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Children's Room
• News & Updates •
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• SPECIAL JANUARY EVENTS •
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Kids Cooking Green presents Minestrone Soup
Grades 3 - 5
Virtual
Registration Required
Friday, January 7th
3:30 pm
Join our friends from Kids Cooking Green and learn how to make this vegetarian soup with pasta and veggies. Perfect for a cold winter day! We'll provide all the ingredients required.
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Kids Cooking Green presents Pear & Squash Soup
Grades K - 2
Virtual
Registration Required
Friday, January 14th
3:30 pm
Come join our friends from Kids Cooking Green and learn how to make this yummy winter soup that uses season fruits and veggies! We'll provide all the ingredients required.
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Kids Cooking Green presents Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Grades 3 - 5
Virtual
Registration Required
Friday, January 21st
2:30 pm
Chocolate peppermint cookies are fun to make, pretty to look at, and delicious to eat! Join our friends from Kids Cooking Green and learn how to make these delicious treats to put a little sparkle in your winter menu. We'll provide all the ingredients necessary.
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• Preschool Activities •
Our next storytime session begins Tuesday, January 18th! Registration is required! Registration for all storytimes will begin on Monday, January 3rd at 7 pm.
We are currently planning to host storytimes indoors, in person as well as virtually for those who do not yet wish to attend indoor in-person activities. However, we may need to adjust our plans over the coming weeks, so please keep an eye on our social media for any service updates. Registration will be required to attend, whether you are attending in person or virtually, and everyone attending will need to register as we will have a maximum capacity in the room. Masks will be required for all attendees over the age of 2 years.
Tuesdays:
10:15 am: Storytime Junior (ages 0 - 2) weekly, In person or virtual. Once registered, you are registered for all dates in the session (1/18, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, and 2/15) Register
Wednesday:
10:15 am
Dance Party (ages 2 - 5), In person only. Once registered, you are registered for all dates in the session (1/19, 2/2, 2/16, and 3/2) Register
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Singalong (ages 2-5) In person or virtual. Once registered, you are registered for all dates in the session (1/26, 2/9, 2/23 and 3/9) Register
Thursday:
10:15 am: Preschool Storytime (ages 3 - 5) weekly, in person or virtual. Once registered, you are registered for all dates in the session (1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, and 2/17) Register
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Families are welcome to bring children of any age to our storytimes, ages indicate the developmental age for which the storytime was designed, but all children are welcome. |
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What Our Book Clubs Are Reading |
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Tadpoles (1st & 2nd Grades) |
Book 1 of Astrid and Apollo series
Astrid is anxious about her family's camping trip because she is afraid of the dark (and bears), but her twin Apollo is looking forward to the experience; and Astrid is doing okay, despite the bugs and the dark, until she hears the scratching outside the family's tent--but Astrid is determined not to let her father face the threat alone.
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Book 1 of Time Jumpers series
At the flea market nine-and-a-half-year-old Chase and his younger sister Ava acquire an old suitcase filled with rows of carefully packed strange objects, and when they handle one of the objects (a dragon-headed doorknob) they find themselves in King Arthur's castle, on a mission to save the King--and pursued by a strange man whom they first saw at the flea market, who is after their suitcase
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Bookmarks (2nd & 3rd Grades) |
Book 1 of Cat & Cat Adventures
One day when their human leaves for work, Squash and Ginny find themselves in the most unfortunate predicament: without snacks. With a little help from a magical portal, the two cats embark on a quest to find ingredients for a potion that will produce unlimited goodies. At first, their mission doesn't seem so tough. It takes them on a boat race across Mewmaid Ocean and a hot air balloon ride over Mount Lava. But when the cats reach the Enchanted Rain Forest to gather enchanted rainwater, the last item on their list, their mission runs dry . . . It turns out it hasn't rained in the Enchanted Rain Forest in weeks! What a cat-astrophe! Can Squash and Ginny get to the bottom of what's causing this dry spell and secure the final ingredient they need? Or have Squash and Ginny taken their last bite . . . for good?
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Book 1 of The Magic Tree House series
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
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Next Chapter (3rd & 4th Grades)
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Book 1 of Mighty Jack series
Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. But then, one day at the flea market, Maddy does talk -- to tell Jack to trade their mom's car for a box of mysterious seeds. It's the best mistake Jack has ever made. What starts as a normal little garden out back behind the house quickly grows up into a wild, magical jungle with tiny onion babies running amok, huge, pink pumpkins that bite, and, on one moonlit night that changes everything... a dragon.
