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The library offers early literacy classes and programs including preschool, baby and me in the park, music and movement in the park, storywalk in the park, and 1,000 books before kindergarten. See the library events calendar for their scheduled days and times.
2) Big friends
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Etho and Birt love going up Sudden Hill and sitting in simple cardboard boxes imagining they are kings, soldiers, astronauts, or pirates until Shu asks to join them, and their "two-by-two rhythm" is disturbed.
3) A hop is up
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Walking with his energetic puppy in their neighborhood, a young boy hops, bends, spins, and jumps with friends he encounters along the way.
5) Salad pie
Author
Publisher
Ripple Grove Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"There is nothing sweeter than arriving at the playground, seeing it empty, and knowing you have it all to yourself-the silent comfort of playing alone. Maggie is overjoyed to have that solitude to make her Salad Pie. But then Herbert saunters over and wants to play too. "I'm making salad. Salad Pie. And don't you touch it!" Herbert just wants to help, even though Maggie makes it clear she won't let him.Then her imaginary pie takes a spill, and she...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In our always-on, productivity-addicted lifestyles, we tend to think of the pursuit of fun as being indulgent, even immature and childish. When we do find the time to relax or care for ourselves, we tend to turn to activities that are not actually restorative: binging Netflix, scrolling through Twitter, or indulging our FOMO on Instagram. Through years of research, journalist Catherine Price has learned the truth: far from being frivolous or a distraction,...
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Brown has spent his career studying animal behavior and conducting more than six-thousand "play histories" of humans from all walks of life-from serial murderers to Nobel Prize winners. Backed by the latest research, Play explains why play is essential to our social skills, adaptability, intelligence, creativity, ability to problem solve and more. Particularly in tough times, we need to play more than ever, as it's the very means by which we...
11) Nothing to do
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Celebrates many ways of enjoying a day when the calendar is blank--no homework, no soccer practice, no anything--from building a fort to lying down and watching the clouds change shape.
14) Hokey Pokey
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Ever since they were Snotsippers, Jack and the girl have fought, until one day she steals his bike and as he and the Amigos try to recover it, Jack realizes that he is growing up and must eventually leave the "goodlands and badlands of Hokey Pokey."
15) Unstoppable me
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A boy runs, jumps, and soars through his day, stopping briefly to refuel before zipping and zooming back to his fun, in a book that celebrates the seemingly boundless energy of children.
18) Wild beings
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A celebration of the way animals and children live wild and free in the world"--
19) Dig in!
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A little boy digs, plays, and explores in his garden.
20) Rainstorm
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In this wordless picture book, a boy finds a mysterious key which leads him on an adventure one rainy day.
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