Did you know you can order in that next book you want to read? Southeast Regional Library has 500,000 books housed at head quarters and its 48 library branches. Six days a week the SRL van travels its routes exchanging blocks of books amongst the branches and bringing requested items to its patrons.

Currently shelved at Kipling is a beautifully illustrated and comprehensive natural history book, the newly published, award winning, “Prairie” by Candace Savage.

We regularly buy easy readers, beginner, junior, young adult, and adult books to appeal to the reading pleasure of the local community, targeting your genre and author preference.

Among recently purchased books is “Refugee Child: My Memories Of The 1956 Hungarian Revolution”. This personal narrative of her childhood in Hungary and emigration to Canada is written by Bobbie Kalman, successful author of 400 books in our library system.

Another book with local interest is “Qu’Appelle”, the poem retelling the aboriginal legend of the naming of the Qu’Appelle Valley. Paintings illustrating the book are by Saskatchewan artist, Michael Lonechild.

Kipling’s copy of “The Da Vinci Code” is the special illustrated version providing visual clues to the plot.

Kipling Branch is running a book sale for the next month. Browse the book sale in the Activity Room beside the Library. There is a large box of popular junior paperbacks, lots of magazines, and paperback and hard cover books for adults and children from various genres. Please drop your donation of books off with the librarian. Books published within the last five years are particularly valuable because we can barcode them and add them to our collection. Popular books, like easy reader series, Franklin, and by authors such as Nora Roberts, Mary Balogh, and Danielle Steel, can be used to replace tattered paperbacks.

Kipling Branch Library is hosting Aboriginal Storytelling in cooperation with the Kipling School on Saturday, March 10th from 1:30 – 4:00 p.m. in the Kipling High School Library. Aboriginal Storytelling Week celebrates the oral tradition of First Nations and Métis people, revealing the culture story by story. Our guest storyteller is Norma Jean Byrd, employed by the University of Regina, SIAST, and the Regina Public School. She will tell traditional legends and stories relating the cultural ways of life. School children and adults are invited. Please pre-register with the school (736-2464) or the library (736-2911).

Join us at Preschool Story Time on Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. in the library. We are currently learning literacy skills (reading books with great rhyming cadence) and developing fine motor skills through art lessons (making fridge hangings).