Calling All Readers and Read-to-Me'ers to Celebrate Noyes Library’s 120th Birthday

Join in honoring the 120th birthday of the Washington area’s oldest public library, the Noyes Children’s Library in Kensington, MD, by signing up for the library’s 120th Birthday Reading Club.

·         Pick up your reading booklet at the Noyes Library for Young Children (10237 Carroll Place, Kensington, MD); a Noyes Children's Library Foundation event; or at Kensington businesses, including Catch Can, The Growing Years, Hardware City, JennyCakes Bakery, Johnson's Florist and Garden Center, Old Town Market, sub*urban trading co, and Two Coconuts.

·         Record the names of 120 books read during 2013, the 120th birthday year of Noyes Library.

·         Present your completed reading log to a librarian at Noyes Library.

·         Attend the awards ceremony and festivities at Noyes and Kensington Town Hall on Saturday, October 12, 2013.

Children of all ages are invited to participate. Children are welcome to include any books read in 2013 in the reading log and, yes, it is fine to count those books read multiple times as many times as they are read! Siblings may participate as a group.

If your child reads more than 120 books, you are welcome to pick up an extra reading booklet or add extra sheets. The Noyes Children’s Library Foundation, sponsor of this program, would love to hear about children who read more than 120 books (let a librarian know or send the Foundation an email).

Children are encouraged to participate in the Noyes Library 120th Birthday Reading Club as well as the Montgomery County summer reading program.

The Noyes Children’s Library Foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, was founded in 1991 to support the historic Noyes Children’s Library in Kensington, MD, one of only a handful of public libraries just for children in the U.S. In addition to providing literacy outreach throughout the Washington area, the Foundation is funding a renovation for Noyes that will provide universal accessibility, essential structural updates, and additional space within the historic footprint of the building.

For more information, or to download a 120th Birthday Club reading log, please visit www.noyeslibraryfoundation.org.