Books make great holiday gifts! In our latest Parent Café video, you’ll find recommendations of picture books, early readers and early chapter books, fiction, and non-fiction titles that your children...or any special children in your life...will enjoy. All of these titles are available in the Youth Services Department if you’d like to try before you… Read More
Podcast: Dr. Paula Derdiger Illuminates Postwar British Fiction
On this month’s episode of the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Paula Derdiger to discuss her recent book Reconstruction Fiction: Housing and Realist Literature in Postwar Britain (Ohio State University Press, 2020). Dr. Paula Derdiger is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Her book Reconstruction Fiction… Read More
Teen Grab and Go: Winter Candle
Winter is fast approaching, cozy up with a good book and light up a candle you made yourself! Teens can pick up a winter candle-making kit from the teen space or from the green creation station outside the library. INGREDIENTS: 4 oz. tin w/wick placed 1 bag of of soy wax chips 1 vial peppermint… Read More
Youth Grab and Go: Yarn Art
Prepare to get cozy as our Youth Grab & Go Kit this November features yarn art! Be as creative as you’d like with this ball of yarn and piece of paper. Create any design that you want or, like me, make a dinosaur! First, trace the design you’d like on your piece of paper. Next,… Read More
Favorite Theater Resources – in celebration of Deerfield Family Theater
Curtains up! In celebration of the opening of Deerfield Family Theater’s newest production, Schoolhouse Rock Live! (which opens today!) we in the Adult Services Department put together a list of some favorite theater-related resources. Check out the list, with links to items in our catalog, below. You can also listen to me gush about this… Read More
Holiday Shopping Begins @ DPL! Used Book Sale, November 20
No worries about holiday supply chain shortages when you shop at the Deerfield Public Library! The stock is already in for the upcoming Friends of the Deerfield Public Library Used Book Sale. When: Saturday, November 20, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Where: Lower Level meeting rooms What: Cookbooks, Children’s books Art books, Coffee Table Books,… Read More
Sam’s Music Reviews: Music Exploration
Happy October everyone. Recently, I’ve been trying to expand my musical repertoire and explore new musicians/bands I’ve never listened to before. Spotify and Bandcamp have been two incredibly useful tools in my exploration. Every recommendation is a brand new album from the selected artist, and each artist represents a different style of music, so there… Read More
An Evening with Cathy Park Hong, author of “Minor Feelings” – November 4
Join us for An Evening with Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings, on Thursday, November 4 from 7-8 p.m. via Zoom. Deerfield Public Library has partnered with multiple Chicago-area libraries to bring you this special event. Be sure to register! Cathy Park Hong will discuss her New York Times best-selling book Minor Feelings: An… Read More
Podcast: Poet Lisa Hiton Discusses New Book “Afterfeast”
This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, I am thrilled to present a conversation with Lisa Hiton on the occasion of the publication of her debut full-length poetry collection, Afterfeast. Selected by the poet Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the Dorset Prize for Poetry, Afterfeast is published by Tupelo Press. Lisa Hiton… Read More
Teen & Youth Picks: Spooky Season
It's spooky season. Enjoy Halloween season with these great books, from the scariest to the not-so-scary. Find more teen horror reads on our Teen Horror booklist! Teen House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland Something happened to Iris Hollow and her two older sisters Grey and Vivi when they were children, something they can't quite remember but that left… Read More
