Come to the Library
Weekly Programs:
Mondays- Van Buren Public Library Littles Socials Hour 10:30 A.M.
Monday- Mountainburg Public Library Afterschool Art Classes 3:30 P.M.
Tuesday- Van Buren Public Library Baby and me 10:30 A.M.
Tuesday- Van Buren Public TnT 4:00 P.M.
Tuesday- Alma Public Library Teen Time 3:30 P.M.
Wednesday- Van Buren Public Library Story time 10:30 A.M.
Wednesday- Mountainburg Public Library Free Board Games 3:30 P.M.
Wednesday- Cedarville Public Library Story time 10:30 A.M.
Thursday- Mountainburg Public Library Storytime 10:00 A.M.
Thursday- Mountainburg Public Library Stringed Instrument Lessons 3:00 P.M.
Thursday- Alma Public Library Storytime 10:30 A.M.
Thursday- Mulberry Public Library Storytime 10:00 A.M.
Thursday- Van Buren Public Library Teen Time 1:30 P.M.
Thursday- Alma Public Library Kid’s Craft 4:00 P.M.
Friday- Van Buren Public Library Kids Crafternoon 3:30 P.M.
Friday- Alma Public Library Baby & me 10:30 A.M.
Friday- Mountainburg Public Knitting Circle 1:00 P.M.
Saturday- Alma Public Library Storytime and Kraftivity 10:30 A.M.
Saturday- Mountainburg Public Library Teen Game Day 10:00 A.M.
Saturday- Mountainburg Public Library Story time & Kraftivity 11 A.M.
Saturday- Mountainburg Public Library Builder's Club 12:30 P.M.
Alma Public Library Special Events:
April
Cedarville Public Library Special Events:
April
Mountainburg Public Library Special Events:
April 12th-National Patron Appreciation Day
April 19th-Strawberry Day at the Library
April 22nd-Earth Day
April 23rd-World Book Day
April 24th-Teen Time 3:30 P.M.
April 26th-Arbor Day
Van Buren Public Library Special Events:
April
If All Arkansas Read the Same Book
If All Arkansas Read the Same Book
Since 2001, If All Arkansas Read the Same Book is an annual, statewide reading program designed to encourage the enjoyment of reading and promote book discussion in libraries of all types across Arkansas.
The selection for 2024’s If All Arkansas Read the Same Book is “The Secret Book of Flora Lea” by Patti Callahan Henry.
A novel inspired by the true story of child evacuees from London during WWII, this novel explores what happens when a woman stumbles across a mysterious children’s book and long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood seen in the English countryside come to the surface.
About the Author
Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of sixteen novels including Surviving Savannah and Becoming Mrs. Lewis. She is the recipient of the Christy Award, the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year Award, and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year. She is the cohost and cocreator of the popular weekly online live web show and podcast Friends and Fiction. A full-time author and mother of three, she lives in Alabama and South Carolina with her family.
For more information, contact:
- Karen O’Connell
- Coordinator, Arkansas Center for the Book
- karen.oconnell@ade.arkansas.gov or 501-682-2874