2014 Corona Library Events w/ Abigail Shellberg

A few weeks ago my mom ran into Gretchen Doughty from the Friends of The Corona Public Library at a PTA luncheon and told her that I really wanted to interview someone about Corona Library's Book - a - Palooza. She was nice enough to pass on my information and I was contacted by Abigail Shellberg. She is the Library Services Director at Corona Public Library. She said she would love to talk to me.

The library in Corona has so many neat things going on this summer. Movies, live shows, crafts and other activities and a terrific reading program called Paws to Read.

 I really enjoyed talking with Miss Shellberg. It was a fun conversation and she really seemed to be looking forward the Pets on Parade part of Book -a- Palooza. 

http://coronapubliclibrary.org/summerfest.aspx

You can find the sign up to Paws to Read and calendar of events for the Library at Http://CoronaPublicLibrary.org

Don't forget to check out The Friends of The Corona Public Library book shop at the library or online at 

I know where I will be sending a lot of my summer. See you there. #Library #SummerFun

Corona Public Library : Glue and Go Workshop

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Tonight we went to the Corona Public Library. I love going to the library. There was a costume workshop. A nice lady name Holly Cleeland showed us how to make costumes with stuff around the house. It was really cool. At the end there was a raffle and I won a costume. I got to be a lobster. Thanks to both Miss Holly and the Corona Public Library

Power of the PAW: Mrs. Sherman

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I had a super week. I got to interview some people and finish up projects I have been working on. One of these is my interview with Mrs. Sherman, my school librarian.

First off it was really hard to schedule this interview. She is super busy with projects for school, helping out in the community and PTA. It is good she works in a library because she is always double booked.

I want to interview as many Jefferson Staff as I can and I think Mrs. Sherman is the best person to go first. She is the one person that every student sees during the week and she does so much for all of us. I really enjoyed interviewing her. She is energetic, inspiring, always in a project, and just plain awesome. I hope you enjoy it too.

Corona Grand Race

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On Saturday, September 14, Mom took me to see the Grand Race Victory Lap. It celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the Corona races. My dad showed me where the race track was on the map at the library. It was fun to see race cars on the road. I wanted to go to City Park for the rest, afterwards, but my mom was really sick. I saw pictures though and it looked like everyone had real fun. I love all the fun stuff we get to do in Corona. Because our cameras are still messed up our video wasn't the best, but we came up with a fun way to use it.

Take a Look Back Tuesday- Lian's First Interview

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Back in April, I was blogging about Pirate Night at the library and one of the things I did was make balloon swords with Annie Banannie, Balloon Story Teller. When I asked her if I could blog about her class she thought I meant interview her so I got my very first interview. My interviews are better now, but I really liked that first one. It has been so long but I am trying to catch up on all the raw video I have and I wanted to get this out there. Later I will add the full interview with the terrific volunteers who helped her class and gave me great answers in the interview.

National Night Out- Corona CA

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Tuesday was the last day of summer vacation so mom took me out to have some fun. Later we stopped at the Corona Library because Mrs. Sherman, my school librarian, said there was going to be a K-9 Unit there. It was National Night Out and we got there early enough to avoid the crowds and I was able to talk with very nice police officers. All four of them were super. They had stuff to give away and information on keeping safe. There was a motorcycle officer with his bike and it was very cool. Officer Glenn let me meet his K-9 partner and I got to pet him and Lieutenant Reynolds gave me a super interview about the Corona Police Force. I want to thank them and all of those brave men and women who keep us safe in our city everyday. It was terrific to talk with some of them. I am posting the short video here but I will have the full interview up on You Tube and in my interview book as soon as it is ready.


Wednesday, I am starting fifth grade. I can't wait! I wish summer was longer, but this was a terrific interview to end my summer project.

Eeday at the Library

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Wednesday we went to a concert at the Corona Public Library. Eeday was playing Reggae music. I don't know much about Reggae but I liked it, especially for the songs I knew. I really like how they played for a whole hour straight without stopping in between songs. The audience had a really good time.

http://www.coronapubliclibrary.org/SampleCalendarPage.aspx

All the guys in the band were really nice to me and I got to interview the singer, James Eeday. His favorite song to play is "The Bed's Too Big Without You" by The Police or anything by Bob Marley. When he was younger he wanted to do make up and latex masks for horror movies but his dad was a musician and got him into music. I really liked his answer to my question about what music means to him. He said that music means the world and that it helps people across different cultures communicate. He also gave me his autograph to add to my Hall of Autographs.

