Seneca Rocks Audubon member Janice Horn (on left) with De Clover, Assistant Librarian at the Foxburg Free Library. They’re holding two of the books donated by Seneca Rocks Audubon and the Clarion County Garden Club.
By Paulette Colantonio
The Clarion County Garden Club and Seneca Rocks Audubon recently purchased books for elementary school and public libraries in Clarion County. These two organizations have supported “The Book Project” since 2009.
Librarians chose 5 titles from a list of 10 books including fiction and nonfiction offerings, generated by Paulette Colantonio and other Seneca Rocks members. Librarians selected books to enhance student learning and collection development issues. Four elementary schools responded including Allegheny-Clarion Valley, Clarion Area, Clarion-Limestone, and Keystone. Clarion Free Library, Foxburg Library, Knox Public Library, Eccles-Lesher, and Redbank Valley completed the list of respondents in Clarion County. In addition, Seneca Rocks Audubon donated books to Forest Elementary School, Oil City, Marienville, and Brookville public libraries. In all, 65 new titles were delivered to these institutions.
The five fiction titles included this year were The Christmas Owl: Based on the True Story of a Little Owl Named Rockefeller by Ellen Kalish and Sterer Gideon; Digger and the Flower by Joseph Kuefler; Grandma Lisa’s Humming, Buzzing, and Chirping Garden by Lisa Doseff; The Garden Next Door by Collin Pine; and The Winter Bird by Kate Banks. Nonfiction titles included Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert; A Nest is Noisy by Dianna Aston; Hummingbird by Nicola Davies; Owling: Entering the World of the Mysterious Birds of the Night by Mark Wilson; and Plant a Pocket of Prairie by Phyllis Root.
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