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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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Tuesdays, 10:15- 10:45 AM Founders Room Join us for stories and songs for the little ones! Ages 2-3, open to all |
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Tuesdays,3:30-4:30 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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Founders Room Join us for an interactive and fun bilingual Spanish and English story time for infants and toddlers. All ages welcome! |
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COOKIE CLUB ??
Thursdays, 4-4:30 PM
Children's Lab
Weekly book group for kids in grades 1 & 2! We will read a book aloud, and discuss it while having a cookie snack.
For grades 1 and 2, no registration necessary.
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Young readers can practice reading during a private read-aloud session with our volunteer dog who is all ears! No pre-registration required; sign in for a slot at the Children's desk when you arrive.
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We regularly create book lists on upcoming holidays and interesting topics, as well as grade level recommendation lists. This month check out some of our favorite picture books about Thanksgiving. 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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Hazel is all that
by Chad Otis
By carefully observing dogs in a park, a girl learns that people are a mix of different emotions.
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Giant parsnip soup
by Daniela Sosa
Friends gather ingredients from one to ten to make a delicious parsnip soup together.
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The interrupted plans of Mango and Nan
by Hala Tahboub
When Mango and his grandmother's plans for an ice-cream outing are spoiled by a broken faucet, they devise a plan to fix the leak and get their dessert.
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The elevator on 74th street
by Laura Gehl
An elevator named Ellie loves watching the tenants in her apartment building come and go, and helps her favorite tenant make a new friend.
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Fish friends forever
by Kerry Ferguson
A young girl loves her pet fish, Frank, and they spend many happy hours together. She is inconsolable when Frank dies. He was her forever friend, and she could never love another fish. Or could she?
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The great mouse escape
by James Patterson
Talking mouse Isaiah is free from the experiments that left him with blue fur and a big voice, and living a picture-perfect life with his human friend, Hailey. But the evil scientists--and their evil talking cats--are hot on Isaiah's trail.
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The enemy's daughter
by Anne Blankman
In 1915, Marta and her father are trying to get home to Germany when her father is detained and Marta is welcomed into an Irish family's home, in a story about friendship and learning to think for oneself. Simultaneous eBook.
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Rebellion 1776
by Laurie Halse Anderson
In 1776, 13-year-old Elspeth is alone in a city ravaged by the smallpox epidemic and finds work taking care of a large, wealthy family as they await a turn at inoculation, as she also tries to find her father who went missing during the Siege of Boston. Simultaneous eBook.
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This way to happy
by Alison Green Myers
12 year old Reilly Rhoades struggles to keep her family's amusement park afloat while grieving the death of her beloved grandfather. Meeting purple-haired free spirit Alex helps her navigate her grief and make new plans.
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