Budding young botanists learned the ancient art of flower pressing during the Learn to Grow program at Ravenswood. Flowers and herbs such as lavender, sage and marigolds were preserved in plant presses made from cardboard and newspaper. Whimsical artwork made from plants grown…
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The Queens Library teamed up with NYCLeaves through BIG! Compost & Smiling Hogshead Ranch to collect fallen leaves at all of our regular kitchen scrap/compost collection sites through the end of November. Leaves are carbon rich "browns" that are vital to the composting…
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Kids were invited to Queens Library's Steinway & Sunnyside locations to make adventure airplanes using craft sticks. Kids decorated their airplanes with small circle stickers. The materials used in this craft were left over from previous crafts.
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  Kids at Queens Library at Astoria made book wands  to use as bookmarks. Bookmarks were made by upcycling craft sticks. Preschoolers decorated their bookmarks using jewel stickers, wiggly eyes,and colorful string.
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Batman: Year One (1987)Written by Frank Miller, illustrated by David MazzucchelliThis wonderful exploration of one of the great origin myths of comics is Frank Miller at his best. Batman is shown to be fallible and fumbling. He needs to find his way and at first he stumbles.This…
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