The Start of Fall

Fall officially begins on September 22 and the 2008 harvest moon is on September 15!
Find out about the seasons!

Join us for some fun fall programs! Check out Super Saturdays, After School is Cool! and the Children's Library Events Calendar.

Read these great books about fall:

Boo and Baa Have Company by Lena and Olof Landström Oliver Finds His Way by Phyllis Root Autumn/Otoño by JoAnn Early Macken A Colorado Autumn by John Fielder Go to Sleep, Groundhog by Judy Cox Read more! See all books about the fall!

Fall is the time of harvest! Gathering the crops is an important time of the year everywhere. Check out these stories of harvests and harvest celebrations around the world. In one book, a girl travels to her grandmother's for harvest moon day. In another, two children use a toy to return the Corn Maidens' blessings to their crops after a drought. In others, there are stories of many different festivals. Read and enjoy!

We Gather Together: Celebrating the Harvest Season by Wendy Pfeffer Dancing the Ring Shout! by Kim L. Siegelson Thrashin' Time: Harvest Days in the Dakotas by David Weitzman The Autumn Equinox: Celebrating the Harvest by Ellen Jackson The Story of Thanksgiving by Robert Merrill Bartlett Sori's Harvest Moon Day: A Story of Korea by Lee Uk-Bae Aisha's Moonlit Walk: Stories and Celebrations for the Pagan Year by Anika Stafford Itse Selu: Cherokee Harvest Festival by Daniel Pennington Dragonfly's Tale by Kristina Rodanas Find more books on harvest celebrations.

One of our favorite crops to harvest in the fall? Pumpkins! There are great stories, rhymes, facts and pictures about them in the books below.

The Pumpkin Patch: A Traditional Buddhist Tale retold by Sybil Taylor The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons Pepper Picks a Pumpkin by Linda Bleck Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson El círculo de las calabazas: historia de un huerto by George Levenson Pumpkin Town! (Or, Nothing Is Better and Worse Than Pumpkins) by Katie McKy Pumpkin Harvest by Calvin Harris See more books about pumpkins!