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CHECK OUT THE CALENDAR FOR SUMMER EVENTS IN THE CHILDREN'S ROOM STORY HOUR
The Newbury Town Library currently offers a very popular story hour program for 70 pre-school children. There are 40 slots for children ages 2 and 3 and their caregivers. Siblings may attend these sessions as well. There are 30 slots for children ages 4 and 5. Story hours are held 4 days each week as follows:
MONDAY at 4 p.m. for 4 and 5 year-olds.
TUESDAY OR THURSDAY at 10:30 a.m. for 2 and 3 year-olds (with caregiver).
WEDNESDAY at 1:00 p.m. for 2 and 3 year-olds (with caregiver).
?We read stories in the program room, enjoy a large motor skill activity in the meeting room and then return to the program room to create a theme-related craft.
If Triton Regional Schools cancels programs due to inclement weather Story Hour programs will be cancelled as well.
Call the library for further information.
General Information
The Children's Room at the Newbury Town Library supports events that introduce literature into young patron's lives in an entertaining and education format. Story Hour programs will be offered for all age levels. The new library houses a program room designed for these events.
Elementary school students are invited to tap into the extensive children's room reference collection. Four internet accessible computers will be available in the children's room for student's use.
Children at every reading level can easily find an appropriate reading selection. Picture books, easy readers, and early chapter books are marked for easy recognition. The juvenile fiction collection continues to grow and includes many popular children's book series. Classic Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy mysteries as well as newer adventure tales such as John Sciezka's Time Warp Trio and Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House books are included in the collection.
Entertaining and educational videos and compact disks are also available in the children's room. A growing selection of puppets, including Clifford the Dog, Franklin the Turtle and Madeline, is waiting for young patrons to bring them home for a two week period.
Some of the Newbury Town Library's informative and humorous parenting books are also located in the children's room.
Laurie Collins, Ruthie True and Ellen Aldenof the children's room staff are eager to help with book selection and research projects for the library's youngest patrons and their parents.
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