Our cameras were wonky again so I didn't get any pictures with him and only about one third of the show on video. I made a highlight video for the blog and I will post all of what we videoed later. It was really great music.

CAT Corona

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Tonight I got to go to Kid's Club at the Galleria at Tyler. There was a terrific bubble show. I got a new autograph for my book too. I will make a post about that later. First I wanted to talk about CATCorona.

I talked with them at the CPL Book A Pallooza yesterday and they have a big show opening this weekend. In April, during Night at the Library, a bunch of actors from CAT dressed up as pirates. I just loved them.  Lots of them agreed to be on my blog. I even posted about some of them (Pirate Photos: Corona Public Library, Pirate Paint: Connor Rudolph, Pirate Twins - Corona Public Library  ). This weekend they have their new show Disney's The Little Mermaid, opening up and it is playing next weekend too! They also have some fun programs this summer like a day camp and real summer camp. I would really really love to be a part of that!!!!

You can get information on their web site at
http://catcorona.com/http://catcorona.com/ or
on their Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/CATCorona

Corona Public Library- Book-a-Palooza

I had the best time tonight. It was another fundraiser for the Corona Public Library  Friends of the Library, Book-a-Palooza. There were so many fun things to do. There were games and telescopes and crafts and all kinds of free gifts, My favorite thing was the Corona Police Department. I got to try on police gear.

There were so many terrific people who were willing to talk with me for my blog. 

Inline Rinks

Riverside Astronomical Society

City of Corona Parks and Recreation

Corona Fire Department

CAT Corona

All Smiles Dental

Corona YMCA

Corona Police Department

Food Runners

I can't wait to do posts on them over the next week. One of my new friends, Ms. Lucy Silva, even introduced me to the Mayor of Corona, Jason Scott, and took my picture with him. He was very busy and didn't have time to answer questions, but I thought he was very nice.

Me with Corona Mayor, Jason Scott
The original of this photo can be found here

 She posted some really terrific pictures of the event on her organization's Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/FoodRunners1

Here is my whole night in 4 minutes! This was a great way to spend my second blogaversary!!!

Library Field Trip

Last week I got to go on a field trip with my classes to the library. I love the library I have been there at least 1000 times. Not really 1000, but it is one of my most favorite places to be. You can see my first post on the Corona Library here http://lianssummeroffun.blogspot.com/2011/06/library-fun.html.

I have seen music shows at the library and dressed up like a pirate and checked out thousands of books. Maybe not thousands, but lots. The librarians are so nice and they always help me find books and they always remember me. I love how they always know right where to go when I have a question. It has the best kids area of all the libraries even though the big one in Riverside has toys. It even has Finding Nemo fish.

This time we got to go before the library opened and took a tour and that was very fun. I really enjoyed learning about the heritage room.



Later my teacher read us some books and I got to check out some more books. We walked there and back and that was way better than being class.

Thank you to the librarians and my teachers. I had a great time.

Pirate Twins - Corona Public Library

The Pirates at Pirate night were so nice. Some of my favorites were Treasure Island and Black Pearl. I talked to them right at the beginning and they talked to me every time they saw me all night. They taught me how to pirate dance.

Check back. I still have highlights from the Pirate Adventure show,  and my very first ever interview, with Miss Annie Bannanie the Balloon Storyteller.

Pirate Paint: Connor Rudolph

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One of the most fun things I did was get my face painted. A nice boy named Connor did it. He was funny. He has a great Pirate accent too! He is part of a theater group called CAT Corona. He was helping out with Pirate Night and he didn't mind being a part of my blog.

There are some great pictures of the pirates from the library, and Connor too, at the CAT Corona facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/CATCorona I talked to all the pirates in those pictures, they were terrific and I have video with a lot of them for a post later this week.

Come back in the next few days. I still have highlights from the Pirate Adventure. Plus, I talk to pirate twins and I got to interview Miss Annie and the kids who helped her with the balloons classes, they were all really great.