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Children's Room
• News & Updates •
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A StoryWalk® is a fun, educational experience for children – and adults – to enjoy reading and the outdoors at the same time. Take a walk along the trail and read and interact with the book as you go! | |
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2025 Tournament of Books begins March 1
Cary Library is pleased to partner with the Lexington Public Schools in our annual Picture Book Madness Tournament of Books! Who will be the ultimate picture book champion at Cary Library and how will it compare to the brackets at each of the schools? Stop by each week and cast your vote and see! Books will be available to read at the Library. Cary Library's winner will be announced on April 1st!
Round 1 voting: March 1 - March 10th
Elite 8: March 11 - March 17
Final 4: March 18 - March 24
Top 2: March 25 - March 31st
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• SCHOOL-AGE ACTIVITIES •
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Our School-Age Programs are designed to encourage a child's love of learning through exploration and play. If registration is required, please register each child individually and only register your child if they are in the grades advertised. | | |
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Registration opens March 17th for Spring Book Club Session
Do you love to read? Would you like to meet new friend and discuss interesting books? Join one of our book clubs!
Our book clubs meet in person at Omar's World of Comics (20 Waltham St) from 4:15 - 4:45 pm on the dates listed for each club. Please register only if you can attend all meetings.
Tadpoles (Grades 1 & 2): Wed 4/9, 4/23, 5/7, 5/21, & 6/4
Bookmarks (Grades 2 & 3): Tues 4/8, 4/22, 5/6, 5/20, & 6/3
Next Chapter (Grades 3 & 4): Wed 4/2, 4/16, 4/30, 5/14, & 5/28
Page Turners (Grades 4 & 5): Tues 4/1, 4/15, 4/29, 5/13, & 5/27
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How to Draw Pokémon!
with Pop Up Art School
Virtual
Available until 3/13
Registration Required
Learn how to draw your favorite Pokémon characters, including Pikachu! In a pre-recorded video, Pop Up Art School will guide you with step-by-step instructions using basic shapes, making it easy for all skills levels. Access to the video will be available until March 13 and you will receive the link upon registration.
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Fun at the Farm
Grades K - 2
Registration now open
Thursday, March 20
4:15 pm
**OFFSITE**
Join us at Lexington Community Farm (52 Lowell St) for an extra special storytime for older kids followed by a fun farm activity led by Lexington Community Farm's education staff!
This program is in partnership with Lexington Community Farm and is made possible thanks to a grant from the Cary Library Foundation.
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Kids Cooking Green presents Chocolate Coconut Tarts
Grades K-2
Registration opens 3/17
Thursday March 27
4:30 pm
**VIRTUAL**
Join our friends from Kids Cooking Green and learn how to make this delicious treat! We'll provide all the ingredients you need to cook.
This program is made possible thanks to a grant from the Cary Library Foundation.
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Kids Cooking Green presents Chocolate Coconut Tarts
Grades 3 - 5
Registration opens 3/24
Thursday April 3
4:30 pm
**VIRTUAL**
Join our friends from Kids Cooking Green and learn how to make this delicious treat! We'll provide all the ingredients you need to cook.
This program is made possible thanks to a grant from the Cary Library Foundation.
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2025 Eric Jordan Moskow Memorial Program
Flower Art
Grades 1 - 5
Registration opens 3/24
Friday, April 11
1:30 pm
**OFFSITE**
Violets and dandelions are everyone on the farm in April! We'll start with learning about the flowers and then have some fun making flower art!
This program is in partnership with Lexington Community Farm and is made possible thanks to a gift to the endowment of the Cary Memorial Library.
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Our goal with our pre-school age programs is to provide your child a rich and engaging time with music, movement, hands-on activities, appealing stories, all while working on building key early literacy skills. Our preschool programs are created around the developmental stages for the ages advertised. Most programs are drop in, unless otherwise indicated. | |
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Next session begins Tuesday March 4th!
Due to the town election, there will be no storytimes on Monday March 3rd.
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• Storytime Schedule •
Mondays:
10 am: Music Monday (ages 2 - 5)
11 am: Stay & Play (ages 2 - 5)
No programs March 3rd
Tuesday:
10 am: Laptime (prewalkers)
11 am: Toddler Time (walkers - 24 months)
Wednesday:
10 am: Dance Party (ages 2 - 5)
11 am: Stories & More (ages 2 - 5)
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Preschool Arts & Crafts
Ages 2 - 5
No registration required
Monday, March 24
2:30 - 3:30 pm
**OFFSITE**
Munroe Center for the Arts
Room 104 (lower level)
1403 Mass Ave
Drop in and explore, learn, and create art with us!
