Classic Books to Share with Your Children for Valentine's Day

From Charlotte's Web to Where the Wild Things Are, share these classic books with your children and encourage their love for reading.

“Where’s Pa Going with that Axe?” The Enduring Quality of Children’s Classics By Anita Silvey    Courtesy of James Patterson's Read Kiddo Read Foundation The opening line of E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web— “Where’s Pa going with that axe?”—has now been read by adults to eager young listeners for more than 60 years. Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time and Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day have been picked up with enthusiasm for more than 50 years. For 75 years, parents have shared The Hobbit, and this year Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are turns 50. These books and others like them (Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Virginia Lee Burton’s Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, and L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables) bring …

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Election 2011

Library Supporters Say Issue 16 Needed for Core Services

Current tax levy expires at the end of the year.

Among the decisions facing voters on the May 3 ballot, is whether to pass a 1.9-mill, replacement tax levy for the Cuyahoga Falls Library. The 1.3-mill levy, currently in place, expires in December.  “We need to replace that levy, or we will lose half our income,” said Library Director Kevin Rosswurm.  Currently operating on a $2.43-million annual budget, the library uses taxes from the levy for resources that include the purchase of materials, such as books and movies, as well as staffing for the library. Recent renovations to the library are separately funded.  Rosswurm said, while he understands that some voters feel they cannot afford or are resistant to the tax levy, others realize that reductions in state funding require that a local…

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