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Congrats to Warner Priest, our February Book-Checkout Winner! 🎊 March’s prize is perfect for cookie lovers 🍪—check out books all month long for your chance to win!

Since we’re in the middle of a blizzard, what better way to “celebrate” than with a snow globe display? 🌨️✨ A huge thank you to Emily Martin for sharing her amazing collection with us!

A huge thank you to the amazing Preschool Teachers at Pleasantville Community School District for hosting another fantastic Book Bingo event this past weekend! 📚✨ No one left empty-handed, and everyone had a blast! 🎉 This is such a wonderful activity for helping our littles with letter and number recognition while having fun! 🧩👏 And [...]

We want to give a big shoutout to our new Vice President, Katy Galvin, for stepping up when JoEllen mentioned needing candy for Easter eggs and animal crackers for Storytime! Within minutes, Katy had people responding and ready to help! We are so grateful to: Knox and the Hound (in Knoxville) – This new doggy [...]

Had a great time with the ladies at their author event at the Webb Shadle Public Library. If you've read it, make sure to leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads for them. If you haven't picked it up yet, just search for 1,000 Balloons on Amazon or go to 1000balloons.com.

If you thought you heard a herd of elephants running through town last Monday, don’t worry—it was just JoEllen leading story time and teaching the kiddos how to drum!

We are so grateful for all the recent donations from our wish list! Thanks to your support, we’re excited to add new books to our shelves. A huge THANK YOU to Megan Krichau and Melanie Hurt for donating books! And to everyone who has contributed—whether anonymously or not—we appreciate you!

It's not too late to set a #BookGoal for 2025! If setting a number of books read is intimidating or not your style, try something different! Here are some examples of other Book Goals you can set this year: * Read an entire series – Get lost in a story world that will keep you [...]

Shoutout to some of Iowa's newest Dementia Friends who attended last week's session at the Webb Shadle Public Library in Pleasantville! Are you in Marion County and hoping to become a Dementia Friend? We have two more upcoming opportunities for you: 1) Bussey (Bussey Community Library) – February 22 (1pm) 2) Pella (Pella Public Library) [...]

Thanks to the generous donation in memory of Dolores Fortner, our beautiful new picnic tables have arrived and are ready for use! A huge thank you to the City of Pleasantville for putting them together and moving the old ones out of the way. We can’t wait to see all the fun and activity on [...]