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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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Lincoln Park
New title for May and June!
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Parker Meadow
Current Title:
New title coming in June!
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Block Party
No registration required
Tuesday, May 2 at 7 pm
Drop in and build with our LEGO® bricks! Bring your Mom, your Grandpa, your friend, your cousin, and see what you can create.
Not recommended for children under age 2. Children under age 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this program7
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Margaret Moody Puppets presents Badger Meets the Fairies Puppet Show
Friday, May 19 at 3:30 pm
Mr. Badger is thrilled to meet Blossom, a flower fairy, in the garden. He flies away with her to help the fairies build a playground. But then it’s complicated: the fairies won’t use cement; and Mr. Badger wants to learn to fly. Join Margaret Moody, puppeteer, and Peter Lehman on mandolin for a gentle tale based on European fairy lore.
This program is made possible thanks to a grant from the Cary Library Foundation.
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• SCHOOL-AGE ACTIVITIES •
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On-Your-Own
Story Club
Grades K & 1
Thursdays: 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, 5/25, 6/1, 6/8
When you sign up, you are registered for the entire session
4:15 pm
For Kindergartners and 1st graders who are ready for longer stories, poetry, and some discussion.
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Multicultural Songs, Stories & Crafts
Grades K-2
Thursday, May 11
6:30 pm
Join journalist, author, and education advocate Helen Ji Li for an evening of multicultural stories, songs, and crafts celebrating AAPI heritage.
This program is sponsored by a grant from the Cary Library Foundation.
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Go Green! Sustainability Workshop
Grades 4 - 6
Thursday, May 18
4 pm
Join the Town of Lexington’s Sustainable Youth Group for a fun exploration of sustainability! Through building challenges, Kahoot games, and more, you will learn about sustainability in an interesting and informative way. Whether you know a lot or a little about this important topic, there is something for you! GO GREEN your way with different stations and activities.
This program is part of Cary Teens Lead the Way, a program designed to highlight the interests and talents of Lexington's teens.
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Kids Cooking Green presents Pasta Primavera
Grades K -2
Friday May 19
2 pm
Join our friends from Kids Cooking Green to make this delicious tricolored pasta salad with nut free pesto and spring veggies!
This program is sponsored by a grant from the Cary Library Foundation.
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Multicultural Songs, Stories & Crafts
Grades 3 - 5
Thursday, May 25
6:30 pm
Join journalist, author, and education advocate Helen Ji Li for an evening of multicultural stories, songs, and crafts celebrating AAPI heritage.
This program is sponsored by a grant from the Cary Library Foundation.
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Brickbuilders' Activity Challenge
Grades 3 - 5
Friday, May 26
3 pm
Will you take the Brickbuilders’ Challenge? Meet other kids who love LEGO® and work together in pairs or small groups to take on a challenge.
LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this program
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Dance Party
Ages 2 - 5
No registration required
Wednesdays
10 am
Come dance with us! Grown ups will dance too!
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Preschool Arts & Crafts
Ages 3-5
No registration required
Monday May 8
2:15 - 2:45 pm
Drop in and explore, learn and create art!
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Story Social
Ages 0-5
No registration required
Saturday May 13
9:30 am
Join us for a short storytime and some time to make new friends!
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Sensory Play
Ages 0 - 5
No registration required
Friday May 26
10:30 am
Drop in and have fun with our interactive sensory stations.
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Next session begins
Monday May 1st
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• Storytime Schedule •
Mondays:
10:30 am: Music Monday (ages 2 - 5)
No Music Monday 5/8 or 5/29
Tuesday:
9:30 am: Laptime (prewalkers)
10:15 am: Toddler Time
(walkers - age 2)
Wednesday:
10:45 am: Stories & More (ages 2-5)
Thursday:
10:15 am: Preschool Storytime
(ages 3 - 5)
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What Our Book Clubs Are Reading |
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Tadpoles (K and 1st Grades) |
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by Paula Harrison
Book 1: Kitty series
Kitty wants to be a superhero like her mother, once she gets over her fear of the dark, but when Figaro the cat needs help she springs into action.
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by Nancy Krulik
Book 1: The Kid from Planet Z series
When Zeke Zander's spaceship crashes on Earth, he and his family must pretend to be humans until they can fix the ship and return home to Planet Z. But with antennae on their heads and a talking cat named Zeus, fitting in is easier said than done!
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Bookmarks (2nd & 3rd Grades) |
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by Laura James
Book 1: Fabio the World's Greatest Flamingo Detective series
Flamingo detective Fabio and his giraffe associate, Gilbert, investigate when a singing hippopotamus disappears during auditions for a talent show being staged to save the failing Hotel Royale.
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by Saadia Faruqi
Book 1: Marya Khan series
With her eighth birthday coming up, Marya claims she is having an epic henna party, so now she must convince her family to make it happen and work to pull it off, but everything Marya does seems to end in disaster.
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by Tony DiTerlizzi
Book 1: Spiderwick Chronicles series
When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.
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Next Chapter (3rd & 4th Grades) |
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by Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Boya Sun and Matt Rockefeller
Book 1: 5 Worlds series
Five imperiled worlds will be rendered extinct unless five ancient and mysterious beacons can be lit in the wake of erupting wars during which three unlikely heroes make surprising discoveries about their homes and themselves.
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by Chris Grabenstein
Book 1: Mr Lemoncello's Library series
Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape.
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Page Turners (4th & 5th Grades)
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by Xiran Jay Zhao
Book 1: Zachary Ying series
After his augmented reality gaming headset is possessed by the spirit of the First Emperor of China, twelve-year-old Chinese American Zack Ying is compelled to travel across China to steal an ancient artifact, fight figures from Chinese history and myth, and seal a portal to prevent malicious spirits from destroying the human realm.
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by Jasmine Warga
Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.
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Book Talks (4th - 6th Grades) |
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
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Esmé Shapiro is quickly becoming one of my new favorite creators. Her illustrations are strange and wonderful to look at. In My Self, Your Self, she gently ushers the reader through some light existential ponderings into a celebration of loving one’s Self and the loving relationships between a sprout, a mushroom, a snail, and other garden creatures.
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Breda Moriarty lives with her undocumented mother in Chicago. Feeling neglected by her busy mother as she builds her business, Breda acts out and is sent to stay with her grandfather, a farmer and seanchaí, near Inch Strand on the southwest coast of Ireland. Over her time there she grows to finally understand the unspoken history of her family. In a well written engrossing story, Jessie Ann Foley, touches on some of the more painful episodes in modern Irish history and demonstrates a true understanding of the culture of Ireland and West Kerry.
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News from the Friends of Cary Library |
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Spring Book Sale
May 5 – 7
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Come see all the quality used books we have for kids of every age and reading level! We hope to see you there!! |
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Member Hours (join at the door):
Friday, May 5: 1pm – 5pm
Saturday, May: 6 9am – 10am
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General Public Hours:
Saturday, May 6: 10am – 5pm
Sunday, May 7: 1pm – 5pm
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