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Welcome to The Great DPPL Bake-Along!

Join us as we explore our favorite baked goods in fiction.

Every other Tuesday we’ll bake something from one of our favorite books.

We’ll share our results, our recipes, and a little bit about our chosen stories on this blog, and invite you to bake along with us.

Continue Reading "Matilda’s Chocolate Cake" →

 

You can learn to speak to others in another language while practicing social distancing.

Sounds weird but it's true.

Ideally you'd be flying to France to learn French or Rome to learn Italian, but that's hard for most of us to do in normal times, and impossible right now.

You can learn a lot through the library's website, however, without even leaving your couch. Or spending any money.

Continue Reading "You Don’t Have to Leave the House to Learn a Foreign Language" →

i must be honest here:

even in the best of times

i don’t really

Understand Poetry

much less Write it

Continue Reading "It’s National Poetry Month, and You’re All Invited" →

We know that we have a bunch of super readers in Des Plaines! 

Rocky Raccoon is all about reading. After all he IS  the mascot of the Des Plaines Public Library's school-year reading programs (Patch Club and 1KB4K). 

And he wants you to keep up the good work you are doing during the stay-at-home order. 

Continue Reading "Rocky Raccoon to the Rescue!" →

 

Missing one-on one book recommendations from your favorite 3rd floor staffers? DPPL's new Miner Recs Book Talks are the next best thing! 

Each week DPPL's readers advisory staff will "talk" their best book "recs".

And while we're all sheltering in place, we're calling the first entries in this series Grounded Recs. 

In Episode 1, David discusses The Innocents by Michael Crummey. 

If it sounds like something you'd enjoy reading, DPPL cardholders can check out The Innocents today as an eBook through the Digital Library of Ilinois. Enjoy!