BookReach coordinator Kathleen Demers reads “The Polar Express” to an attentive audience during a holiday open house at the Auburn Public Library on Sunday. Activities included making glitter snowflakes, caroling by Edward Little High School students, making T-shirts with Girl Scout Troop 282 and a model railroad display by the Great Falls Model Railroad Club. Listening to Demers from left are: Matthew DeMers, 6; Scott Beaudin, Logan McConaughey, 4; Ethan Berube, 3, and Berube’s dad Chris.