01 Sep, 2024

Bring Birds to Your Yard

Are you interested in making your yard more bird-friendly? First: Join us with Sustainability and Environmental Education Division (SEED) online on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 11am for “Don’t Wing It, Plan It! Make Your Yard Bird-Friendly.” This virtual workshop will help you learn how to create a bird-friendly landscape at home with City of […]

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Summer Scares for Young Adults

Do you love Halloween? Are you tired of waiting all year for the spooky season? Have no fear, for the Horror Writers Association has you covered! HWA (in partnership with United for Libraries, Book Riot, and Booklist) offers Summer Scares, a booklist of horror recommendations for all ages. Plano Public Library gives you access to […]

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Plano Reads: Join Second Tuesday Book Club June 14 for “Have You Seen Luis Velez?”

Second Tuesday Book Club will meet in-person from 7 to 8:15 p.m. on Tuesday, June 14, in the program room at Schimelpfenig Library, for our discussion of Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde . We will observe social distancing, with face coverings recommended. Please email Cathe Spencer at cathes@plano.gov if you have […]

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Plano Reads: National Book Award Winners for 2021 Have Been Announced

The National Book Awards have honored the best writing in America for more than seventy years. Since 1989, the National Book Award Foundation has worked “to celebrate the best literature in America, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in American culture.” The Awards currently honors the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, […]

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Audiobooks for Kids: VOX Books

Have you heard of VOX Books? According to their website, “VOX™ Books are the world’s first audiobooks that live in print books. The permanently attached VOX Reader transforms an ordinary print book into an all-in-one read-along.” Plano Public Library has 150 VOX Books available at the time of this blog post. A quick intro to VOX […]

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Plano Reads

With a printed book collection of over half a million books, as well as 70,000+ eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines, there is plenty to borrow from the library! On the Plano Library Learns blog you can read about what our staff are reading, what their puppets are reading, book reviews for upcoming book club sessions, and […]

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