Book to Action

PARTNERS

Graphic Novel Book Club

UN Association Film Festival

Teen Library Advisory Board

Seniors At Home

Fantagraphics

Office of Human Services, City of Palo Alto

Friends of the Palo Alto Library

California Center for the Book

California State Library

California Center for the Book is a program of the California Library Association, supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

ONLINE EVENTS

Monday, August 3Letters of Love Hosted by TLAB

(Tweens & Teens)4PM

Tuesday, August 11

The Who, What, and Why of Estate Planning and Fiduciary Services

11AM

Thursday, August 13Wrinkles Book Discussion

Hosted by the Graphic Novel Book Club 7PM

Thursday, August 20UNAFF in Libraries:

The Genius of Marian7PM

Thursday, August 27Dementia, Loneliness, and

COVID-19: What Can We Do? ft. Alanna Shaikh, TED Fellow

7PM

Register at: bit.ly/paclbta

BOOK LIST

for Adults:

☐ The Conscious Caregiver, Linda Abbit

☐ Holding the Net, Melanie Merriman

☐ The 36 Hour Day, Nancy L. Mace & Peter V. Rabins

☐ Before I Forget, B. Smith & Dan Gasby

☐ Still Alice, Lisa Genova

☐ Fighting for My Life, Jamie TenNapel Tyrone, Marwan Noel Sabbagh, MD

☐ ABCs of Alzheimer’s Disease, Bruce Bauer

☐ Slow Dancing with a Stranger, Meryl Comer

☐ Like Falling Through a Cloud, Eugenia Zukerman

for Kids:

☐ The Remember Balloons, Jessie Oliveros

☐ Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, Mem Fox

☐ What a Beautiful Morning, Arthur Levine

☐ Always My Grandpa, Linda Scacco

☐ Forget Me Not, Nancy Van Laan

☐ Still My Grandma, Veronique van den Abeele

☐ My Grandpa, Marta Altes

DEMENTIA/ALZHEIMER’S KITS

Palo Alto City Library is excited to announce our new collection of Dementia/Alzheimer’s Kits, available for checkout at Rinconada Library. Research indicates that interactive and multi-sensory materials used with people with Dementia/Alzheimer’s promote positive results.

We have three different types of kits:

Memory Lane KitsThese kits contain music, photos/books, artifacts, cookbooks, conversation cards, and games from the 1940s, 1950s, or 1960s.

Memory Activity Kits These kits contain memory games, manipulative activities, reusable art projects, music CDs, photos/books, conversation cards and puzzles for Early to Mid, Mid to Late, and Late Stage Alzheimer’s/Dementia levels.

Caregiver KitsThese kits contain resources and information for caregivers including, books, consumable pamphlets on various aspects of Dementia/Alzheimer’s, and supplemental materials include topics such as self-care, stages of the disease, caregiver tips and strategies, as well as national and California resources.

All Dementia/Alzheimer’s Kits are funded in whole or in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the LSTA grant, administered by the California State Librarian.

library.cityofpaloalto.org/bta#BookToAction

ABOUTPalo Alto City Library is excited to participate in the California Center for the Book/California State Library Book to Action program! This grant-funded program expands the book club concept to create a dynamic series of events for adults and intergenerational groups centered on an issue that is important to the local community. From the book, we move to action with a service project designed to engage the community with the selected issue.

Our Book to Action series is based around the adult graphic novel, Wrinkles by Paco Roca. This at times funny and heart-wrenching story captures a snapshot of life with Alzheimer’s and humanizes a difficult topic.

Throughout July and August, we will be giving away copies of the book for free to patrons (while supplies last) and hosting a series of events throughout the month of August that are focused on creating understanding and empathy around aging, Alzheimer’s and dementia, and encouraging engagement and connection with the Seniors in our community.

Our service project will be centered on ameliorating isolation and loneliness for Seniors in our community through writing Letters of Love. We will be hosting a virtual event for teens to write letters for delivery to residents in care facilities, and hopefully developing lasting intergenerational relationships. We encourage anyone in the community to participate in our Letters of Love campaign, and consider offering your time to be a pen pal with care facility residents. For more details, visit library.cityofpaloalto.org/bta.

SERVICE PROJECT

WRINKLES

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