Community Corner
Kindness Matters: Children's Storytime at Barnes & Noble Milford
Kindness and compassion are the themes for this week's story time featuring children's book Llama Llama and the Bullygoat by Anna Dewdney. Peg Reekie, Juvenile Books' Lead at Barnes & Noble Milford, will also read Snowflakes Fall by Patricia MacLachlan and illustrated by Steven Kellogg. Depicting the changes that take place seasonally in nature, this book was inspired by the tragedy that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT last year. Ms. Reekie said she was so moved by the beautiful, sensitive writing and illustrations that she set a goal to sell 100 copies of Snowflakes Fall. "Just as we remember the snow even after it falls, we remember the children, although they are never spoken about explicitly in the book," Ms. Reekie said. To date, Barnes & Noble Milford has sold 186 copies of Snowflakes Fall.