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Family Movie Night: Coco
Monday, April 2, 6pm
Join us to watch Coco on our big screen in the library! Light refreshments will be available. The movie is rated PG. No registration is required for this event.
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1,2,3 Sing with Marylee
Tuesday, April 3, 10:30am
Join us for a special musical visit by award winning children’s musician MaryLee Sunseri! She will delight children with songs, fingerplays & wiggle-tunes for babies and toddlers. No registration is necessary.
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Fairy Tale Engineering
Thursday, April 5, 3:30pm
Engineers in preschool - 3rd grade will engage directly with the engineering design process as they experiment with different materials and build prototypes to solve problems for beloved fairy tale characters. This program is presented by the Bay Area Discovery Museum. No registration is required.
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Rigamajig STEM Play
Wednesday, April 4, 10am
Wednesday, April 4, 10am - 9pm
Thursday, April 5, 12pm - 6pm
Friday, April 6, 12pm - 6pm
Saturday, April 7, 12pm - 5pm
Sunday, April 8, 1 - 5pm
Monday, April 9, 12 - 4pm
Tuesday, April 10, 12 - 2pm
Rigamajig is a new large-scale building kit designed for hands-on free play and playful STE(A)M learning. This collection of wooden planks, wheels, pulleys, nuts, bolts and rope allows children to follow their curiosity through play while learning 21st century skills. There are no right or wrong answers; the act of playing and building is the goal, not the finished product. The Rigamajig will be available in the children’s room during the aforementioned dates and times.
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STEAM Club Jr.
Monday, April 9, 6pm
Children's Library
Kids age 6 - 12 are invited to make mini magnet wands. No registration is required, but supplies may be limited.
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Mr. Q's Toddler Dance Party
Tuesday, April 10, 3pm
Children age 2 - 5 are invited to join us for a fun dance party! Come and have an awesome time at Rockin' Out with Mister Q! He brings us a fun and interactive program with finger plays, classic nursery songs, stories, jokes, small and large movement activities and instrument play. No registration is necessary.
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1st Grade Book Club
Monday, April 16, 6pm
Discovery Room
Children who are currently in first grade are invited to join a monthly book club to practice their reading skills. We will meet on the third Monday of each month to discuss a book we’ve read at home beforehand. We will discuss the book, read sections aloud, play a game, and have a small snack. Registration is required to join the book club. Please register your child at the information desk or call us at 650-574-4842 to register your child. Pick up the book at the information desk when you register your child and your child will need to bring the book with him or her when the book club meets.
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Juan L. Sanchez Musical Fiesta
Saturday, April 21, 12pm
Celebrate Dia de los Niños y Niñas with San Mateo County Libraries! This interactive show will have children of all ages playing, dancing, clapping, giggling and singing to Juan's catchy multilingual tunes. It's a Musical Fiesta and everyone's invited! Bring your dancing shoes and your smiles! No registration is required for this event.
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Bilingual Spanish Storytime
Saturday, 4/21, 10:30am
Various Saturdays at 10:30am on the following dates: 4/21, 5/19, & 6/16. Join us for bilingual stories, songs, and activities the whole family will enjoy. This is an interactive experience centered around adult-child interactions and participation. Children of all ages are welcome and no registration is required.
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The Beetlelady
Monday, April 23, 3:30pm
Bugs are captivating, engaging, and accessible. The Beetlelady educates people of all ages about science and nature through hands-on learning with bugs. Come join Beetlelady at the library for a presentation on the fascinating world of bugs! Families will learn about the helpful roles bugs play in our environment and get to interact with live bugs up close. Registration is not necessary for this program.
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Jingle Bracelets
Tuesday, April 24, 3:30pm
Children of all ages are invited to make a jungle bracelet for Dia de los Ninos. No registration is necessary, but supplies may be limited.
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Lego Club
Thursday, April 26, 3:30pm
Children's Library
Lego Club meets on the 4th Thursday of each month on the following dates: 4/26 & 5/24. Children age 6 - 12 are invited to join us. We will read a few stories about a topic and then build a lego creation related to what we have read. No registration.
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Yoga Storytime with Leyna
Friday, April 27, 10:30am
Join us for a playful, family oriented yoga experience for caregivers and children. Through self-empowering themes, music, props, singing, and parenting insights, we tell stories with our bodies, minds and hearts! All skills level welcome to play, engage, and learn with us. Some child-sized mats provided; personal mats welcome. No registration is required.
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Middle school is worse than meatloaf : a year told through stuff
by Jennifer L. Holm
Told entirely through notes, grocery receipts, report cards, bottle caps, and a vast array of other items, this hilarious story follows Ginny, who is having the worst school year ever, as she accidentally dyes her hair pink, throws live frogs in class, and loses the lead role in ballet to her ex-best friend.
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How to grow up and rule the world
by Scott Seegert
The evil genius Vordak the Incomprehensible conveys to the inferior masses his nefarious methods for achieving ultimate control of the planet.
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the ugly truth
by Jeff Kinney
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future
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Mr. Klutz is nuts!
by Dan Gutman
A skateboarding principal offers unusual incentives to his students to motivate them to learn more
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Bad kitty goes to the vet
by Nick Bruel
Scratching and clawing his way to the vet, an under-the-weather Bad Kitty receives a shot that causes him to have a vivid dream about needing to resolve differences with Puppy in order to gain entrance to PussyCat Heaven.
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The Bolds
by Julian Clary
Two hyenas from Africa find a pair of passports (memo: do not go swimming in a crocodile pool), and move to Teddington, England, where they live suburban lives, hold jobs, and raise their children to hide their tails and act human--the only trouble is old Mr. McNumpty, their nosy neighbor, who is hiding a secret of his own
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The 39-story treehouse
by Andy Griffiths
Having expanded their treehouse to an astonishing 39 stories, Andy and Terry describe the invention of their Once-Upon-a-Time machine, which they have designed to write and illustrate their stories for them. By the author of Killer Koalas From Outer Space.
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How to train your dragon
by Cressida Cowell
Wanting to capture and train a fierce dragon in order to prove his courage to those in the Viking chiefdom, heir-to-be Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III finds the smallest dragon in the woods who ends up becoming the most loved creature in the land.
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