A Story In Motion

SUMMER READING PROGRAM SHOWS & CLASSES, 2026

This is my favorite photo taken by one of my very favorite librarians, Ms. Janet Perez of St. Bernard Parish Library. And it's always the perfect one to share for Summer Reading Program Performance announcements. So, here we go!

You can find me in the following locations, sharing Tales With a Twist: Stories That Move! and flying lessons on the Aerial Rig!

St. Tammany Parish Library * Tales With a Twist: Stories That Move!
June 9: Abita Springs 10:30 am & Mandeville, 2:30 pm
June 10: Covington, 2:30 pm
June 11: Folsom, 10:30 am & Madisonville, 2:30 pm
June 30: Pearl River, 10:30 am & S. Slidell, 2:30 pm

St. Bernard Parish Library: Aerial for Tweens & Teens!
Main Branch: 11:30 am & 1:45 pm

Avoyelles Parish Library:Tales With a Twist AND Aerial!
July 7: Bunkie, 10 am, Tales With a Twist
July 10: Marksville, 10 am, Aerial & 1pm Tale With a Twist

Come join the fun! Support your local libraries - they are the best places in the whole wide world! xoxo

It's on my list to update all of my locations for the summer this evening, lol… Library beat me to it. As they should because I am late getting the info out there. But this is my first one next week!

📚✨ STORYTIME WITH A TWIST! ✨🦖
Get ready to stretch, stomp, sway, and PLAY at this exciting Summer Reading Club special guest event!
🎭 Tales With a Twist: Stories That Move!
📅 Tuesday, June 9, 2026
🕥 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
📍 Abita Springs Town Hall
Kids will warm up by moving like dinosaurs before jumping into an interactive retelling of The Musicians of Bremen through yoga poses, creative movement, and imagination! 🐴🐶🐱🐓
This fun-filled program encourages:
📖 Storytelling
🧘 Movement & yoga
🎨 Creativity & imagination
😄 Active participation for kids of all ages
Come ready to move, laugh, and help bring the story to life together!
⚠️ Seating is LIMITED and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information, please contact the St. Tammany Parish Library – Abita Springs Branch.

“Arise, then… women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts,
whether our baptism be that of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies.
Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage,
for caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country
to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says: Disarm, Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.
Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
nor violence vindicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
at the summons of war,
let women now leave all that may be left of home
for a great and earnest day of council.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them then solemnly take council with each other as to the means
whereby the great human family can live in peace,
each bearing after his own kind the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
but of God.

In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask
that a general congress of women, without limit of nationality,
may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient,
and at the earliest period consistent with its objects,
to promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
the amicable settlement of international questions,
the great and general interests of peace.“

~ Julia Ward Howe

MOTHER’S DAY PROCLAMATION
Boston, 1870

Children’s Book Week is here! 📚

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Explore free resources and ways to celebrate: everychildareader.net


Every Child a Reader The Children's Book Council

“And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

—MATTHEW 25:40