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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We had a lot of string left over from previous programs. We also had rolls of yarn, ribbons, scraps of fabric and even lanyards. Children at Queens Library at Broadway used thin cardboard saved from boxes to create a canvas. Then, using glue the children drew pictures. Then the…
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2003)By Marjane Satrapi –Far superior to the movie and second volume which followed it, this beautiful graphic memoir is a spare, sometimes stark remembrance of a girlhood in Iran under the Islamic Revolution. Satrapi’s monochrome, heavy…
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