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Online Big Kids Booktime

Ms. Catherine reading to children in the library's sunflower house.

Every Thursday at 10 AM

Preschool storytimes are coming right to you these days, via Zoom. Join Miss Catherine, or occasional special guest presenters, for a half hour of picturebooks, music, singing, creative play and a little socializing.

To receive your Zoom invite to allow you and your child to join, please email //cabaer@rgpl.org">Catherine.

This fall let’s explore how our excursions have changed, and how we feel about it. Some of our storytime themes will be about places we can only visit right now through stories, picturebooks, songs and rhymes or games. Others will be places we can visit just with our family and have plenty of space around us to know we are staying safe and healthy.

Here at the library we are committed to helping our community stay safe during these uncertain times. All of our storytimes will be offered online for now, so you can enjoy them from the safety of your own home, and via Zoom, so that we can interact together.

For each session's theme see our schedule.

DiNovember with Colossal Fossils

Anhanguera skull from the Colossal Fossils museum in Wausau, Wisconsin

Spend "DiNovember" with Colossal Fossils! Every Wednesday in November at 3:30, via Zoom

Register for these fun and fascinating Colossal Fossils Paleontology programs! Each session will include a 45 minute presentation, followed by a 15 minute live Q & A, so that students can have their questions answered. The series is geared toward Elementary school-aged students.
We will have each recording for three days in case you miss a session.  Each week will use the same Zoom login. Register by calling the library @ 608-798-3881, or email Catherine, cabaer@rgpl.org.

Schedule:

November 4 - Predators and Prey

Take a close look at fossils from some of the most famous meat and plant-eating dinosaurs that ever lived.

November 11 - T-Rex

The king of the dinosaurs has that title for a reason.  Explore this childhood favorite and examine bones and other fossils.

November 18 - Ice Age Giants

North America was teeming with enormous mammals during the last Ice Age.  From mammoths to bears, learn about them all.

November 25 - Sea Monsters

Giant sharks, enormous lizards, frightening fish.  The oceans were filled with huge predators, and you're about to see them up close.

Online Wigglers and Gigglers Storytime (for babies and toddlers)

Two toddlers playing with colorful toys in the library storytime room.

Every Tuesday Morning at 10 AM

Baby/Toddler storytimes are coming right to you these days, via Zoom. Join Miss Catherine, for about a half hour of picturebooks, music, singing, creative movement and a little socializing.

To receive your Zoom invite to allow you and your child to join, please contact Catherine.

This fall let’s explore how our excursions have changed, and how we feel about it. Some of our storytime themes will be about places we can only visit right now through stories, picturebooks, songs and rhymes or games. Others will be places we can visit just with our family and have plenty of space around us to know we are staying safe and healthy.

Here at the library we are committed to helping our community stay safe during these uncertain times. All of our storytimes will be offered online for now, so you can enjoy them from the safety of your own home, and via Zoom, so that we can interact together.

For each session's theme see our schedule.

Tween Book Club

book cover for Other Half of Happy, quote and photo of author Rebecca Barcarcel

Monday, November 30 - 4 - 5 PM

The Other Half of Happy by

 
12-year-old Quijana likes to say that she used to be Pangaea. Unsplit. Not half white or half Latina. But that was before her Guatemalan cousins moved to town and before her dad asked her to speak some Spanish. Now her continents are splitting apart. Let’s face it, when you’re named after Spain’s most famous loser, Don Quixote, you might make a secret escape plan. Join Quijana as she earns to make a tortilla, comes of age in the Guatemalan-American hyphen, and discovers her missing half.

Chronicle brings us poet Rebecca Balcárcel's middle grade novel about a biracial girl who's navigating between the Anglo and Guatemalan sides of her family, a burgeoning crush and a cool new friend, and trying to figure out what's going on with her little brother, who is becoming remote and hard to reach, all while trying to determine just who she is.

To join us, or for more information, email Catherine at cabaer@rgpl.org.

Library copies of the book will be available for checkout or curbside pickup at the Rosemary Garfoot Public Library.

***Please Note: this book qualifies for our Read Woke From Home reading challenge!!***

Library Kids Who Care

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Parent Zone

Are you about to embark on a new adventure like potty training your child? There is help waiting for you in the Parent Zone of our children's department. Take a look at the variety of resources this special collection has to offer.