SUMMER READING 2020: PAGE TURNER ADVENTURES
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WEEK 10: Imagine your PIRATE Story 
MONDAY – Show Day
Ahoy! This week we set sail with CAPTAIN BOOK AND THE BOOKANEERS! Kids at home will help the captain find his treasure with a spyglass craft and balloon-powered pirate ship.
Pirate School with David Engel Such a Library - Game and Contest
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TUESDAY – Kids’ Crafts & Activities
Pirate Spyglass Balloon Boats Coloring Sheet
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WEDNESDAY – Author Day
Our guest author is the swashbuckling Melinda Long, author of HOW I BECAME A PIRATE and PIRATES DON’T CHANGE DIAPERS and Tom Lichtenheld, who is perhaps best known for his illustrations of GOOD NIGHT, GOOD NIGHT CONSTRUCTION SITE, but has also written EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT PIRATES.
Melinda Long Tom Lichtenheld
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THURSDAY – Tween Crafts and Activities
Make pirate maps, embossed seashell rubbings, and nautical-themed candles from glass jars.
Nautical Pencil Holder Pirate Map
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FRIDAY – Guest Performer Day: Pirate Billy Bones
If you really want to join our crew, you’ll have to brush up on your pirate lingo with our guest performer, Pirate Billy Bones aka David Engel from David Engel’s Pirate School.
Captain Book & the Book-a-neers
PART 1 PART 2
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WEEK 9: Imagine your THEATER Story 
MONDAY – Show Day
This week, we’re heading to the stage with the very dramatic tale of the DRAMA DRAGON who decides that having too many feelings is just not worth it!
Beethoven and the Mystery Mansion Parts 1 & 2
DRAMA DRAGON – A “dramatic” reading.” HA!
Page Turner Reads Drama Dragon by Riley Roam
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TUESDAY – Kids’ Crafts & Activities
Today, we’ll make Drama Dragon toilet tube puppets and play theater games.
FIRE BREATHING DRAMA DRAGONS! MAD DIRECTOR ACTIVITY
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WEDNESDAY – Author Day
Our guest author is non-fiction superstar Bethany Hegedus, the creator of multiple biographies including RISE!: FROM CAGED BIRD TO POET OF THE PEOPLE, MAYA ANGELOU.
Bethany Hegedus Interview
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THURSDAY – Tween Crafts and Activities
Older kids will learn some fun improv games including zip zap zop and zombie tag. They’ll also make tissue box puppet theaters.
Improv Theater Games Tissue Box Theater
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FRIDAY – Guest Performer Day: The Amazing Mr. A
Our guest performer is the hilarious ventriloquist, Mr. A (aka Richard Adler) and his dragon dummy…er…friend.
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WEEK 8: Imagine your CIRCUS Story 
MONDAY – Show Day
A steamer trunk, a mysterious book, and a hat belonging to Harry Houdini begin THE MAGNIFICENT CIRCUS MYSTERY, an outrageous show filled with magic, juggling, unicycling, and comedy.
The Magnificent Circus Mystery
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TUESDAY – Kids’ Crafts
Kids will make clown bookmarks, as well as their own magical steamer trunks. Older kids will learn how to juggle plastic grocery store bags and how to make their own juggling balls!
Magic Trunk Clown Bookmarks
BONUS – STRESS LESSINATOR! LESS STRESSINATOR!
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WEDNESDAY – Author Day
Our author/illustrator this week is the incredible Don Tate, author and illustrator of STRONGER THAN SANDOW (and many other wonderful books!).
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THURSDAY – Tween Crafts and Activities
Learn how to juggle plastic grocery store bags and how to make your own juggling balls!
Juggling Workshop Make Juggling Balls
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FRIDAY – Guest Performer Day: Jessica Jane Peterson
Our guest performer is world-renowned magician and Houdini historian, Jessica Jane Peterson (Penn & Teller’s Fool Me). Then we’ll take a virtual tour of the International Clown Hall of Fame in Baraboo Wisconsin.
Circus Kirkus BONUS interview – Magician and Houdini expert!
International Clown Hall of Fame
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WEEK 7: Imagine your UNDERWATER Story 
MONDAY – Show Day
It’s time to get wet and wild with this underwater comedy show featuring everyone’s favorite small but mighty superheroes, Melvin the Mantis Shrimp and Agatha the Axiotl.
JUMP INTO WATER SAFETY – EMMY award-winning!
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TUESDAY – Kids’ Crafts
Kids at home will learn tons of weird watery fun facts when they play our trivia game show, GET SOAKED. And everyone can cool off with our sandpaper craft, paper towel tube rainsticks, and bubble art.