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Book 1 of Skunk and Badger series
The last thing Badger wants is a roommate, and certainly not Skunk, but since the house does not belong to him he does not have a choice; and soon everything in Badger's quiet and ordered life studying rocks is turned upside down (and where on earth did all the chickens come from)--but after he drives Skunk and his chickens away, Badger starts to miss his roommate and sets out to find him and make amends.
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Page Turners (4th & 5th Grades)
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A twelve-year-old girl discovers her father is the keeper of the gateway between our world and The Dark, and when he goes missing she'll need to unlock her own powers and fight a horde of spooky creatures set on starting a war.
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When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.
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ComicSquad (3rd - 4th Grades) |
Most children think twice before braving a haunted wood filled with terrifying beasties to match wits with a witch, but not Masha. Her beloved grandma taught her many things: that stories are useful, that magic is fickle, that nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean. The fearsome witch of folklore needs an assistant, and Masha needs an adventure. She may be clever enough to enter Baba Yaga's house-on-chicken-legs, but within its walls, deceit is the rule. To earn her place, Masha must pass a series of tests, outfox a territorial bear, and make dinner for her host. No easy task, with children on the menu!"
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Book 1 of Dam Keepers series
Life in Sunrise Valley is tranquil, but beyond its borders lies certain death. A dangerous black fog looms outside the village, but its inhabitants are kept safe by an ingenious machine known as the dam. Pig's father built the dam and taught him how to maintain it. And then this brilliant inventor did the unthinkable: he walked into the fog and was never seen again. Now Pig is the dam keeper. Except for his best friend, Fox, and the town bully, Hippo, few are aware of his tireless efforts. But a new threat is on the horizon--a tidal wave of black fog is descending on Sunrise Valley. Now Pig, Fox, and Hippo must face the greatest danger imaginable: the world on the other side of the dam.
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Book Talks (4th - 6th Grades) |
This Thai-inspired twist on Hugo's Les Misérables follows Pong, who escapes prison hoping to find a fairer world, and Nok, who pursues him through a world that makes her question every truth she holds dear.
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An informative and fun book of collective nouns for animals. Each group name is centered on a page with an illustration of a group of animals on the opposite page. For example, the 2 page layout of the collective for skunks which is a stench, by the way is followed by a full 2 page illustration of said stench of skunks whooping it up in a locker room. The party of Jays includes cake, punch, gifts and hats as well as a band. The family of Sardines is visualized in a wall of family photos. The imagery cements the learning in this one.
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Joy wants to be a film composer when she gets older - but to do that, she has to keep taking piano lessons. Unfortunately, Joy's father has lost his job and not only has her family been forced to sell their home and move into small apartment, but piano lessons are also on the list of things that Joy also has to give up. Joy's parents are fighting more, she has no space from her younger sister, and she has to start over a new school where she has no friends. Thankfully, Joy meets Nora who introduces her to new friends and to "The Hideout" - a secret place in her apartment building known only by the kids which they use as a place to escape and take a break. The pair also start a business so Joy can earn money to pay for her own piano lessons. Things start to look up, until a series of mistakes and miscommunications send it all to pieces again. If Joy wants to set things right, she has to learn some challenging lessons about accountability and being honest about her feelings.
This is a lovely story about the trials of growing up that will appeal to a readers who like realistic, honest stories about growing up, making mistakes, and doing your best to set things right again.
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What is Braille?
Braille is a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number (including musical, mathematical, and scientific symbols). Invented by Louis Braille in the 19th century, Braille is used by blind and partially sighted people to read the same books and periodicals as those in print in a visual font.
Cary Library has a limited collection of Braille resources available in the Children's Room, ask at the desk for assistance if you would try reading a Braille book yourself!
If you or someone you know could benefit from access to resources in Braille, The Perkins Library is a local resource which provides free access to qualified participants. |
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Did you know that January 4th is World Braille Day? Part of Braille Literacy Month and celebrated since 2019, World Braille Day recognizes the importance of Braille as a means of communication for blind and partially sighted people.
Books About Louis Braille:
Books with Braille:
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