Magazine Jan-Feb 2019

KIDS’ ACTIVITIES January – “I Have a Dream” Contest

Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream for freedom, justice and friendship. What’s your dream today? Pick up a handout from the Library and submit your entry to Thinkspace by January 25 for a chance to win a $30 CapitaLand Voucher! Entries will be displayed at the Children’s Library. February – CNY Paper Lantern Making Contest This Chinese New Year, create your very own paper lanterns with red packets and stand to win a $30 CapitaLand Voucher! Submit your lanterns to Thinkspace by February 25; entries will be displayed at the Children’s Library. Age categories: 4 to 5 years | 6 to 8 years | 9 to 11 years 1 winner per category STORYTELLING

BOOK CLUB Join our monthly Book Club sessions to meet fellow aficionados and partake in thoughtful discussions about award winning novels! Adults’ Library, Thinkspace 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Complimentary; light refreshments will be provided

Thursday, January 31 Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

Kid’s Library, Thinkspace 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve upon in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. Winter, life-force matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her seasonal cycle and follow-up to her sensational Autumn , Smith's shape- shifting novel casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory. In Ali Smith's Thursday, February 28 Winter by Ali Smith

In partnership with Stamford American International School

Saturday, January 26 The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

When Mouse takes a stroll through the woods, he meets a fox, an owl, and a snake who all want to eat him! So Mouse invents a gruffalo, a monster with "terrible tusks and terrible claws, terrible teeth, and terrible jaws." But will Mouse's frightful description be enough to scare off his foes? After all, there's no such thing as a gruffalo… is there?

Saturday, February 23 The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr

The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don't expect to see at the door is a big furry, stripy tiger! What does he want, surely not to join them for tea?

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