Shelf Space: What’s New at the Harvard Public Library, 7/10/26
New for Children They Call Me No Sam! by Drew Daywalt Meet Sam, an insolent pug and incidental hero who will stop at nothing…
Shelf Space: What’s new at the Harvard Public Library, 10/11/13
New for Children World Rat Day: Poems About Real Holidays You’ve Never Heard Of by J. Patrick Lewis From the Children’s Poet Laureate comes…
It’s Only Natural: Dragonfly migration
Common Green Darner, Anax junius (Photo by Mary Holland) Bird migration is well documented and a familiar concept to most individuals, but birds are…
It’s Only Natural: Snapping turtle hatchlings emerge
A snapping turtle hatchling makes its way out of a nest. Tiny hatchlings the size of a quarter claw their way up through several…
Wingin’ It: Seen from my terrace
As I had hoped, the bluebirds fledged a second set of chicks. One pair fledged two and another fledged three. Each day the parents…
Shelf Space: What’s new at the Harvard Public Library, 8/30/13
New for Children Hero on a Bicycle Shirley Hughes In her first novel, author Shirley Hughes presents a World War II adventure proving that…
It’s Only Natural: Spectacular Stinkhorns
The delicacy and the design of Stinky Squid, as well as its strong odor, make it one of the more distinctive stinkhorns in New…
Shelf Space: What’s new at the Harvard Public Library, 8/16/13
New for Children The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann This international bestseller and debut novel by teenage author and classical musician Stefan Bachmann is part…
It’s Only Natural: Praying Mantis
European Mantis, also called a Praying Mantis (Photo by Mary Holland) Picture this: you take a cockroach and give it enlarged, muscular front legs…
Shelf Space: What’s new at the Harvard Public Library, 7/12/13
New for Children Return to the Willows by Jacqueline Kelly Mole, Ratty, Toad, and Badger are back for more adventures in this sequel to…
Wingin’ It: Bird-a-thon, birds of summer, etc.
A group of local birders participated in the Mass Audubon Bird-a-Thon this year, a 24-hour event held May 17 and 18. Over 800 birders…
