,000 Sunglasses PAGES ADULTS Drawstring Bag, 500 COLLECTIBLE Headphones, Candy PAGES CANVAS TOTE 3 OUACHITA PARISH PUBLIC LIBRARY GRAND PRIZES There are also grand prizes up for grabs. The grand prize for teens and adults is a tablet provided by the TEENS’ AND ADULTS’ GRAND PRIZE! Friends of the Ouachita Public Library. The Kiwanis of Greater Ouachita is once again donating 10 bicycles for the annual Bikes for Books program. CHILDREN’S Children who complete the summer GRAND PRIZE! reading challenge will be entered into a drawing for a bike. You can receive up to three entries into the drawing for the grand prize. There are multiple ways to enter the grand prize drawing: READ! Kids who read 750 pages, and teens and adults who read 1500 pages will be entered into the grand prize drawing. Make sure to log all your pages in the summer reading portal by July 31. COMPLETE THE COMMUNITY CHALLENGES! In the summer reading portal, log that you have completed the three community challenges, and you will receive a bonus entry into the grand prize drawing. The community challenges are: Find a Heron. Find one Heron Pick Up Litter to Save Our Play Outside. Enjoy the fresh on the Bayou. These statues can Critters. All litter harms our air! Play outside in your back be found in many places around local wildlife! Pick up litter in yard, a local park or the Louisiana Ouachita Parish. your neighborhood for one hour Purchase Gardens & Zoo. or attend a Ouachita Green litter pick-up event. VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE TOP 6 PICK. For a bonus entry into the grand prize drawing, read at least 2 of the Top Do all books count 6 Picks in your age category and vote for your favorite book. In the summer reading portal, click toward the summer on “challenges,” scroll to the bottom, and click on the reading challenge? link under “Vote for your favorite Top 6 Picks.” After voting, you will receive the secret code to enter into Yes! It doesn’t matter what you read, as long the summer reading portal. Top 6 Picks are featured as you read! You can read any of the Top 6 Picks, here in Cattails. books by your favorite author, comic books, picture books, audiobooks and any other book in the world. To log audiobooks, use the number of pages in the print version of the book. CATTAILS JUNE/JULY 2021 4 ADULT TOP 6 PICKS Your librarians handpicked these six books for you to enjoy this summer. Vote for your favorite of the Top 6 Picks in the summer reading portal for an extra entry into the grand prize drawing! The winning book will earn the honor of Ouachita Readers’ Choice. ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL BY JAMES HERRIOT Originally published in the 1970s, this memoir collection by the TRAVELLING CAT English country veterinarian is CHRONICLES beloved by millions worldwide. BY HIRO ARIKAWA The book has been adapted into a TV series multiple times, Told from the point of view of most recently aired this year as a a snarky cat, The Travelling Cat Masterpiece Theatre on PBS. Chronicles is a road trip story like no other. In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the Nana the cat is on a road trip. realities of veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire are very He is not sure where he’s going different from the sterile setting of veterinary school. or why, but it means that he gets to sit in the front seat Some visits are heart-wrenchingly difficult, some are of a silver van with his beloved owner, Satoru. Side by lighthearted and fun, and yet others are inspirational side, they cruise around Japan through the changing and enlightening, such as Herriot’s recollections of poor seasons, visiting Satoru’s old friends. He meets farmers who will scrape their meager earnings together Yoshimine, the brusque and unsentimental farmer to be able to get proper care for their working animals. for whom cats are just ratters; Sugi and Chikako, the From seeing to his patients in the depths of winter on warm-hearted couple who run a pet-friendly B&B; the remotest homesteads to dealing with uncooperative and Kosuke, the mournful husband whose cat-loving owners and critically ill animals, Herriot discovers wife has just left him. There’s even a very special dog the wondrous variety and never-ending challenges of who forces Nana to reassess his disdain for the canine veterinary practice as his humor, compassion, and love species. But what is the purpose of this road trip? And of the animal world shine forth. *Available in print, large why is everyone so interested in Nana? Nana does print, book-on-CD, on the cloudLibrary app as both an not know and Satoru won’t say. But when Nana finally e-book and e-audiobook, and on the Hoopla app as an works it out, his small heart will break... *Available in e-book. The 1978 and 2020 television adaptations are print, large print and on cloudLibrary as an e-book and also available for check out on DVD. e-audiobook FOR FANS OF The Great British Baking Show, An Irish FOR FANS OF A Dog’s Way Home, Lily and the Octopus Country Doctor series and Alexander McCall Smith and A Man Called Ove 5 OUACHITA PARISH PUBLIC LIBRARY CARRYING ALBERT THE ART OF RACING IN HOME BY HOMER HICKAM THE RAIN BY GARTH STEIN From the author of Rocket Boys – With more than 6 million copies the basis of the movie October Sky – sold, readers everywhere have been comes a whimsical tall tale about a moved by the novel The Art of Racing man, a woman and an alligator that in the Rain.