HAPPY HAPPY! SEEYA NEXT YEAR!

DON'T FORGET WRITING ON THE

7TH OF JANUARY (6:00 - 7:30 pm)!!

It is a truth universally acknowledged that. . . *

anyone reading a Jane Austen novel is changed for ever!

Today is Jane's birthday. If you have not yet graced your life with her fiction, maybe today is the day to promise yourself that kind of joy, for reading her novels is a joy for sure.

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*if you do not recognize this seven word string, you have not yet read the first line of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE!

Hey, it's Tamora Pierce's birthday. Read all about her on her website, and then go to the Wyckoff Library and check out one of her great books! Talk about 'girl power'! She's got it all in her fantasy novels.

www.tamorapierce.com

It's Emily's birthday!

Celebrate!

Write a poem!

Read a poem!

Read one of her poems!

Or you may just read about her: http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/

On this day in 1972, the above picture was taken by Apollo 17 astronauts, and for the first time the earth, the Big Blue Marble, as the astronauts called her, was photographed in space in all its magnificence.

Enjoy her, respect her, protect her, and love her!