Bubble Art Sandpaper Art
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WEDNESDAY – Author Day
We have two amazing writers this week. Author, poet, storyteller, and former librarian, Shutta Crum will make it rain with her book THUNDER BOOMER and Author/Illustrator Janeen Mason will wow us with her OCEAN COMMOTION series of picture books.
BONUS – How to Choose a Good Book by Shutta Crum
Janeen Mason BONUS – Janeen Mason reads Counting the Days
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THURSDAY – Tween Crafts
Kids will love Hydro-Dipping as they create one-of-a-kind designs in this creative craze that’s sweeping Youtube.
Hydro-Dipping Instructions Rainstick Instructions
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FRIDAY – Guest Performer Day: Burl the Bubble Guy
Our guest performer, Burl the Bubble Guy comes to us all the way from Cologne, Germany! And he will blow your mind with an Awesome Bubble Show.
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WEEK 6: Imagine your COOKING Story 
MONDAY – Show Day - The Great Pizza Contest
This week, we head into the kitchen for THE GREAT PIZZA CONTEST show, featuring two feuding pizza makers, Vincent Van Dough and Leonardo Da Munchi as they vie to make the birthday pie for Mayor Ann Chovi.
Bonus Video - World Read Aloud Day
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TUESDAY – Kids’ Recipes & Crafts
Kids will become the people in the town of Mozzarella when they make a pencil-thin mustache craft, paper-plate “flag” pizzas, and a no-bake fruit pizza recipe.
Fruit Pizza Cup Pies
Paper Plate Pizzas
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WEDNESDAY – Author Day
Our guest author is Margaret Dilloway, author of the tasty middle-grade novel, SUMMER OF A THOUSAND PIES.
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THURSDAY – Tween Recipes & Crafts
Flex your cooking chops: Make granola pinwheels, tortilla pizzas, and try not to get any yummy in your pencil mustache!
Tortilla Pizza Pencil Mustaches Granola Pinwheels
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FRIDAY – Field Trip!
Instead of a guest performer, this week we’ll visit Gayon and Willimour Daniel at YOUNG CHEFS ACADEMY-CORAL SPRINGS where they’ll teach us how to whip up even more “half-baked” ideas.
The Noodle Station and Chef Walter
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WEEK 5: Imagine your MUSIC & ART Story 
MONDAY – Show Day - Guerilla Art Challenge
This week kids will travel back in time via a Time Machine Piano so they can save Ludwig Von Beethoven from the musical machinations of the villain, Dr. Crescendo, and his cacophonous cryptic codes.
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TUESDAY – Craft Day
We'll make Australian clapping sticks and mini African drums.
Clapping Sticks Paper Cup Drums
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WEDNESDAY – Author Day
Our writer this week is the awesome Sherri Winston, author of THE SWEETEST SOUND, PRESIDENT OF THE WHOLE FIFTH GRADE, and JADA SLY, ARTIST & SPY.
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THURSDAY – Tween Craft Day
Create sharpie tie-dye tee-shirts and bat puppets (Hey, they use echolocation! Bat Music!).
Book Bats E-Z Tie Dye
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FRIDAY – Guest Performer Day: Blues Phenom Miles Hoyt!
Our guest performer is ten-year-old blues playing phenom, MILES HOYT (and family!).
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WEEK 4: Imagine your ADVENTURE Story 
MONDAY – Show Day - Adventure Story
Kids at home will join Page Turner and Kenny on an Indiana Jones-style adventure as they search for the elusive purple wish lion.
Information Jones
Pirate School
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TUESDAY – Craft Day
On our craft day, kids will make their own paper-plate wish lions, and toilet tube binoculars.
Paper Plate Wish Lions Toilet Paper Tube Binoculars
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WEDNESDAY – Author Day
Our guest writer, Donna Gephart is the winner of the Sid Fleishman Humor award and the author of seven middle grade novels, including her latest adventure…THE PARIS PROJECT.
Donna Gephart Interview Donna Gephart Author Reading
BONUS: Death by Toilet Paper Hamster Rap - How to Survive Middle School Book Trailer
We’ll also talk to Kelly Milner Halls, author of dozens of non-fiction books for kids. We’ll find out if the purple wish lion appears in her latest book, CRYPTID CREATURES: A FIELD GUIDE.
Kelly Milner Halls Illustrator - Esther van den Berg
BONUS: Miss Understood Pop Up Book
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THURSDAY – Tween Craft Day
Older kids will travel to Easter Island where they’ll make megaliths from laundry detergent bottles and masking tape, and tanzuku wishes in honor of Japan’s Tanabata Festival
Easter Island Heads Tanabata Stars
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FRIDAY – Guest Performer Day 
Our guest performers this week are the amazing team at ADVENTURE SANDWICH, they’ll amaze you with their singing and cardboard crafting that you’ll have to see to believe.
