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The 2026 summer reading theme for the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) is “Unearth a Story,” which focuses on dinosaurs, paleontology, and archaeology. The slogan, “Unearth a Story,” invites layered interpretations, encouraging readers to discover the joy of reading, uncover history, or explore the past.
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When I spoke to the Cranberry children’s librarian last night, she said that their plan for this theme is to focus on dinosaurs. In my mind, this conjures up Jurassic Park (minus the fatalities). We could start with an underground layer of geologists mining for amber or petrified bones. (Is there an electrical outlet in that case yet?) Also @tbrown00 suggested an underwater section for mosasaurs.
To make more of the above ground areas visible from a child’s perspective, we could build tiers that go upward towards the center. Last night Tim also suggested wooden platforms and I think some of the elevation could be achieved with DUPLO.
The display will be installed in June, so we’re in the brainstorming phase now. Please feel free to offer suggestions and/or to commit to certain aspects of the build. @tfdesigns @rcgrier3406 @bengood921 @timf @joshhall @krista @amplef0rth @argonvesher
I can contribute these dinosaur skeletons from the display we did at the Science Center in 2021. The rest of the scene has been disassembled but I still have the dinosaur skeletons together in a box somewhere in the garage. The Diplodocus is a MOC (Dippy from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History), and the rest are from the LEGO Ideas Dinosaur Fossil set from a few years ago.
@greg, there is power (extension cord) available in that case.Savy asked me to do a Quetzalcoatlus for my flyer. So that’s going to likely be what I build for suspension. I imagine it’ll be roughly the size that my Black Dragon was. Savy also suggested the Mosasaurus but there is an existing brickbuilt set of that and it’ll require us to create an aquatic scene. So I’m not going to commit to that one for now. Figure if someone else wants to build out an Aquatic scene and if nobody wants to bring the brick built set then maybe I can pivot back to that but for now and am considering instead a Spinosaurus which can go either on land or water and thus can fit into whatever we decide to build terrain wise.
I have the baby dinosaurs… Bumpy, Eatie and Delores and some other random dinosaur figures… A t-rex, raptors, anklyosaurus, pterydactal, etc.
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