Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Read Happy!

Has social distancing got you down in the dumps? The staff at Emmet O'Neal Library wants you to Read Happy this spring. We put together a list of our favorite books, movies, and tv shows that make us HAPPY!

If you want to take happiness a step further, join the Read Happy challenge. Register through the library's virtual reading challenge site, Beanstack, by clicking HERE for the Read Happy Challenge.

Adults over 18 can register, read, and enjoy virtual programs and activities to earn badges. 

Those badges will earn you an entry into our weekly drawing.

Since our friends and neighbors in the Mountain Brook Villages have had to close or modify their services, we are using this reading challenge as an opportunity to help them out. Each week we will give away a gift card to a local business. Many are still open and the gift cards can be used now, just call ahead and/or check the business website for more information.

Below is a brief explanation of our digital services, and after that? Read Happy!

Libby by Overdrive 
The app is available for Android and iOs.  For laptops/computers, click the Libby button on our website at www.eolib.org. Login with your library card.

Hoopla
The app is available for Android, iOs, and smart tv/player apps like Roku.  For laptops/computers, visit www.hoopladigital.com. Create an account with your library card, email, and password creation. Hoopla is not available in all areas.

Internet Archive National Emergency Library (NEL)
Until the end of June, IA has made their library of over 1.4 million ebooks free to any user around the world. Create a free account, search their catalog, borrow, and read!

Kanopy
The app is available for Android, iOs, and smart tv/player apps like Roku. For laptops/computers, click the Kanopy button on our website at www.eolib.org. Create an account with your library card, email, and password creation. Kanopy is not available in all areas.


And now, for our list of books, movies, and tv shows that make us HAPPY!

Links for books will take you to: Overdrive/Libby or hoopla
Links for movies/tv will take you to hoopla or kanopy

Books:
The Teacher's Funeral by Richard Peck
The Ramona Quimby Audio Collection by Beverly Cleary (collection includes Beezus and Ramona, Ramona the Pest, Ramona the Brave, Ramona and Her Father, Ramona and Her Mother, Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Ramona Forvever, and Ramona's World. AND - read by Stockard Channing!)
The Phantom Tollbooth by Jules Feiffer

Streaming Movies & TV

Did one of these books or movies make you happy? Have you enjoyed a different title not on the list that made you happy? Let us know! You can find us on social media, we would love to hear from you.




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