Manfish: a Story of Jacques Cousteau

Manfish

In the 1970s “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau” was a regular television show watched by a lot of people. Jacques Cousteau was the host of the show - an adventurer, explorer and teacher who took his boat called the Calypso all over the world filming amazing underwater creatures to show the rest of us. Jacques was like Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, but without all the “Crikey!” and alligator wrestling.

This book is the story of Jacques life as an adventurer and inventor. He helped develop the aqua lung - the tank that allows people to breath underwater. Jacques’s message about keeping the ocean clean and protecting ocean creatures was way ahead of everyone else. Jacques was green before being green was cool!

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Meet Your Colts - Glendale Library

Meet Your Indianapolis Colts!

Monday, December 1 from 6 - 8 p.m.
Glendale Branch, 6101 N. Keystone Avenue

“The Mane Event” will feature such activities as read-aloud storytimes by Colts players, raffles for Colts items, autographing of team posters, and appearances by Blue, the Colts mascot, and Colts cheerleaders.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

And once you’re stuffed and need something to do - come out to The Learning Curve @ Central Library the day after Thanksgiving - Friday, November 29 at 2pm. Meet local artist Terry Border who creates wire sculptures with common items. He makes snacks into art! Terry uses these sculptures and creates photographs in witty and hilarious scenes. Register by calling 275-4222

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You Can Help Feed Hungry Kids

Play FreeRice and you can help feed hungry kids. On this website you answer questions to earn rice that will be sent to hungry people all over the world. For each answer you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program. 20 grains of rice might not seem like a lot, but if lot of kids play the game, the rice adds up! FreeRice has fed more than two million people since it started in October 2007. Really - they really do send the rice. Watch a Video of the Rice being destributed in Bangladesh

One Grain of Rice

Here is a story that illustrates how easy it is for multiplying rice to add up! A reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains of rice in One Grain of Rice when a selfish raja is outwitted by a clever village girl.

  • You can help at home too! You can take food donations to any IMCPL location from November 24 - December 20. When you return your library books - take a can of food too! The collected food will be sent to Gleaners Food Bank.
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A Boy Named Beckoning

A Boy Named Beckoning

A couple days I go I told you about Bass Reeves - the first African-American U.S. Marshal. Today’s book is about another first, this time a Native American. His story begins like this: “I scrambled under a clump of bushes and waited for the terror to end. But the full moon rose over the peaks, and its bright light revealed my hiding place. A strange man spotted me. He snatched me up by the arm and bound me with a rope. I stood terrified and watched my village burn. Before that horrible night, I had never seen a horse. Nor had I ever seen a dead person. From the National Archives and Records AdministrationThat night I saw both. That night I cried.” In 1871, five year old Native American boy Wassaja was snatched from his home in the dead of night and later sold to a white man. Jump ahead 20 years…Wassaja is now Dr. Carlos Montezuma. That’s right, Doctor - the first Native American to hold a medical degree. A true story and a real man. This book tells about Wassaja’s incredible odyssey from being owned by another person to earning a medical degree and leading the fight for Native American rights.

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