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Childrens Patio Whether you get to the library by biking or walking, join us on the patio for snacks! We'll have a special bike-themed storytime and bike mechanics will be available to help with repairs and tune-ups. |
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Puzzle Swap Saturday, May 10, 2:00-4:00 pm Corner Books
Bring your gently used or new jigsaw puzzles (limit 3 please) to Corner Books in the Library to exchange for different puzzles.
Please make sure they have ALL the pieces, are in good condition and have the original box.
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Join us for a fun and interactive morning of stories, puppets, songs, and a craft. All ages welcome! |
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Join us for stories, rhymes, movement, and fingerplays just for developing babies. Limited capacity for the first 10 pairs of caregivers and infants in the Children's Room. For babies 0-18 months. |
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Children's Patio Any time on any Monday (9-5, weather permitting), come and create your own masterpiece with chalk on our Children's Patio. All ages welcome! |
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Get comfy in your pajamas for stories, songs and rhymes before bedtime. |
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Tuesdays, 10:15- 10:45 AM Founders Room Join us for stories and songs for the little ones! Ages 0-3, open to all |
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Tuesdays, 4:00 PM Founders Room We'll have a fun craft for you to make at the library every Tuesday afternoon. Crafts are geared for ages 5+ Younger kids are welcome. |
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Preschool StorytimeWednesdays, 3:30- 4:00 PM Children's Room Come to the library for stories and songs in the Children's Room! Ages 3-5, open to all
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Bilingual Music Time with Malinky Music Thursdays from 9:15-9:45 am Founders Room Music, rhythm, and bilingual (Spanish and English) fun to encourage language skills and coordination. Ages 2-3 but all ages welcome.
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A book club for early readers (grades 1-2) Thursdays, 4:00 pm (no meeting 5/22 & 5/29) Storytime Room Join us weekly for a group read aloud, discussion and of course cookies! Limited to students in first and second grades. No registration required. |
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Join our free Code Club and create awesome games, animations, and websites! For kids ages 9-13. |
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Sunday, May 4 at 2:00 PM
Storytime Room Open play time with our fun and sturdy Thomas the Train wooden toy collection.
All ages welcome!
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Wednesday, May 7 from 2:30-3:30 pm
Storytime Room
Young readers can practice reading aloud to our fluffy volunteer! No pre-registration necessary, just sign up for a slot when you arrive. |
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Tuesday, May 13 at 5:00 pm This month we're reading about an escape room! Please join us to discuss Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein. We'll have some snacks and do a craft related to the book. |
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Wednesday, May 14 at 2:30 pm
Join us to make your own beautiful marbled paper designs. We will supply the shaving cream, food coloring, and paper! For kids in grade 2 and 3 only. |
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Join our free Code Club and create awesome games, animations, and websites! For kids ages 9-13. |
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Make your own slime! This is a messy project so wear appropriate clothes! Students in grades 4+ only. |
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Thursday, May 22 at 5 pm Storytime Room This month, we’re reading Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr. We’ll enjoy snacks and do an activity related to the book. For grades 4 and up only. |
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Saturday, May 24 at 11:00 AM Founders Room
Come for a fun hour of creating with Lego. Kids can take their Lego creation home with them or leave it here to be re-used at next month's club meeting.
All ages welcome, kids under 5 must be with an adult. |
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Read to a Dog Wednesday, May 28 from 2:30-3:30 pm Children's Room Young readers can practice reading aloud to our fluffy volunteer! No pre-registration necessary, just sign up for a slot when you arrive. |
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You can also get a personalized list. Chat with a librarian who will create a book list just for you. Come by the library or send us an email: jdesk@beltiblibrary.org |
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Though we have several weekly in-person story times, you can also watch some of our recorded story times on the library YouTube channel. Listen to stories and sing along with us wherever you are. |
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Smiling eyes
by Linda Sue Park
For an enthusiastic little boy, an ordinary day is filled with the surprises of seeing and being seen as all around him, people are using their eyes: big eyes, small eyes, eyes that are open wide, or shut tight, or even winking, in a joyous and inclusive celebration of eyes that showcases the variety of Asian eye shapes and hues. .
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To the end of the world, far far away
by Ronda Armitage
When Louis spills his milk and his Mom is frustrated, he decides to head to the end of the world, but before going asks if she'll be sad, prompting her to share how much she'd miss him, in a reassuring story of parental love .
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Papilio
by Ben Clanton
Papilio Polyxenes, a Black Swallowtail Butterfly, is ready to join the work, but growing up is a complicated work in progress and she encounters hiccups along the way, in a story told in three parts by three authors. Simultaneous eBook.
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Safe crossing
by Kari Percival
Every spring, frogs and salamanders travel from wooded uplands to vernal pools, but roads make the journey dangerous, so a citizen scientist acts as a crossing guard and helps them build a tunnel to safety. One of my very favorite new books!
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The Helping Sweater
by Rachel Más Davidson
When a cat pulls a thread loose on the favorite sweater that Maya is excited to wear, she realizes she can use her sweater to help folks in her community throughout the day, and when Maya needs help in turn, someone comes to her rescue!
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Made for more
by Chloe Ito Ward
A narrator defies narrow beauty standards to embrace the skin she's in and her life on the island of Kaua'i, in an exploration of immigration that pays tribute to the identity formed by a girl's Japanese roots and Hawaiian upbringing.
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The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
by Kate McKinnon
Here's a madcap adventure about three sisters who don't belong in their snooty town, school, or adoptive family, and after getting kicked out of the last school that would take them, the girls receive a mysterious invitation to a new school under the tutelage of the infamous Millicent Quibb (a mad scientist with worms in her hair and oysters in her bathtub.) Simultaneous eBook.
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On thin ice
by Jessica Kim
Twelve-year-old fraternal twins Phoebe and Dexter Bae are opposites except for their love of the ice, and when Phoebe's figure skating partner gets injured and Dex is cut from his hockey team, they team up. Simultaneous eBook.
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Island of whispers
by Frances Hardinge
While ferrying the dead teenage daughter of the Lord of Merlock, who isn't ready to let her go, to the island of the Broken Tower, Milo (Ferryman to the dead) must battle armed men, sinister magicians and strange creatures to carry his ghostly passengers across the secret seas.
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Never After : the end of the story
by Melissa De la Cruz
Mysteries abound when Filomena and her friends set off for Neverland where they must navigate mermaids, magical fruit, and prophecies to find and protect Sabine, the last surviving fairy.
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Across so many seas
by Ruth Behar
Spanning over 500 years, this epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family who are united by a love of music and poetry, a desire to belong and to matter, and their longing for a home where all are welcome. Simultaneous eBook.
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