The winter reading program continues all month and though the first half of March at the Cosmos Library. Stop in to sign up and you’ll get a book bag, while supplies last. You’ll also get a reading log to track and rate the books you read beginning the day you sign up. If you read 3 books by the time the program is done on March 14, you can choose a small prize. If you read 3 more, you can pick an additional prize. The program can be completed only once per year.

In the past we’ve limited participation to adults, but this year teens age thirteen and up are welcome to participate if they wish.

The prize choices include mugs, candy bars, book lights, notebooks, and can coolers, while supplies last.

You can read any books you choose: library books or your own, fiction or nonfiction, print or audiobook or ebook.

Craft Circle will be held on February 28^th, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Drop in with your craft project to have some social time while you work. No messy crafts such as paint and dye, please, in order to protect the library’s carpet. No craft of your own? The library will provide adult coloring sheets. Open to adults and teens age 16 and up. No need to sign up.

The library will have Valentine’s Day take-home craft kits for kids available beginning February 3. The craft is a foam yeti with hearts.

Looking for some new books to keep the kids busy? These nonfiction books are available at the Cosmos Library for children to learn about real things:

Nonfiction books for younger children:
“Flurry, Float, & Fly!: The Story of a Snowstorm” by Laura Purdie Salas
“Liftoff!: How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas’s Art Soar” by Nina Crews
“Science Takes a Trip” by Maria Rentetzi

Nonfiction books for older children:
“Dead Ends!: Flukes, Flops & Failures That Sparked Medical Marvels” by Lindsey Fitzharris
“Drone Racing” by Tom Jackson
“Octopus Ocean: Geniuses of the Deep” by Mark Leiren-Young
“The Pokémon Encyclopedia” by Arnold Ringstad

Pioneerland libraries will be closed on Monday, February 16, for Presidents Day.

The library’s hours are Mondays 10-5, Tuesdays 2-5, Thursdays 2-6, Fridays 2-5, and Saturdays 10-1. Find us in city hall, at www.cosmos.lib.mn.us, or at 320-440-1012.