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Are you On the Road to Reading?
On the Road to Reading is an early literacy program designed to encourage parents and caregivers to read 1,000 books to their child before they start kindergarten to help develop important early literacy skills and develop a lifelong love of reading and books! Broken into 100 book milestones, the Library will celebrate your child’s reading achievements as you move along the Road to Reading!
Learn more and register today!
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Make 2025 a Year of Early Literacy!
Talk, sing, read, write, and play and more with your children each month with our monthly calendar of early literacy activities to do at home! Stop by the library to pick up a paper copy, or download a copy!
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What Our Book Clubs Are Reading | |
Tadpoles (1st and 2nd Grades) | | |
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Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute
by Jarrett Krosoczka
Book 1: Lunch Lady series
The school lunch lady is a secret crime fighter who uncovers an evil plot to replace all the popular teachers with robots.
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Rabbit's Bad Habits
by Julian Gough
Book 1: Rabbit and Bear series
Bear wakes up early from hibernation. If she can't sleep, then at least she can make a snowman. Rabbit has never made a snowman, but he definitely wants to make one that's better than Bear's. But with an avalanche and a hungry wolf heading his way, Rabbit soon realizes that it might be nice to have a friend on your side.
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Bookmarks (2nd & 3rd Grades) | | |
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To The Ice
by Thomas Tidholm
Ida, Max and Jack go to the creek one winter's day. They play on an ice floe then find themselves floating away-all the way to the polar ice, with just a box, a branch and some sandwiches. They find an old hut, meet penguins, see extraordinary things and, after testing their resources in this dramatic land of ice and snow, come home safe at the end of the day
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Felix Powell, Boy Dog
by Erin Entrada Kelley
Felix Powell can talk to animals. Just ask his dog, Mary Puppins! They talk all the time. When a mysterious, magical spell turns Felix into a dog, Mary Puppins is amazed. But not as much as Felix! Will his tail ever stop wagging? Will he ever see in full color again? How will he deal with Gumbo, the snobby neighborhood cat? Most importantly, will he ever return to being a regular boy?
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Page Turners (4th & 5th Grades)
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Safiyyah's War
by Hiba Noor Khan
Safiyyah loathes the brutal Nazi occupation of Paris, even though her Muslim identity keeps her safe--or, at least, safer than her Jewish neighbors. Safiyyah longs to fight back and hates feeling powerless to help her Jewish friends. Worse yet, her father--who taught her to always do the right thing--is acting strangely and doing nothing to help them either. Or is he? Unravelling the mystery of her father's odd behavior draws Safiyyah deep in the heart of the perilous underground resistance to the Nazis, where her bravery is put to the ultimate test.
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Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
by Pablo Cartaya
Marcus Vega is six feet tall, 180 pounds, and the owner of a premature mustache. When you look like this and you're only in the eighth grade, you're both a threat and a target. After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mom decides it's time for a change of environment. She takes Marcus and his younger brother to Puerto Rico to spend a week with relatives they don't remember or have never met. But Marcus can't focus knowing that his father--who walked out of their lives ten years ago--is somewhere on the island. So begins Marcus's incredible journey, a series of misadventures that take him all over Puerto Rico in search of his elusive namesake.
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Don't forget to check out the booklists on our Recommendations page! | | |
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The Night Market by Seina Wedlick
Follow a young girl as she explores a Nigerian night market. There is so much to see, and the atmosphere is magical. How will she decide to spend her golden coins? Readers will be pulled into this immersive experience by the dreamy illustrations. This picture book also includes author’s and illustrator’s notes about the background of night markets in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan
Moving is hard but moving to a new country is harder especially when you leave a brother behind and don’t have enough of the language to speak with family and make your way around the city. Ruth Chan’s family moved from Toronto, Canada to Hong Kong when she was 13 leaving her brother behind in boarding school. It was moving home for her parents especially as her mother’s family were all close by but for Ruth it was a new culture, language - two, actually, as she attended the German International School and new friends. She felt alone and awkward even more than your average 13 year old. But with courage, perseverance and patience learned through the stories told by her father, she thrived as her parents knew she would.
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News from the Friends of Cary Library | |
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The Friends of Cary Library say THANK YOU!
Your ongoing support....
- Friends memberships
- Book, CD, and DVD donations
- Purchases from the Friends store
.... help us fund a variety of programs that keep Cary Library a gem in our community!
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