Cooke County Library

At Tuesday's afternoon children's class, Ms. Cymre read books about tiny dinosaurs. Then the kids made fingerprint dinosaurs.

Starting next Tuesday, June 9th, our children's classes will look like the following:

10:30 am - Ages 0-4 in the meeting room.

10:30 am - Ages 5+ in the children's area.

2:30 pm - all ages in the meeting room.

Each class will have the same theme for the day. Choose the class that works best for your family!

This program is made possible thanks to a 2026 Save the Children US Summer Reading Grant.

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Our first Summer Reading participants have completed their reading logs! Congratulations to two great readers!

This week our Summer Reading sign up stats are looking like:

205 kids

43 teens

35 adults

You have until June 15 to sign up!

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Tuesday we celebrated our Summer Reading kickoff with a visit from Aubrey Oaks Alpacas. Mrs. Kim read the book, "Alpacas Make Terrible Librarians".

Then the kids got to pet the alpacas and "greet" them with a hello. Did you know an alpaca says hello by touching their nose to your nose?

This program was made possible thanks to a 2026 Save the Children US Summer Reading Grant.

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What if dinosaurs came back? Would they walk our streets? Would they eat our food?

Today's Art in the Stacks class drew a city and made a dinosaur collage. They also received a book about artist, Frida Kahlo .

This program is made possible thanks to a 2026 Save the Children grant.

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The library's bilingual class gained early literacy and early language skills with Ms. Itzel. They love singing familiar songs in both English and Spanish.

The children at Edison Elementary created artwork to display at the library! Come in to see it through May 2.

Artwork on display was created under the instruction of Ms. Jessica Borden. Classroom teachers include:

Ms. Pyron's Kindergarten

Ms. Cole's 1st Grade

Ms. Roy's 1st Grade

Did you know story time at Chick-fil-A Gainesville (TX) (Gainesville, TX) is back?! On the 2nd Monday of each month you can join library staff for stories, songs, and an activity. Our April theme was all about spring. We loved seeing your smiling faces again!

This week was full of library tours! Students from Era Elementary also made a visit to the library. They discussed the benefits of a babies (and kids) getting a library card. Then they played with LEGOs.

The Sivells Bend ISD students visited the library on Friday to see the artwork they created. They also went on a library tour and built with LEGOs.

If YOU want to see their artwork, it is on display through April 18th at the library.

The Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Gainesville class visited the library this week. Thank you for coming in and learning about the ways our library serves this community!

This week we featured books from the Texas 2x2 Reading List. These picture books are selected by Texas librarians as stand-out read-alouds for children ages 2 to 2nd grade.

The children's class participants learned the ASL sign for "turtle" this week. They also did a community coloring activity to color spring flowers.

Sacred Heart Catholic School Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms created artwork to display at the library. Come in to see it through April 2nd!

The kids had so much fun over spring break reading and learning with Ms. Cymre in our weekly children's classes. Join us Tuesday at 10:30 or 2:30 for this early learning opportunity.

Our children's bilingual class had fun labeling the human body in SPANISH! Be sure to join this class the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 10:30.

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We completed TWO full weeks of spring break fun. The kids built so many great things at Literary LEGOs, including a mini version of the LIBRARY!

Art in the Stacks x2. Our spring break weeks have been full of classes. Last week the kids painted donuts. This week they made a cupcake collage.

If you were a kid, which of these projects would you make?