Amazing Teacher visits, magical Mark Daniel visits as “Be Creative @ Your Library” continues

“Celebrate” ordinary people who accomplish extraordinary things as Steve Somers, the Amazing Teacher, brings his fast-paced, high energy children’s program to the Liberty Public Library at 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 21. The program is part of “Be Creative @ Your Library,” the Randolph County Public Library’s Summer Reading Program.

With amazing tricks, puppets and lots of audience participation, Somers and his sidekick Jazzmo the Jazzman will share some of the most influential music of the 20th Century, and highlight a fun assortment of contemporary and classic books. Somers’ appearance is free, as are all the library’s Summer Reading activities, and the public is invited.

Meanwhile, magical storyteller Mark Daniel continues his visits to each library with an appearance at the Archdale library, 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 22. Other activities for the week of July 20 include:

• NASA and Space Exploration, Asheboro library, 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 22;
• Crime Scene Investigation with Det. Charles Burrow of the Asheboro Police Department, Asheboro library, 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 22;
• Family Movie Friday featuring Cars, Asheboro library, 7 p.m. July 24;
• Movie "Bee Movie," Archdale library, 2 p.m. Thursday, July 23;
• “Free Play,” Franklinville library, 2 p.m. Thursday, July 23;
• Randolph County Senior Steppers, Ramseur library (at Ramseur Municipal Building), 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 23;
• African Storytelling with “Mama J,” Randleman Library, 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 23;
• “Movie Magic,” Randleman library, 4 p.m. Thursday, July 23;
• Space Travel, Seagrove library, 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 21.

Weekly storytimes take place at the Asheboro library: school-age storytime, 3:15 p.m. Tuesdays; family storytime, 7 p.m. Tuesdays; toddler storytime, 10:10 a.m. Wednesdays; and all-ages storytimes, 10:30 a.m. Thursdays. For more details and complete schedules for all libraries, go here.

The Summer Reading Program is supported by the Friends of the Randolph Public Library and by a North Carolina Arts Council Grassroots Grant via the Randolph Arts Guild. In all, the seven libraries are hosting almost 150 Summer Reading Program events for children, teens and adults through early August, and the Extension services department will take another 100 or so out into the community.