Help your child get ready to read with our hands-on activities designed to promote early literary skills. Children will learn through activities inspired by Loose Parts which provide an open-ended environment for your child to play and explore for ages 3-5.

Creative props and interactive storytelling techniques will showcase the timeless lessons of famous and less-familiar tales that are more than 2,000 years old. The starring characters include a sly fox, crafty crow, fat frog, wise father and maybeÉyou? Stay to decorate a frog bookmark.

The Griffon String Quartet will perform a children's concert. Music will be paired with a themed storybook reading. Stay for a craft making your own instrument.

Meet Zoom squirrel from Mo Willems' Unlimited Squirrels series. We will share squirrel stories and funny acorn jokes. Stay for an acorn craft.

The family friendly event (formerly Comic Con) is for all ages. Enter a cosplay contest, play new and favorite board games, shop, meet with creators in our Artist Alley and much more! Featuring science fiction and fantasy author Lori M Lee, artist Robb Mommaerts and Bryan Carr of Serious Fun podcast. Check the library's website […]

This event will get your creativity flowing with a book presentation and introduction to fairy tale garden features. Then create tiny shelters for fairies and gnomes that you can take home. Indoors and/or out depending on weather. For ages 5-10.

Join our special guest from the Neville Public Museum to learn all about the science of light--what is light, what is it made of, how does it move, and how do our eyes see it? You'll be an expert when you visit the Neville's Spectacular Science exhibits to learn more this fall!

Meet Bruce the Bear and be prepared to enjoy stories and songs about berries and bears!

Storytime with Dads is BACK!! Join us for stories, songs and laughs led by a local dad with passion for fun! For ages 4-7.

On Wednesdays in the summer, enjoy "Summer in the City" with different performances each week at the Central Library at 10AM & 1:30PM. Shows take place in the auditorium. Shows are approximately 45 minutes. Seating is available on a first-arrival basis. For school-age kids ages 5 & up.

On Wednesdays in the summer, enjoy "Summer in the City" with different performances each week at the Central Library at 10AM & 1:30PM. Shows take place in the auditorium. Shows are approximately 45 minutes. Seating is available on a first-arrival basis. For school-age kids ages 5 & up.

Are you a fan of graphic novels? Ever wanted to create your own? Join our Dav Pilkey inspired Cat Kid Comic Club and learn the ins and outs of the writing/drawing process. Artist, performer, film maker and teacher Craig Knitt will help us create our own comics.

Join us for Family Storytime. Join us for a look into the creatures that live under the seaÉfrom majestic mermaids to creepy krakens.

Join us as we read The Very Impatient Caterpillar. Explore the Cellcom Children's Edible Garden and make a caterpillar that will grow grass on its back when you bring it home!

On Wednesdays in the summer, enjoy "Summer in the City" with different performances each week at the Central Library at 10AM & 1:30PM. Shows take place in the auditorium. Shows are approximately 45 minutes. Seating is available on a first-arrival basis. For school-age kids ages 5 & up.

On Wednesdays in the summer, enjoy "Summer in the City" with different performances each week at the Central Library at 10AM & 1:30PM. Shows take place in the auditorium. Shows are approximately 45 minutes. Seating is available on a first-arrival basis. For school-age kids ages 5 & up.

Join us for storytime and meet Click Clack Duck from Doreen Cronin's popular picture books. Stay for a craft and drop-in activities that explore water and the animals that live there.

Storytime with Dads is BACK!! Join us for stories, songs and laughs led by a local dad with passion for fun! For ages 4-7.

On Wednesdays in the summer, enjoy "Summer in the City" with different performances each week at the Central Library at 10AM & 1:30PM. Shows take place in the auditorium. Shows are approximately 45 minutes. Seating is available on a first-arrival basis. For school-age kids ages 5 & up.

Join the silly cowpoke Cowboy Dusty and his pal Cowgirl Ginger for a rollicking storytime filled with skits, props and the fan-favorite: a shadow puppet production of "Let's Sing a Lullaby with the Brave Cowboy!" Stay after for some cowpoke craftin.

On Wednesdays in the summer, enjoy "Summer in the City" with different performances each week at the Central Library at 10AM & 1:30PM. Shows take place in the auditorium. Shows are approximately 45 minutes. Seating is available on a first-arrival basis. For school-age kids ages 5 & up.

Celebrate Kids' Day with a bang and a stomp! We'll read stories, make lots of noise and stomp some bubble wrap!

Midsummer Music will perform a children's concert in the Cellcom Children's Edible Garden. A string duo will pair their music with a themed storybook reading. Enjoy a story, some music and see what's growing in the garden!

Storytime with Dads is BACK!! Join us for stories, songs and laughs led by a local dad with passion for fun! For ages 4-7.

On Wednesdays in the summer, enjoy "Summer in the City" with different performances each week at the Central Library at 10AM & 1:30PM. Shows take place in the auditorium. Shows are approximately 45 minutes. Seating is available on a first-arrival basis. For school-age kids ages 5 & up.

During this interactive 45-min session, participants will join in listening to a story, and when the problem arises, become a story solver, engineering creative solutions. For grades 3-5.

Learn what pollination is, why it's important, and what you can do to help the animals that pollinate during this visit from the Neville Pulbic Museum. You'll be an expert when you visit the museum's Spectacular Science exhibit which features artifacts about these amazing animals.