Library hosts storyteller

The Whitehouse Community Library is hosting Dru Woods, renowned storyteller, puppeteer, interpreter and more on Monday, Nov. 12.

WCL, along with the other Smith County libraries (SALT: Smith County Area Libraries Together), are celebrating National Children's Book Week by having Woods perform at a different library each night.

The theme of this year's Children's Book Week is Rise Up Reading! This week is a celebration of the written word.

Children's Book Week introduces young people to books, authors, illustrators and ideas in schools, libraries, homes and bookstores. Through Children's Book Week, the Children's Book Council encourages young people and their caregivers to discover the complexity of the world beyond their own experience through books.

People learn, grow, and benefit from reading in their day-today lives because so much of today's information is only available through the written word- in books, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and even on television.

Children cannot "Rise Up" to this challenge without many, many hours of reading practice, and it's impossible for anyone to read that much without first developing a love of reading. During Children's Book Week, parents, educators and other caregivers can "Rise Up" to this challenge and take a stand.