This month our library is wrapping up its year-long time as a partner in the Children Literacy Foundation (CLiF) 2025-2026 Rural Library grant program. To wrap up our year, we will welcome author Amy Makechnie, author of The McNifficents, to the K.A. Brett School on May 27, 2026. Each child in the school will get to choose a new book to keep provided by the CLiF grant. Then, later this month, our library will receive over 80 new children’s books for our collection thanks to CLiF!
As part of this grant from CLiF, we recently received three new take-home literacy kits. These are clear backpacks stuffed with books and activities geared to young children on a particular theme. Our kits’ themes are Emotions, Under Construction, and Pets. These will be kept at the desk. Please ask if you’d like to borrow one!
The CLiF Rural Library grant also provided these wonderful benefits over the past year:
- A visit with author Matt Esenwine last June, with a book giveaway for the children in Tamworth Rec’s Summer Enrichment Program
- A visit with author Kari Allen last November at the K.A. Brett School, with a display of 90 new books for the Cook Library, plus more for the school library
- A program for kids “I Survived: Winter Edition” in December with activities about how humans and animals can survive in very cold places.
We are so grateful for our Rural Library grant. We have a greater appreciation than ever of the impact of CLiF’s mission “to nurture a love of reading and writing among under-resourced children up to age 12 in Vermont and New Hampshire.”