What are you grateful for, part 2.

Have you thought of what you are grateful for?  You never know when it will be your turn on camera!

Burbank Close-Up with Todd Aaron Jensen.

Straight from the Burbank Channel, a new seqment of Burbank Close-Up with Todd Aaron Jensen, author of On Gratitude.



What are you grateful for?

Burbank READs Kick-off Event - Author talk and World Gratitude Day!

Join us for the big kickoff event for this year's Burbank READs program.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011


7:00 PM
Buena Vista Branch Library
300 N. Buena Vista St.
818-238-5620

Join us as we kick-off Burbank READs with a special World Gratitude Day Celebration.  Todd Aaron Jensen, Burbank resident and author of this year's book selection, will share stories of thanksgiving from his book  ON GRATITUDE and tell how to write your own gratitude list.

ON GRATITUDE will be available for purchase and signing along with refreshments and giveaways!

We're Grateful for...how about you?

Here are a few things that we're grateful for at the Burbank Public Library.  What are you grateful for?

Burbank READs....On Gratitude compiled by Todd Aaron Jensen

This year, as the City of Burbank celebrates our centennial anniversary, Burbank READs announces our selection of On gratitude : Sheryl Crow, Jeff Bridges, Alicia Keys, Daryl, Hall, Ray Bradbury, Anna Kendrick, B. B. King, Elmore Leonard, Deepak Chopra, and 42 more celebrities share what they're most thankful for [compiled] by Todd Aaron Jensen as our 2011 selection.

So Burbank, what are you grateful for?  Family, friends, your job, pizza, rainbows, the beach, good books to read, that there will be a NFL season or?  We hope that you will share what you are grateful for with us beginning with our kick-off event on September 21 [a talk with author Todd Aaron Jensen] to our big finale on October 29, The Party of 100 Thanks.

Check back frequently as there are many upcoming events to be revealed...oh and we, of course, hope that you are grateful for the Burbank Public Library!

Burbank Public Library Young Adult Services presents a Burbank TEEN Reads Contest!

October 1-31, 2010

Teens in Grades 6-12
Mastermind a Murder Mystery!
Scribble a Sleuth Story!
Write a Who Dunnit!

We’re looking for suspenseful stories…set in Burbank!

• Who slew the San Fernando Road Starbucks barrista and left only his apron to tell the tale?
• Who is hiding stolen treasure among the stacks at the Northwest Library
• What do those slightly scary 11th-grade twins have in their backpacks, and what does it have to do with the statue missing from the quad at Burroughs High?!

Write a mystery story that takes place in a Burbank setting. Pen two to five pages (typed, or handwritten—neatly!) and turn it in at the Reference Desk of any Burbank Public Library—OR attach it to an email and send it to mystify_me@earthlink.net by October 31.

Burbank Public Library staff will read your stories and select three top writers,
who will read their stories aloud for our new teen blog! (If you’re too shy, you can designate another reader…) In addition, there will be PRIZES for first, second and third place, and two honorable mentions. GOOD LUCK, mysterious scriveners!

Winners will be notified by November 12
(Extra credit may be given at your teacher’s discretion.)

Stop the Presses! Film Program: Woman of the Year

Burbank Public Library Presents

Stop the Presses!

A Special Burbank READS Film Program

Woman of the Year

Friday, October 8, 2:00 PM

The first film starring the legendary screen team of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, this savvy dramatic comedy from 1942 plays off the unlikely match of polar opposites--the brash sports reporter Sam Craig (Tracy) and the brilliant political commentator Tess Harding (Hepburn) from the New York Chronicle--whose marriage grabs front-page headlines. Balancing her flashy career with marital turns out to be a complicated challenge for the worldly Tess, whose down-to-earth husband struggles to support her ambition while keeping their marriage from falling apart. Woman of the Year was directed by George Stevens, from a screen'lay by Ring Lardner Jr. and Micharel Kanin. ---114 minutes.

Burbank Central Library
110 N. Glenoaks Blvd.
818.238.5600

www.BurbankLibrary.com
Funded by the Friends of the Burbank Public Library