Don't forget to come by and signup for the Henryetta Public Library Summer Reading Program!

The first program will be held on Monday, June 6 at 1:30 p.m. at Veteran's Park, next to the library.

Bring a lawn chair and join us!

Currently, Henryetta Public Library has several books by author Cynthia Rylant available to check out.

Books include “All in a Day,” “Annie and Snowball and the Teacup Club,” “Puppies and Piggies,” “Walt Disney’s Cinderella,” “Missing May” and “A Fine White Dust.”

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY:

American author and librarian, Cynthia Rylant, was born June 6, 1954 in Hopewell, W.V.

She authored over 100 fiction, nonfiction and poetry books for children.

Her father was a U.S. Army veteran and they lived her first four years in Illinois.

Her parents separated when she was four when she went to live with her mother’s parents in the Appalachian Region of the United States while her mother attended nursing school.

Rylant grew up in a home with no electricity or running water.

She never saw her father again and he died when she was 13.

After four years living with her grandparents, she moved with her mother to Beaver, W.V.

Rylant earned her M.A. Degree from Marshall University in West Virginia in 1976, married in 1977, taught English part-time at Marshall University and wrote her first book, When I Was Young in the Mountains published in 1982.

She divorced in 1980 and moved to Kent, Ohio where she attended Kent University and earned her Master’s Degree in Library Science . Soonafter, she worked as a librarian.

While at Kent University, she met a special friend, author Dav Pilkey and in 1990 they moved to Eugene, Oregon together with her son, Nate.

They enjoyed a quiet life in a small green house in the woods.

Rylant enjoys reading, going to the movies and watching TV. She collects teapots and quilts.

She uses her mother’s maiden name “Rylant” as her pen name.