Whitefish Community Library

**UPDATE: Our temps are too low for StoryCircle to be outside, but we’ll put our story panels up in the library so you can walk through the Food Bank story. And the first 3 families that visit can bring home their very own Snow Volcano! (Note: you will need to supply your own vinegar.) If you don’t make it in time to get a snow volcano, they are super simple to make – we have the instructions for you.

Our Thursday StoryCircle will be about Whitefish’s own North Valley Food Bank and the volunteers who make it go. We’ll be outside at 10:30 a.m. sheltered by the Depot Park Gazebo.

Our outdoor StoryCircle happens in most weather, unless the temps are below 10F. At 10F and above, Miss Mary will be outside in her snow pants, ready for stories. She promises to make sure we move around enough to keep warm!

And if you dress warm enough, you’ll be able to stay until we make snow volcanoes!

Are you ready to see some TRACKS today? We’ll have our StoryCircle about TRACKS in the Gazebo at Depot Park today, as there is too much ice on the sidewalk in the library’s Big Back Yard. For a taste of what’s in store, here is one of the tracks we’ll be looking at (Thanks for loaning us your tracks, Whitefish Legacy Partners!). Can you guess whose track it is?

Overdrive App is Sunsetting Soon: As a reminder Overdrive will stop supporting the Overdrive app in February and it will be removed from app stores. To continue accessing eBooks and Audiobooks your digital readers will need to download the Libby app on their digital device

Thanks to ARPA funding the Montana State Library is excited to offer Great Courses, Test Prep services and Universal Class. They can be found by scrolling down toward the bottom of the screen. These extras are all available for the next 12 months with the Libby app.

Perhaps you’ve heard of The Library Lion? Well, Whitefish Library had Panthers on Tuesday! The Fortine Panthers Pre-K and Kindergarten class visited and they all read enough books to take home Whitefish Library Snowfolk. What a great class! Thanks for bringing them, Miss Michelle!

The Story Panels are proud to show off their new vinyl jackets today when we read a penguin story “Grumpy Pants” by Claire Messer. Come and learn how penguin shakes off his grumpy mood at preschool StoryCircle today, 10:30 a.m. in the library’s Big Back Yard.

Thanks to the fine weather for making snow blocks and industrious StoryCircle attendees, our StoryCircle Fort has a new layer, and some tunnels and even a back door! It’s a sweet place to sit on mats and listen to a story or two. Today we had stories about BOXES and all the fun things that can be imagined with them. Boxes even make fine snow block molds!