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Reading Rover
33 Fryemont Street
Bryson City, NC 28713

828-488-2382
Fax: 828-488-2638

Technical & Outreach Services: Joan Lackey

Smoky Mountains Friends of Bryson City NC Library

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The Reading Rover Bookmobile
Bringing the library to area child care centers since 1999


The Reading Rover, a cooperative project with Smart Start / Region A
Partnership for Children
, is a mobile unit serving preschoolers and child care providers throughout Jackson, Macon and Swain counties and the Qualla Boundary with story times, teacher and parent workshops, teaching aids and parenting and family resources. The Rover is funded by Smart Start as well as by local library funds. Additional support comes from area Friends of the Library and civic groups, North Carolina Community Foundations and private donations. To learn more, download our brochure (pdf).
 

See below for this month's schedule.

 

Storyteller Peggy Gibby enthralls young readers.

While storyteller Margaret "Peggy" Gibby reads stories to preschoolers and leads them in learning songs/rhymes, the Rover driver, Joan Lackey, assists teachers in selecting library materials for their classrooms. At some centers the children select their own library books from the Rover. Books, puzzles, music, puppets, and storytelling kits from the Rover help teachers of young children make learning fun.

Anyone with a FRL library card can check out materials from the Reading Rover. Items from the Rover can be returned to the Rover or to any FRL location.

Rover driver Joan Lackey helps children select just the right book.

In addition, Outreach Services Librarian, Carol Grise, offers training classes to childcare teachers, giving tips on selecting age-appropriate books for the classroom and offering assistance in using the variety of Rover puppets, storytelling kits and books for teaching pre-reading skills. Training classes are also offered to parents for teaching skills on using library materials to develop pre-reading skills at home.

The Reading Rover Bookmobile visits 26 childcare centers in our service area, bringing storytime and library materials "to the door" with the purpose of strengthening pre-reading skills.

Summer Reading Program
Since the Rover is "off the road" in July, Joan and Peggy run the Rover Summer Reading Program in May and June. All classrooms visited by the Reading Rover are encouraged to participate by keeping a classroom reading record and by checking out many Rover books to meet their reading goal.

A record-setting 33 preschool classrooms completed the 2010 Summer Reading Program. A total of 1,848 books were read by childcare center classrooms completing the program.

September 2010 Rover Schedule
 

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

 

 

1 (Macon)

9:30 New Horizons

2 (Qualla)
9:15 Dora Reed

10:15 Agelink

 

3

Off Road

6
Off Road
Labor Day

7 (Jackson)
9:00
Cullowhee Kids

10:00 WCU CC

8 (Swain)
9:00 Bright Adventures
11:00 Bryson City HS

9 (Swain & Qualla)
9:00
Just Like Home

10:00 Log Cabin

11:30 Kaleidoscope

10 (Jackson)
9:00
Webster Inf/Toddlers

10:00 Webster JC/FRC


13
Off Road

14 (Macon & Jackson)
9:00
Trimont Christian Acad.
10:30 Pam's Preschool

15 (Macon)
9:00
Children's Discovery

10:00 Great Beginnings
10:45 Pruett House

16 (Jackson)
9:15
Blue Ridge

9:45 MMO

10:30 Cashiers Valley

11:15 Hampton School

17

Off Road

20
Off Road

21 (Swain)

9:00 Little Hands

10:15 Little Hands 2


22 (Jackson)
8:30
Kidz Playhouse

9:30 Fairview HS A
10:00 Fairview HS B

23 (Qualla)
9:15 Dora Reed

10:15 Agelink

24

Off Road

27
Off Road

 

28 (Macon)

9:30 New Horizons

29 (Swain)

9:00 Bright Adventures
11:00 Bryson City HS

30 (Swain & Qualla)
8:30
Just Like Home

9:30 Log Cabin

11:00 Kaleidoscope

 

 

 

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