In 2007, the United Nations General Assembly designated April 2 as World Autism Awareness Day as a means to affirm and promote the realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for autistic people.

My name is Anaya Brainch and I am a rising junior at New Trier.

Join our Library Crawl this April in celebration of National Library Week. Starting April 1, pick up a Library Crawl bookmark at either Glencoe Public Library, Wilmette Public Library, or Winnetka-Northfield Public Library District.

Youth Services librarian Eti is hosting our Caldecott Club, a program where we explore amazing picture books and choose our favorite from the entire year. This program takes the place of Illustrator’s Club this fall and offers many of the things we love about that program.  

There was a young belle of old Natchez
Whose garments were always in patchez.
When comments arose
On the state of her clothes,
She replied, ‘When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez.”

--Ogden Nash

Do you like to draw and write your own stories? Do you love comics and graphic novels? Do you read webcomics as well as print?

April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the important role poetry plays in our culture, not only as a beautiful literary art, but as tools for self-expression, activism, and social commentary.