Eco-Tots- Crafts & Stories at Greenwich Point

Eco-Tots

Winter at the Beach with Mommy & Me

For Children Ages 2-4

 

Join your child and discover the beauty of nature at the Seaside Center at Tod’s Point! Share in the experience of learning and make memories with your child. Spend one hour learning about the creatures of Long Island Sound, making a craft to take home and listening to a nature story. Each program meets weekly for one hour. Child must be accompanied by parent or caregiver.

 

Wednesdays

9:30—10:30 AM

January 11th, January 18th, January 25th, and February 1st, 2012

Location: Floren Family Environmental Center, Innis Arden Cottage at Greenwich Point

$60 per child

For more information, or to register, call: 203-406-3312 or e-mail alisha@soundwaters.org.

Golden Y Award Winners, Winter 2011

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the Semi-Annual Young Young Critics' Club (Y2C2) Jeopardy Tournament!

The winning team, Team Anonymous (L-R): Ajax, Emma, Stephanie, Kate, and Edward 

They are the current holders of the coveted Wonderful Golden "Y" Award! The winners have demonstrated their mastery of trivia questions related to the books that the Club has read during the past year. (Yes, it looks like a lobster, but trust us, it’s also a wonderful golden ‘Y’-- stop by the Youth Services Department and see for yourself!)

Youth Services Staff Picks: Yearly Round-Up

Hey! Did you know that Youth Services makes a monthly list of recommendations? We pick a new, timely theme each month, and then pick our favorites! We have lots of lists from you to choose from. Here's a look back at all of our picks from 2011:

• January 2011: Easy Reader Favorites
• February 2011: Our Favorite 2010 Award-Winners
• March 2011: Books About Baseball
• April 2011: Books About Princes and Princesses
• May 2011: Books About Birds 
• June 2011: Mystery and Detective Stories 
• July 2011: Stories About Camp
• August 2011: Stories About Africa 
• September 2011: Stories About School 
• October 2011: Stories About Farms
• November 2011: Stories About Colonial America 
• December 2011: Holiday Stories

Have a suggestion for a topic you'd like us to cover? Comment on this post!

Children's Program Registration Is Going on Now!

Registration for Youth Services' Winter/Spring 2012 Program Session is going on now through Sunday, January 8th, 2012. [View the winter program schedule]

• Our program registration is by lottery
• You must have an active library card in good standing to register
• Obtain a registration postcard for the program(s) of your choice from the Youth Services Circulation Desk
• Fill out ALL of the required information. Incomplete applications will not be considered
• Address the reverse of the card to yourself
• Affix a first-class stamp (44¢)
• Drop off your card at the Youth Services Desk by January 8th
• Registration cards will be mailed back to you within a week of the close of registration

Questions? Please give us a call at 203-637-8802, or comment on this post.

Youth Services' Holiday Gift-Buying Guide 2011

Each year our Youth Services Librarian and young readers put together a list of recommended books to buy for holiday gifts. Our list features picture books, books for beginning readers, books for middle graders, and books for ages 12 and up.

View the list online, or pick up a paper copy at the Youth Services Desk.

Perrot Presents The Grace Notes on Dec. 3

Perrot Memorial Library is pleased to host a musical performance of carols by the Grace Notes in the Radcliffe Children's Wing on Saturday, December 3rd, 2011, from 3:30 PM-4:30 PM.

The Grace Notes, a women's a cappella group, has been dedicated to providing music to our community for more than 40 years. The free performance will be followed by A Stroll Among the Luminaries in Binney Park at 4:30 PM. The Luminaries is a project of Boy Scout Troop 11 with Family Centers of Greenwich, and will feature a brilliant candlelight display throughout the Park. 

The Old Greenwich First Light Festival, sponsored by the Old Greenwich Merchants' Association, follows later that evening. The festival transforms Old Greenwich into a winter wonderland, decked out in its finest holiday trimmings! Other attractions will include horse-drawn carriage rides, activities and food hosted in the local shops, and of course, a visit from Santa Claus himself. Bring the whole family!

Hugo, the Movie Adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Opens Soon!

Hugo, the film adaptation of Brian Selznick's award-winning book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, opens in theaters on Wednesday, November 23rd. Be sure to read the book before you see the movie! Hugo was directed by Martin Scorsese, and stars Asa Butterfield as Hugo, along with Chloë Grace Moretz, Jude Law, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Ben Kingsley.

You can read more about the movie at Publishers Weekly, and view the trailer on the movie's website. You can also view some video clips of Brian Selznick talking about the book when he visited Perrot's book clubs in 2007.

Changes in the Watt (Media) Room

The Library has had many requests for Blu-rays, and, as a result, our Blu-ray collection has grown. Please note the following: All children's Blu-ray movies will now be located with the regular children's DVDs and all non-fiction Blu-rays will now be located with the regular non-fiction DVD collection.

NEW Museum Pass- The Bruce Museum

Now available to borrow from the Youth Services Desk-- two museum passes for the Bruce Museum, right here in Greenwich! You may borrow a pass for 3 days, and it entitles you to free admission for up to 2 adults and 2 children under the age of 18.

Consistently voted the "Best Museum" by area media, the Bruce Museum is a regionally based, world-class institution highlighting art, science and natural history in more than a dozen changing exhibitions annually. The permanent galleries feature the natural sciences encompassing regional to global perspectives.


More information at: http://www.brucemuseum.org/

[See a list of all the museum passes you can borrow from Perrot]

Family Program at the Greenwich Historical Society

Greenwich Historical Society Family Program

How Do You Know a Hero?

Paper Crafts Workshop with Timothy Bellavia

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

Kids of all ages will enjoy this paper crafts workshop led by award-winning children's author, illustrator and educator Timothy D. Bellavia. How Do You Know a Hero? will challenge boys and girls to design their very own action figures by transforming plain templates into police officers, firefighters and paramedics. Kids can deck out their heroes with uniforms, badges and other pintsized accoutrements replicated from objects and photos showcased in the Historical Society’s current exhibition, Everyday Heroes: Greenwich First Responders. They’ll then set their creations’ heroic feats against scenes from the exhibition. The How Do You Know a Hero? workshop was designed to promote understanding of the importantrole first responders play in daily life. This workshop is a new spin on Bellavia’s well known franchise We Are All The Same Inside® workshop in which children create individual characters with the goal of learning to recognize our common humanity while embracing diversity.

Workshops will be held at 1:00, 2:30 and 4:00 PM

Vanderbilt Education Center, 39 Strickland Road, Cos Cob, CT

$10 for members; $15 for nonmembers.

Reservations required: http://www.greenwichhistory.org/children.php

For additional information, please call 203-869-6899, Ext. 10.

Upcoming Event: Our Old Stones, A Talk with Andrew Pighills

Our Old Stones: A Talk with Andrew Pighills
Monday, November 7th, 2011, at 7:30 PM
Radcliffe Children's Wing, Perrot Memorial Library

Andrew Pighills, an accomplished stone artisan, gardener, and horticulturalist, will give a talk on old stone walls, accompanied by photographs of walls in and around Greenwich. Mr. Pighills received his formal horticulture training with The Royal Horticultural Society. He has spent 31 years creating gardens and building dry stone walls in his native England, in and around the spectacular Yorkshire Dales and the English Lake District.

Dreaming of Chanel- A Talk with Charlotte Smith

Dreaming of Chanel: A Wardrobe Full of Stories- A Talk with Charlotte Smith
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011, 7:30 PM
Radcliffe Children's Wing, Perrot Memorial Library

The Chanel suit: it is one of the 20th century's most iconic garments. Seen by many as the epitome of style, its classic silhouette is instantly recognizable, and yet owning one is, for most women, only a dream.

Author and curator Charlotte Smith will return to Perrot to discuss her latest book, Dreaming of Chanel, which reveals the backdrop and dreams attached to pieces of clothing, whether they are made by famous designers or unknown dressmakers. She chronicles the lives and times of the wearers, and what evolves is a fascinating history of style and couture throughout the ages. Ms. Smith is the curator of the Darnell Collection, Australia's largest private collection of over 3,000 items of vintage clothing and accessories, which she inherited from her American godmother, Doris Darnell. Ms. Smith will enhance her stories with examples of some of the fabulous pieces from the collection.

Elimination of Mailed Overdue Notices

Due to rising costs, Perrot and Greenwich Libraries have stopped mailing paper overdue notices, effective October 1st.

 

Currently, patrons with email addresses in their library card records receive courtesy notices (reminders of when books are due), notices of holds that are ready to be picked up, as well as overdue notices by email. We will continue to send out all of these notices. 

 

If you do not have an email address in your library card record, you will no longer receive overdue notices by mail.

 

If you would like to add an email address to your library account, please let us know at your next visit and we will be happy to assist you.

 

You can also add an email address by accessing your account from home. Log in to your account with your name and library card number, click Submit, and then click on the Modify Personal Info button. At this point you can either add or change your email address. When you are done, click Submit.

 

If you have any questions or concerns about this new policy, please comment on this post, or give us a call at 203-637-1066.

 

New Book Recommendations from the Reference Desk

What We're Reading at Perrot- New Book Recommendations from Our Reference Desk

BOTTOM OF THE 33RD: HOPE AND REDEMPTION IN BASEBALL'S LONGEST GAME, BY DAN BARRY

[Non-Fiction] "Getcha Beer heah!" For baseball’s longest game ever played, one would need more than just a beer. On April 18, 1981, Holy Saturday, just after dusk, the game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings was underway. It played on and on into the night. What a good look into the lives of many people: umps, players, bat boys who carried on with the integrity of the game in the forefront. Enjoy this wonderful baseball book as our own baseball season is almost ending. Once reviewer writes: "…a pitch-perfect and seamless meditation on baseball and the human condition."

Read the rest of our list of recommendations!

Library E-Books Now Available on Your Kindle

You can now access free library e-books via your Kindle device!

“Libraries are a critical part of our communities,” Jay Marine, director of Kindle at Amazon, said in a statement. “And we’re excited to be making Kindle books available at more than 11,000 local libraries around the country.”  Read more at the New York Times.

The Greenwich Library System Overdrive downloadable eBook collection features over 8,000 titles that are compatible with the Kindle. Choose from a wide selection of fiction, nonfiction and children's titles, with more to come.