Friends of the Edison Public Library

We have two important pieces of news regarding our Town Wide Spelling Bee: Firstly, all 200 available places were filled. The successful applicants should have already received a confirmation via e-mail (or regular mail, if no e-mail address was given) with further information. We are working as quickly as we can to return checks to [...]

Just a quick reminder that the application period for our Town Wide Spelling Bee is now closed. When we decided to run a spelling bee, we had no idea whether anyone would be interested in it. The response has been phenomenal. We had to close Division 1 before the March 25 deadline, because we had [...]

This is the first time we have run this event, and so we had no idea how much interest there would be in a town wide spelling bee. The response has far exceeded our expectations! Due to the physical limitations of our venue (Woodrow Wilson Middle School), we had to limit the number of children [...]

The published word lists for our 2011 town wide spelling bee are now online in PDF format for you to print. Here is the word list for Division 1 (Grades 1-3), and here is the word list for Division 2 (Grades 4 and 5). Remember that for each division, ten of these words will be [...]

Just a quick update to let you know that we will be publishing word lists for our Spelling Bee this coming Tuesday, March 22. The words on the word lists will be used for the first two rounds only. Round one (written) will consist of twenty words, ten of which will come from the published [...]

Friends of the Edison Library Spelling Bee Saturday, April 30, 2011 Woodrow Wilson Middle School The Friends of the Edison Public Library is sponsoring its first town wide spelling bee on Saturday, April 30, 2011, at Woodrow Wilson Middle School at 50 Woodrow Wilson Drive, Edison. Our purpose is to support literacy among the children [...]

Between the hours of 10am ET on Thursday 12/9 and 12:59pm ET on Friday 12/10, a simple web search using the search bar at iGive.com could result in $1 being donated to us by the site. But you do have to use the following link, and you do have to join the site. Here’s the link:

http://www.igive.com/welcome/warm_reg_promo.cfm?c=28655

On November 13th and 14th, Friends of the Edison Public Library held our annual Fall Booksale at the North Edison Branch Library. The economy definitely had an effect on how many books people bought, but it is our major fundraiser of the year, and you did not disappoint. The sale was a great success! Thanks to our customers, book donors and volunteers.

Friends of the Edison Public Library Fall Book Sale:

Saturday, Nov. 13, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 14, 12 noon – 4 p.m.
North Edison Branch Library
777 Grove Avenue, Edison

Thousands of books in many categories – fiction & nonfiction, hardcover & paperback, including children’s books & large print.

Most books 50¢-$1.50.

On Thursday, June 17 at 7pm, award-winning author Chris Grabenstein will be coming to the North Edison Branch Library to talk about his personal background, his writing experiences, and his novels. Grabenstein is the author of screenplays, made-for-TV movies, Muppet scripts and has written the Christopher Miller Holiday thrillers and a series of ghost stories [...]