Thank you to the following businesses for their support of the El Paso Public Library summer reading program:      

 The first activity of “Reading Is So Delicious” will be Bingo in the Park Wednesday, June 6th, from 6:00-8:00.  The entire family is encouraged to join us for Bingo and prizes!  You won’t want to miss a minute of this fun time for any age!

June 4th is just around the corner, and that  means Summer Reading is too! The library will host a Kickoff Karnival Monday, June 4th from 6:00 – 8:00 in the library park.   There will be a Sign-In Station where you will pick up your summer reading book logs and a brochure and pencil for the night’s activities.  There will be 6 stations using your delicious senses about the park.  Families [...]

We added some steps to our activity room recently.  The library would like to acknowledge and thank Faulk’s Floor Covering for donating the carpet.

This week’s bibliophile is Brenda!  Brenda and her family of bookworms have been coming to the library for 14 years.   They are weekly regulars at the library and always go home with an armful of books and the next week they bring all those back and get some more.   Brenda utilizes the library for home-schooling and also for pure reading pleasure. 1.  Do you remember when you developed [...]

The preschoolers gathered for the last time this season for fun stories to give us a ‘taste’ of what summer reading will be like this year!  We read the book “If You Give a Dog a Dougnut” and then ate doughnuts while we listened to “The Popcorn Shop”.  We had a great time singing about foods we like to eat and pretending we were eating them.  We finished our stories [...]

The library was very pleased to have Martha Lyons visit April 14th, during National Library Week.  She visited about her book, “Finding Her Roots”, and showed us other books she has created on her own on her journey to being published for the 1st time.  Martha also had copies of her book for purchase, which she then signed for the recipent.  It was a very pleasant afternoon!

Our bibliophile-of-the-week is Margaret!  Margaret is a very cheerful lady who regularly visits the library.   She says that her favorite section is the Large Print Christian Fiction section and the Large Print mysteries.   1.  Do you remember when you developed an interest in reading? My mom read to me when I was little.  She would read to me while I ironed – I had poor eyesight and could [...]

Congratulations to the winners in our annual Edible Book Contest.  Each year, during National Library Week, the library sponsors this fun contest.  Entries are always different, and it is so fun to guess what food participants used to create their book-themed entry. And the winners are: Most Creative- Lady Bug’s Lesson by Bobbie Talbert      Most Appetizing- Lovable Lyle by Courtney [...]

Please join us May 7-14 in celebration of Children’s Book Week.  We will have a Scholastic Book Fair going on through-out the week, a reception with punch and cookies Wednesday, May 9, from 3:00-5:30, and children will be able to register for “Reading Is So Delicious”, this year’s summer reading program. Book Fair Hours: Monday – 3:00-6:00 Tuesday- 9:00-6:00 Wednesday- [...]