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Using your Sprout pencil

By: GEPL Staff

Readers up to age 14 who register for 2022 Summer Reading may receive a Sprout pencil. Sprout pencils are just like regular pencils, except that when they get too short to write with, you can plant them! Watch this 45-second video to learn how to grow plants (seed variety is on the pencil label) from… Read More about Using your Sprout pencil

The Library in Our Community

The library wants to be an involved contributor in all things Glen Ellyn! At community events like STEMCON at College of DuPage and Three Fires Council Scouting Spectacular, library staff showcase technology like Ozobots and encourage physics and engineering projects by building catapults. Organizations like Cub/Boy Scouts and Brownies/Girl Scouts bring young members of the… Read More about The Library in Our Community

Youth Department staff announce their winners in their mock Caldecott Medal competition!

The Randolph Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. To choose the winner and honor books, GEPL Youth Department… Read More about Youth Department staff announce their winners in their mock Caldecott Medal competition!

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