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Do you want to improve your reading? Do you know someone who needs to learn to read? Reading is essential not only as a leisure activity but for success in all aspects of everyday life. Key areas where reading is very important include finding employment, finding housing, and using social services. Should you sign a cell phone agreement or apartment lease if you can’t read it? How do you fill out a job application without being able to fully understand the job description and employee responsibilities? In Humboldt County, an estimated 13,800 adults are functionally illiterate; they read below a fifth-grade level. Another 23,000 people in our county read below an eighth-grade level. Since 1985, Humboldt Literacy Project has been matching adult learners with trained tutors. Stop by and find out how you can be a part of it!

Bring your family to the library for a night out together! Decorate your own superhero mask while watching part or all of the 'The Incredibles' (the first movie). Families are invited to drop in any time during the showing for kids to choose a paper mask and design their own superhero character while watching the movie together. The lights will be on low so kids can see their masks and walk about safely. Here's the story: Bob and Helen Parr and their three children are living an ordinary life in the suburbs, when Bob (a.k.a. the superhero 'Mr. Incredible') gets a secret assignment to save the world. But he can't do it alone...turns out the whole family will need to get into the act, even baby Jack-Jack! What's daily life like for a superhero family? Hilarious, action packed, and dangerous, but here's one family that sticks together through thick and thin.

Babies and their families are invited to share songs, rhymes, bouncing games, finger plays, and short stories at this early literacy event. Following the program, there's time for play with developmentally appropriate toys and socializing for both parents and children. The program is designed for children aged 3-24 months, and occurs on the first and third Friday of each month.

Members of the Board of Supervisors:
REX BOHN
1st District / Vice Chair
ESTELLE FENNELL
2nd District
MIKE WILSON
3rd District
VIRGINIA BASS
4th District
RYAN SUNDBERG
5th District / Chair
Responsibilities:
The County of Humboldt is a general law county. The Board of Supervisors, which serves as the legislative and executive body of county government and many special districts, is comprised of 5 full-time members elected by their respective districts.

Sean's Shadow Puppets returns for an evening of charming folktales for the whole family, told using handmade puppets. This event is co-hosted with the Humboldt Literacy Project, -- they also make sure that all children who attend receive a free book!

Need some recommendations for new books to read? Want to share a great new read with someone? This casual community gathering discusses books, shares recent reads, and offers new suggestions of titles to read. No mandatory reading is required, just a love of reading.

The book to be discussed this month is 'Shift Happens: Breakdowns during Life's Long Hauls,' by local author Margot Genger. Have you read it? Drop in and join the discussion!

Would you like to learn one simple trick to enliven long car trips, help your kids succeed in school, and strengthen family relationships, all while having fun together? By playing with family storytelling you can do that and more! Join Youth Services Librarian Jeanine Lancaster for an evening of storytelling games and activities. Listen to stories, help tell a story, share your favorite stories. We might pull a story out of a bag, write an ad lib story, or create story characters to take home. Each child in attendance may choose a gently-used book from the Humboldt Literacy Project, free, as part of the fun. Family Literacy Night is a monthly series of programs that runs from September to May and features storytellers, musicians, and more. Each session offers fun for families and new tips for storytelling adventures at home.

Babies and their families are invited to share songs, rhymes, bouncing games, finger plays, and short stories at this early literacy event. Following the program, there's time for play with developmentally appropriate toys and socializing for both parents and children. The program is designed for children aged 3-24 months, and occurs on the first and third Friday of each month.

Kids have fun and build confidence as they read to an interested, uncritical four-footed friend.

Members of the Board of Supervisors:
REX BOHN
1st District / Vice Chair
ESTELLE FENNELL
2nd District
MIKE WILSON
3rd District
VIRGINIA BASS
4th District
RYAN SUNDBERG
5th District / Chair
Responsibilities:
The County of Humboldt is a general law county. The Board of Supervisors, which serves as the legislative and executive body of county government and many special districts, is comprised of 5 full-time members elected by their respective districts.

Drop by to use our button-maker to make pins and magnets with your own special designs on them! Draw, collage, or print your own artwork and use a template to make it the right size for a button or magnet.

This modern masterpiece is the first in the series of Neapolitan Novels by Italy's famed author Elena Ferrante, and draws a stunning portrait of friendship that interfaces with the story of a nation full of joys and trials.

Hold on to your seats with this 2018, action-packed, joke-filled retelling of the classic Peter Rabbit story in which naughty little rabbits get into Mr. MacGregor's garden. In this version, they get into the house too - all kinds of animals, and young Peter is just the instigator. Old MacGregor has died and grand-nephew MacGregor plans to sell the house and garden, but he hasn't reckoned with the animals, who fight back in a struggle that includes lots of slapstick humor to make kids giggle. This isn't your grandmother's Peter Rabbit, so it's rated PG. Careful parents will want to read the Common Sense Media reviews, and perhaps balance them with the Wikipedia or imdb description of the film.