Montgomery Area Public Library

08/31/2026

08/31/2026

08/27/2026

🎉📚 SEPTEMBER IS BRINGING SOMETHING NEW TO MAPL! 📚🎉

New school year. New season. NEW PROGRAMS! And we are SO excited about what’s coming to MAPL! 🍂✨

📖🍿 Pages & Plates — An afterschool reading & snack café for kids in grades K–3!

💡💵 Adulting Adventures — Real-life skills, useful stuff, and all those things nobody ever taught you (or you may have forgotten along the way!).

✍️ Cursive Class — Learn cursive or brush up on those handwriting skills!

🎒🔎 Library Scouts — Explore. Create. Discover. Together!

🎲👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Game Night — Bring the whole family for games, laughter, and a little friendly competition!

🎨📚 Teen & Adult Craft Night — Our first project? Bookish Tote Bags! 😍

🏆📖 And beginning September 1st…

SCOOP & SCORE!

Read books. Fill up your bookmark. Turn it in. Earn scoops of prizes! The more you read, the more chances you have to scoop up something fun! 🎁✨

Whether you're 5, 15, 45, or 95, we want MAPL to be a place where you can learn something, make something, meet someone, try something new or just have FUN. ❤️

Take a look at everything coming in September, find something that sounds like YOU, and come join us!

📚 MAPL — Explore. Discover. Connect.

👇 Which new program are YOU most excited about?

08/27/2026

📚🐄 Book Buddies Had a Quacking Good Time! 🦆🍎

Yesterday at Book Buddies, we headed back to school with the barnyard crew from Click, Clack, Quack to School! 🏫📖

After enjoying our story together, our little Book Buddies made a yummy snack to go along with all the reading, giggles, and fun! ❤️

We love seeing our youngest readers get excited about books—and we especially love making storytime a little extra special with hands-on activities (and tasty treats!). 🥰

Thank you to everyone who joined us! We can't wait to see what story our Book Buddies discover next! 📚✨

08/25/2026

💗📚 **Remembering Dolly Parton: A Champion of Children & Books** 📚💗

Today, we join people around the world in mourning the loss of Dolly Parton.

Dolly will forever be remembered for her extraordinary music, unmistakable personality, generosity, and enormous heart. But here at Montgomery Area Public Library, we especially remember and honor her for something very close to our hearts: **her belief that every child deserves books.**

In 1995, Dolly created the Imagination Library to give young children free books and inspire a lifelong love of reading. What began in her home county in Tennessee grew into an extraordinary literacy program that has placed books into the hands and homes of millions of children around the world.

For librarians, parents, grandparents, teachers, and anyone who has ever watched a child's face light up when they receive a book of their very own, that is an incredible legacy.

Dolly understood that a book is so much more than paper and ink. A book can be a child's first adventure, a source of comfort, the beginning of a dream, or the moment they discover that an entire world is waiting for them.

Thank you, Dolly, for the music.

Thank you for the laughter.

And from all of us who believe in the power of books and reading, **thank you for helping generations of children dream bigger.** 💗

Your songs will continue to be sung.

Your books will continue to be read.

And your legacy will live on in every little reader you helped create.

📚💗 **1946–2026** 💗📚

08/22/2026

🚨📚 **IT’S HAPPENING NOW!!!** 📚🚨

The **Open Air Book Fair is OPEN!** 🎉☀️

Come on out to **Montgomery Park in Montgomery, PA** and spend your Saturday morning celebrating BOOKS!

📍 **Montgomery Park — Montgomery, PA**
⏰ **NOW until 1:00 PM!**

📖 Meet **30 incredible authors**
📚 Discover your next favorite read
💝 Take a **Blind Date with a Book**
🎟️ Enter our **Basket Raffles**
🍭 Try your luck with **Pick-A-Pop**
🎨 Stop by our **FREE craft table**
📚 Browse our **Used Book Sale**
🛍️ And MORE!

Bring the kids. Bring your friends. Bring your fellow bookworms. Or just bring yourself and come see what you discover! ❤️

☀️📚 **We’re here until 1 PM — COME JOIN THE FUN!** 📚☀️

08/17/2026

🎉📚 **CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SUMMER LEARNING BASKET RAFFLE WINNERS!** 📚🎉

The reading logs have been counted, the names have been drawn, and we have our winners! 🥳

🌟 **Littles:** Noemi Navarro
🌟 **Tweens & Teens:** Ezra Jutsum
🌟 **Adults:** AmandaRoze Carr

Congratulations to all three of our winners! 🎁👏

But even more importantly, we want to say a HUGE **THANK YOU** to everyone who signed up and participated in Summer Learning at Montgomery Area Public Library this year! ❤️

You read books, attended programs, created, explored, learned, laughed, and helped make this an absolutely AMAZING summer at MAPL. We loved seeing so many members of our community participate—from our littlest readers all the way to our adults!

📖 **Still working on your reading log? Keep going!**

Even though our basket raffle has ended, you can continue turning in completed reading logs through **August 31** and receive a small prize. 🎉

Thank you to every reader, family, volunteer, and community member who helped make Summer Learning 2026 so much fun. We couldn't have done it without you!

We already can't wait to see what adventures await us next summer! 🔎📚✨

**Congratulations, readers—you made this summer one for the books!** ❤️

08/14/2026

📚🚨 LAST CALL FOR SUMMER READING RAFFLE ENTRIES! 🚨📚

Have a Summer Reading log sitting on the kitchen counter, tucked in a bag, or hanging out somewhere waiting to make its way back to the library? Now is the time to bring it in! 😄

🎟️ TOMORROW, Saturday, August 15, is the LAST DAY to turn in your reading logs for a chance to enter our Summer Reading Basket Raffle!

🏆 Raffle winners will be drawn on Monday, August 17!

But don't worry. Summer Reading isn't completely over yet! ☀️📖

Didn't finish your log in time for the raffle? You can still turn in completed reading logs through August 31 and receive a small Summer Reading prize! 🎁

So finish up those last few pages, find those reading logs, and bring them to MAPL! ❤️

And to everyone who participated in Summer Reading this year: THANK YOU! We have loved seeing you read, explore, create, and learn with us all summer long. 🦕📚☀️

Good luck in the raffle! 🤞🎉