Sandwich Adventure
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WEEK 3: Imagine your SCIENCE Story 
MONDAY – Show Day - Steam Show & Steam Lab
It’s full STEAM ahead with DR. LOBOTO’S STEAM LAB AND MOVIE MAGIC Show. We’ll explore the science, technology, engineering, art, and math behind movies and animation while trying to thwart the mad scientist Dr. Loboto and his plan to take over the world.
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TUESDAY – Craft Day
Kids at home will make balloon rockets and early animation devices called Thaumatropes.
Younger Craft - Thaumatropes Older Craft - Balloon Rockets
Thaumatrope Templates - Download and Print: Birdcage & Flowerpot Fishbowl and Saturn Laughing Face & Tree
Create your OWN! ------> Round Blank Square Blank
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WEDNESDAY – Author Day
Our author is Teresa Robeson, this year’s winner of the Asian Pacific American Award for her picture book QUEEN OF PHYSICS.
JJ and Chris Grabenstein Teresa Robeson 
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THURSDAY – Tween Craft Day
Older kids will create phenakistoscopes, another type of animation device. And, with some parental supervision, we’ll attempt to make s’mores in our very own solar ovens.
Phenakistoscope 
Solar Oven
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FRIDAY – Guest Performer Day: Magician and Rockin’ Eco Hero STEVE TRASH!
Please give a rousing welcome for our guest performer - magician, singer, recycling guru, and PBS star - the one and only, Steve Trash! 
Bonus Video - Such a Library Book Trailer
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WEEK 2: Imagine your SPACE Story 
MONDAY – Show Day - The Book from Outer Space Bonus Video - Pie in the Sky
We kick off the week with THE BOOK FROM OUTER SPACE. In this comedy adventure show, the kids at home must help Pixel the Librarian save the Intergalactic Library from destruction!
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TUESDAY – Craft Day
On our first craft-day, we’ll be making paper-plate flying saucers and alien pipe-cleaner finger puppets.
Younger Craft - Space Slug Older Craft - Alien Frisbee
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WEDNESDAY – Author Day
Our guest author is Lori Haskins Houran, author of over 50 books for young readers, including her most recent picture book, SPACE MICE. We’ll also meet the illustrator of SPACE MICE, Priscilla Alpaugh.
Lori Haskins Hourin Lori Haskins Hourin Part 2
Space Mice illustrated by Priscilla Alpaugh
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THURSDAY – Tween Craft Day
Our crafts Space Case bags from duct tape and zip lock baggies, while older kids will conduct a fizzing “space ball” experiment/craft. They’ll also make duct tape “space cases.”
Fizzball Planet Craft Space Case Craft
Bonus Video - Emission Impossible
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FRIDAY – Guest Performer Day: Janet Ivey from Janet’s Planet
Our Guest Performer, EMMY award winner Janet Ivey, will be zooming all the way to us from her science-themed PBS show Janet’s Planet.
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WEEK 1: Imagine your FAIRYTALE Story 
MONDAY – Show Day
Once upon a time…
It’s our first adventure through the Once Upon a Time Machine as we head into THE MIXED-UP FAIRYTALE Show featuring some of your favorite fairytale characters and a real ten-foot-tall giant!
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TUESDAY – Younger Kids Craft Day
This week we’ll make paper bag gingerbread houses and Little Red Riding Hood’s no-bake cookies.
Fairytale Paperbag Houses 
Little Red Riding Hood’s Cookies
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WEDNESDAY – Author day
We have two guest authors for our kick-off week, including the man behind MR. LEMONCELLO’S LIBRARY, Chris Grabenstein, AND librarian, storyteller, and PRESIDENT-ELECT OF ALSC, Lucia Gonzalez
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THURSDAY – Tween Craft Day
Our activity & craft for older kids is playing fairytale Madlibs and designing magical “golden” eggs.
Younger Craft - Fairytale Madlibs Older Craft - Pysanky Eggs
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FRIDAY – Guest Performer Day
Librarians will recognize our guest performer, Grammy Winning Family Funk Phenomenon, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo from his many years of producing music for CSLP and being the CSLP Reading Champion.
More info on Secret Agent 23 Skidoo can be found on his website at www.secretagent23skidoo.com. And, if you want to find out more about VIRTUAL rhyme writing workshops, check out THIS VIDEO and then email sarah@www.dandelionartists.com.