In celebration of Earth Day, Librarian April is reading a non-fiction book about more environmental ways to create and tend your garden: Green Gardening and Composting by Molly Aloian. Learn about creative ways to start your garden, keep it free of bugs without using pesticides, and how compost is made. Watch this video below and read more books about green gardening from Hoopla.
It's storytime again!!! Enjoy another short storytime and sing along with Betsy, a Youth Services Librarian at EBPL. Today's story is Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. This picture book challenges you to find your favorite Mother Goose characters hidden in the pictures of the story - see if you can find them!.
It's storytime again!!! Enjoy another short storytime and sing along with Aaron, a Youth Services Librarian at EBPL. Today's story is Lucy Loves Sherman by Catherine Bailey and illustrated by Meg Walters. Watch this video below, check out this book using your library card on Hoopla, and see all of our storytime videos on our YouTube channel here.
Are you as sad about not having interactive programming as we are? Good news! In addition to all of the programming we've had these last few weeks, we now have a padlet to help us interact more with YOU! Participate in Lego club or try your hand at something you saw on a Maker Club video on YouTube? Use the padlet to post images or write about what you've been doing at home! Keep checking back here as we add more programs and padlets! Links to all our open padlets are below:
Have you ever wanted to learn how to design and print objects using a 3D printer? Now is the perfect time to learn. The library is launching a club for kids in grades 3-7 to do just that: the DICE Club! In the DICE Club, short for Design, Innovate, Create, Educate. In the DICE club, our amazing teen volunteer Aditya will teach children how to use the free online software Tinkercad to design their own 3D models that they can later print using the library's brand new 3D printer.
It's storytime again!!! Enjoy another short storytime and sing along with Aaron, a Youth Services Librarian at EBPL. Today's story is Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel by Adam Rubin and by Daniel Salmieri. Watch this video below, check out this book and the original Dragons Love Tacos using your library card on Hoopla, and see all of our storytime videos on our YouTube channel here.
It's storytime again!!! Enjoy another short storytime and sing along with Betsy, a Youth Services Librarian at EBPL. Today's story is Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion and illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham. Watch this video below and see all of our storytime videos on our YouTube channel here.
This simple origami crown can royalize your whole household! Click here to see the video.
The library may be closed, but we can still have Maker Club! Check out this Youtube video from librarian Dana on how to create comic book panels for your own comic books. Stay tuned, there are more Maker Club videos to come!
Click here to see the video and all the others on our EBPL Youtube channel.
Did you know April is National Poetry Month? Anyone can create a poem and after listening to Librarian April read some of her favorite poems about cats, why don't you try to write a few poems yourself? Here are some ideas to get started: