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The Children's Room offers reading materials at every level: from picture books to easy readers to chapter books. We have puppets, puzzles, graphic novels, movies and themed literature kits. All you need to learn more about the world around you is in our nonfiction section. Come explore today!

​3rd Annual Halloween Costume Swap at the Plainville Library
Saturday, October 6
Let us help make Halloween a little more fun and a little less stressful! Just drop in the library on Saturday, October 6th with the costume(s) you want to trade and you can go home with some new-to-you costumes you want to use! Our only rule is that this is a 1 for 1 trade - you can bring in any theme and size and go home with whatever you need. Have an infant boy costume but need something for a teenage girl? No problem, all that matters is that you have one to trade - 1 for 1 is the only rule! We have a large collection of costumes already on hand, we take donations all the time, plus we will add whatever new costumes come in that day. There will be some other Halloween fun happening in the Children's room too, so please stop in and see what we have to offer!
Drop in from 10:30 am - 1:30 pm

Programs!

Neptune the Reading Therapy Dog


Neptune will be back to visit us again Wednesday, from 4-5 pm, on October 3rd. Come on in and practice your reading, Neptune loves a good story!

Neptune is a beautiful Shiloh Shepherd with the sweetest disposition. Usually he visits the first Wednesday of every month  from 4-5 pm. Many children like to read to him as he always has a patient ear but he is also great to visit with if you want your child to feel more comfortable around dogs. ​

All children can benefit from reading to dogs - read the research here:  https://www.ucdavis.edu/spotlight/0410/reading_to_rover.html

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Ongoing Storytimes...
               Infant and Toddler Story Time – for ages 0-2 – Monday afternoons at 1:30 pm and Tuesday mornings at 10:30 am. We are celebrating Mother Goose by reading, retelling and dancing to the rhymes! Dates in October are: 1, 2, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29 and 30.
                Preschool Story Time – for ages 3-5 – Monday mornings at 10:30 am and Tuesday afternoons at 1:30 pm. We will explore weekly themes though picture books with music and movements, perhaps some poems and finger plays too. There will also be an activity or game to enrich our exploration of the theme. Dates in June are: 1, 2, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29 and 30.
                All story times are open to everyone who would like to attend and, although I have geared the story times to specific ages, no one will ever be excluded from attending. My expectations have been, and always will be, that everyone participates as they want and we have fun together.
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Lego Club for ages 5 and up
Meet up with some friends to build with the library Legos and we will display your creations. The Club meets the second Saturday and Monday of each month, dates for fall  meetings are:
Saturday: October 13 - from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Monday, October 15 - from 6:00 - 7:30 pm

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Family Phonic Fun Night
The third Wednesday of every month is Family Phonics Fun Night from 6:00 - 7:00 pm. We have different games for different reading abilities - for real early readers you can go on a letter hunt in the library or, for those advanced readers, you can play a game of Scrabble Jr together. It's a night for some drop in family fun aimed at helping build reading proficiency. Our next Phonics night is Wednesday, October 17.
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Family Card Game Night
On the second Wednesday from 6:00 - 7:00 pm we play some card games here in the children's room. The idea of these games is that all they require is a deck of cards - no paper and pencil to keep score! We will play games like Old Maid, Crazy Eights, Snap and Garbage. These games should be fun for people of all ages and easy to learn and play together. Drop in the library and see what game we will be practicing each month!