CLSC Young Readers

For the CLSC Young Readers program in Week Three, it’s not so much about “The Art of Play,” but the

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder is the selection for the CLSC Young Readers for Week Two.

  E. B. White once wrote in a letter to his editor saying, “I would rather wait a year than

Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown’s world is turned upside down when she and her family move from Los Angeles to a farm.

Seventy-two years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. An estimated 39,000 people died. Six-year-old

Julia Marks might be small, but that doesn’t stop her from having a big personality. Julia is Holly Goldberg Sloan’s

All children should be able to see themselves on the shelves of the library. But according to Lee & Low

A monk, a Jew and a peasant walk into an inn. What follows isn’t a punchline, but a heartwarming tale

What do a confused, lonely robot and Benjamin Franklin have in common? They both teach children the power of invention

His artwork has transformed some of the most imaginative stories into some of the most visually recognizable books in children’s literature, but author and illustrator Eric Rohmann said you still can’t judge a book by its cover. Rohmann, a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator whose pictures appear on book covers like Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass, traveled to Chautauqua for the Highlights conference this week. He will visit the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Young Readers program at 4:15 p.m. today in Room 203 of Turner Community Center. This week’s Young Readers selection is Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz by Beverly Gherman.

“I am the Pablo bird, bird of a single feather, I fly in the clear shadows and the confused light.” These are the words of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. A writer with a strong political opinion, Neruda was originally Neftalí Reyes but changed his name to save his father the embarrassment of having a poet for a son.

The sun dazzled Mole’s sleepy eyes as he poked his nose out from his chilly underground home into the sweet-smelling spring air of the English countryside. The thrill of adventure beckoned as Mole set off in pursuit of what would soon become one of the most beloved tales of children’s literature, The Wind in the Willows. At 4:15 p.m. today in the Garden Room of Alumni Hall, the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Young Readers Program will meet to discuss the most binding theme of this classic novel — friendship.