In honor of Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar turning 50 this year, Lake County Libraries will be hosting special birthday story times at our Lakeview, Paisley, and Christmas Valley library branches! Preschoolers and their families can attend these free events at the Paisley Library Tuesday, March 19th at 10:30 AM; at the Lakeview Library Wednesday, March 20th at 10:30 AM; and at the Christmas Valley Library Thursday, March 28th at 10:00 AM.

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​Eric Carle turned the traditional picture book into an interactive object by integrating holes and shortened pages, according to the Eric Carle Museum. “It’s a book you can play with, a toy you can read,” Carle explained about The Very Hungry Caterpillar. He designed it for toddlers and preschoolers, an audience under-recognized by the publishing industry at the time. A new era for picture books was born.
 
In honor of this wonderful book, please come to our a special reading of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, other books by Eric Carle, crafts and activities, and Very Hungry Caterpillar cupcakes!
 
If you would like more information, please contact Youth Library Assistant David Lev at 541-947-6974 or davidl@lakecountylibrary.org. We hope to see you there!

​LAKEVIEW, Ore.—February 1, 2019— Save the dates to spend an evening with best-selling Oregon author Molly Gloss hosted by your local library in Christmas Valley on Thursday, April 25, 2019 and in Lakeview on Friday, April 26, 2019. A fourth-generation Oregonian, Gloss’ work often concerns the landscape, literature, mythology and life of the American West.
 
Gloss’ five novels, including The Hearts of Horses and Falling From Horses, span the time from home-steading the northwest in the 1890s to a near future space colony. “[To] my way of thinking, there’s a continuous line between historical fiction and science fiction. We are every bit as distanced from the past as we are from the future,” says Gloss.
 
Molly Gloss has been awarded the Oregon Book Award, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, the PEN West Fiction Prize, the James Tiptree Jr. Award; as well as a Whiting Writers Award. In her writing she seeks to retell the classic American western story as a narrative of communities and human individuals, shaping it around the realities of the historical West and finding a central place in it for women.
 
This free public program is suitable for adults. More details about the events will be released in March. For more information about this program, please contact Library Director Amy Hutchinson at 541-947-6019 or amyh@lakecountylibrary.org. Connect with the author at  mollygloss.com .