Goffstown unites Pants Event with Women's Appreciation Month

Traveling pants week was great! We had planned a decorating session and we tied in our sisterhood theme with Women's Appreciation Month at the library. We also had "mini pants" for people to write their thoughts about the women in their lives, which will run through May. All in all, we had a great week, and we look forward to doing something like this activity again.

Jessica Stevens, Goffstown Public Library

Ashland Town Library

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6-8 pm
We displayed the pants along with the scrapbook and the series of
books in the main area of our library. Our patrons enjoyed
viewing the items! Jessica, Maddie, Kayley, Chelsea and Heather
all had a great time eating pizza and salad. The girls watched the
movie while they worked on the scrapbook and decorated the
pants. Our thanks to all of the wonderful librarians who created
this program.
Sara Weinberg & Terry Fouts
See photos.

Brentwood's Celebration

We did advertise for our evening, but it must be that this age group has lots of other things happening. We got three girls that showed up, but they had lots of fun. We had pizza, music, drawings for the books, and worked on the traveling pants as well as a pair of our own for the library. The others missed out on a fun time.

Joyce Miller

Children's Librarian
Mary Bartlett Library
Brentwood

Excitement in Exeter over the Pants

Although it was school vacation week and a beautiful, warm day with spring beckoning outside, fifteen creative teens who love the Traveling Pants series came to the multi-activity program planned to celebrate the arrival of our pair of pants. In addition to signing the pants and designing our patch, teens could go wild and crazy on a pair of pants that will remain in our Teen Scene area. Denim bags to decorate and take home were popular. Raffle drawings were held for a DVD of the movie and for copies of the Sisterhood books. The trivia contest was a big hit and yummy food was enjoyed. Best of all, new friends were made amidst discussions of middle school versus high school activities. And one teen quoted from the book, "Don't ask me where I am going...because I don't know. "We do know, however, that the pants are now on their journey to Brentwood.

Jean Grout
Teen Librarian
Exeter Public Library

Fun in Hooksett Despite Lack of Raw Cookie Dough

We had a great time at the Hooksett Public Library when the pants traveled our way! Four girls came to our event night on Tuesday, April 24^th. They were more interested in watching the movie and eating the same snacks the four friends ate at their rules meeting from the book. We offered the girls Strawberry Pop-tarts with strawberry frosting, Cheese Puffs, Gummi worms, and even had them try Odwalla drinks!! (raw cookie dough was NOT offered that night). We did get them to create some attachments with beads for the pants as they watched the movie! We were hoping for more participants, but had a great time with the 4 who did come!! Thanks for the great idea!

Bow's Baker Free Library Introduces Teen Programming with the Pants

Celeste and I had a program on Thursday, April 19th with the Traveling Pants. We did a denim pocket craft making locker magnets out of pockets, signed the pants, worked on a scrapbook page, and had snacks. There was a lot of "buzz" about the pants and people were interested. However, the day of the program we only had two participants. This was the first nice day after many rainy cold days. This is also just the start up of our teen programming in our library. Hopefully, we will have more attendance at future events. Thanks for organizing this state-wide program. It was a unique, interesting program.

Jen Leger