On exhibition at the famous Bon Marché in Paris, Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei displays his glorious bamboo and silk kites inspired by Chinese mythology. Here are some of the installtions below but check out this New York Times article for more information!
William Kamkwamba, author of The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, is coming to the Headquarters Library in downtown Gainesville! Learn more about how this author, engineer, and philanthropist brought electricty to his village through the power of windmills. It’s an event not to miss!
Please join us for a special screening from the acclaimed Global Girls Film Festival “Wind of Change” Wednesday, February 17th @ 4:00 p.m. Room 100 Smathers East This screening will be followed by a Q+A with the festival’s curator, Nicole Dreiske, Director of the International Children’s Media Center On Wednesday, February 17th the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature […]
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In honor of the 70th anniversary of the publication of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, see an excerpt from award-winning author and friend of the CCLC Peter Sís’s forthcoming book, The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In addition to writing poems and stories, Saint-Exupéry also flew (and sometimes […]
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