During that time we will be open:

Monday-Thursday 8am-7pm
Friday 8am-4pm

Please note that we will be closed on July 4th and July 16th.

Monday-Friday 8am-4pm

We will be closed on Monday, May 28th for Memorial Day.

Enjoy the break!

“Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, died on Tuesday in Danbury, Conn.”

If it’s been a while since you’ve read his books aloud for kids, or just immersed yourself in the rich illustrations, stop by the Tunxis library to leaf through his work. It is truly for all ages.

Search our catalog for items by and related to Maurice Sendak

Where the Wild Things Are, his most famous book

In the Night Kitchen, his most controversial book

Bumble-ardy, his most recent book, published this fall

Watch the DVD of the 2010 motion picture Where the Wild Things Are.

Terry Gross of NPR has compiled some wonderful interviews with Sendak for broadcast Wednesday, May 8, on Fresh Air and for download.

7. Coriolanus (2012)
6. William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)
5. Richard III (1995)
4. Macbeth (1971)
3. Henry V (1989)
2. Hamlet (1996)
1. Romeo and Juliet (1968)

You can be sure that we will be getting Coriolanus when it comes out on DVD.  A certain librarian who loves Shakespeare also loves Ralph Fiennes.  Any guesses?

Despite their infinite variety of incident, setting, and costume, the myths of the world offer only a limited number of responses to the riddle of life. In this best-selling volume, Joseph Campbell presents the composite hero. Through Campbell’s eyes, we see Apollo, the Frog King of the fairy tale, Wotan, the Buddha, and numerous other protagonists of folklore and religion enacting simultaneously the various phases of their common story. Campbell begins his interpretation of these timeless symbols by examining their relationship to those rediscovered in dreams by depth psychology. The psychological view is then compared with the words of such spiritual leaders as Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Lao-tse, and the Old Men of the Australian tribes. From behind a thousand faces, the single hero emerges, archetype of all myth.

These stimulating conversations between inspirational scholar Joseph Campbell and veteran journalist Bill Moyers created a national sensation when they first aired on public television. In lively, expansive dialogues, the two men discuss how myths hold the key to understanding human experience. They may vary superficially from culture to culture, but at their deepest level they all reveal the path to self-fulfillment, social integration, and ultimately, transcendence.

Join Campbell and Moyers as they touch on topics as diverse as world religions, marriage, the virgin birth, and pop culture. Filmed at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch and New York’s American Museum of Natural History, this series fires the imagination and the intellect.

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

The Pale King by the late David Foster Wallace

Which would you have chosen?  What should have been nominated that wasn’t?

Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to

The late Manning Marable for Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention in History

John Lewis Gaddis for George F. Kennan: An American Life in Biography and

Stephen Greenblatt for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern in Non-Fiction