Bookmobile volunteer performer Jewel Clark sings with two of the children at the Cottage Street apartments. This year residential communities such as Cottage Street will see the bookmobile from 3:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays.

Bookmobile making rounds this summer

PARIS – Children of the Oxford Hills will once again be able to visit the Oxford Hills Bookmobile during school vacation. This will be the third summer the bookmobile will bring books and crafts to residential communities and childcare programs throughout the Oxford Hills.

The bookmobile is a community reading program for children of all ages. The mobile library program visits various locations in the Oxford Hills on a regular schedule throughout the summer.

The bookmobile provides books to be checked out, volunteers read books aloud to the children, children participate in a craft, and local performers, such as Jo Plummer and Conni St. Pierre, share their talents.

This year’s theme will be bugs. Books and crafts are selected by library staff to complement the theme.

The program will begin Tuesday, June 24, and continue through Aug. 14. It will operate Tuesday through Thursday, and, for the first time, will operate in the evening on Wednesdays. During the evening hours, the bookmobile will visit residential communities such as Cottage Street and Alpine Park apartments as well as the Oxford Pines regency community.

It will also serve learning and daycare centers from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The program is free to all children at these locations. The bookmobile is funded in part by the Maine Reads program, the Norway-Paris Kiwanis, SAD 17 and other donors.

Volunteers are needed to help the bookmobile staff. Volunteers will read aloud to the children, help them with crafts and assist staff. For more information about volunteering or about the program, call the Norway Memorial Library at 743-5309..