PARIS — The Hamlin Library received 77 new children’s books through a grant sponsored by The Libri Foundation. The library raised $350 from local sponsors, including Walmart, Goodwin’s Insurance and personal donations that allowed Hamlin to receive $1400 worth of books from the foundation.

The grant funded a great new collection of nonfiction, picture books and chapter books for kids. The following are the books received.

Picture books: Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones by Byron Barton; A Bedtime for Bear by Bonny Becker; When Dinosaurs Came with Everything by Elise Broach; The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin; Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin; Giggle, Giggle, Quack by Doreen Cronin; Gossie by Olivier Dunrea; Olivia and the Missing Toy by Ian Falconer; Olivia Forms a Band by Ian Falconer; Olivia Saves the Circus by Ian Falconer; The Seals on the Bus by Lenny Hort; I’m Bad by Kate McMullan; I’m Dirty by Kate McMullan; I’m Fast by Kate McMullan; I Stink by Kate McMullan; If You Give a Pig a Party by Laura Numeroff; A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka; A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Erin Stead; Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! by Mo Willems.

Chapter books: The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger; Jack Plank Tells Tales by Natalie Babbitt; A Birthday for Bear by Bonny Becker; Masterpiece by Elise Broach; Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko; Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo; Hurricane Dancers by Margarita Engle; The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke; Coraline by Neil Gaiman; The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge; Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm; Ever by Gail Carson Levine; The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry; Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus.

Children’s nonfiction: Giant Sea Reptiles of the Dinosaur Age by Caroline Arnold; Wild Tracks! by Jim Arnosky; Paleo Bugs by Timothy Bradley; Tracking Trash by Loree Burns; Redwoods by Jason Chin; Yummy by Lucy Cousins; Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley; What the World Eats by Faith D’Aluisio; 14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy; Genius by Marfe Delano; One Grain of Rice by Demi; Titanic Sinks! by Barry Denenberg; Robotics by Helena Domaine; Face to Face with Sharks by David Doubilet; The Trouble Begins at 8 by Sid Fleischman; Amelia Lost by Candace Fleming; Moonshot by Brian Floca; Who Was First? by Russell Freedman; Dinosaurs by Thomas Holtz; Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose; Actual Size by Steve Jenkins; Down, Down, Down by Steve Jenkins; Just a Second by Steve Jenkins; Prehistoric Actual Size by Steve Jenkins; The Boy Who Invented TV by Kathleen Krull; Kubla Khan by Kathleen Krull; Lives of the Pirates by Kathleen Krull; Rachel Carson by Ellen Levine; Something Out of Nothing by Carla McClafferty; Marvelous Mattie by Emily McCully; Anne Frank by Menno Metselaar; Rockets by Ron Miller; Kakapo Rescue by Sy Montgomery; Quest for the Tree Kangaroo by Sy Montgomery; The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery; Truce by Jim Murphy; Exploratopia by Pat Murphy; Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport; Into the Unknown by Stewart Ross; Witches! by Rosalyn Schanzer; How Dinosaurs Took Flight by Christopher Sloan; Almost Astronauts by Tanya Stone; Lucy Long Ago by Catherine Thimmesh; The Frog Scientist by Pamela Turner.