Spaces still available for Stuff & Nonsense and Spotlight programs for summer

 Spaces are still available in our Stuff & Nonsense and Spotlight programs for summer! Call to sign up: 203-637-8802.

***Stuff & Nonsense: For kids entering Grades 1 and 2***

Mondays at 4 PM on July 12th, July 19th, July 26th, and August 2nd.

A program of exciting stories-- plus a craft kit to take home! Program will be held in the Youth Services Garden under an awning. Program will be held rain or shine-- if severe weather is predicted, please call the library for info. Please bring a small blanket or a towel for your child to sit on. Caregiver must remain in department during program.

***Spotlight: For kids entering Grades 3 and 4***

Wednesdays at 4 PM on July 7th, July 14th, July 21st, and July 28th

Non-Fiction books and stories-- plus a craft kit to take home! The theme of this program changes each session. This Summer's theme is Tails & Tales. Program will be held in the Youth Services Garden under an awning. Program will be held rain or shine-- if severe weather is predicted, please call the library for info. Please bring a small blanket or a towel for your child to sit on. Caregiver must remain in department during program.

Perrot Summer Reading for Adults 2021- Reconnect Through Reading @ Perrot

 

This summer, we invite you to indulge your love of reading while helping to support local businesses by joining in our Adult Summer Reading 2021 Program: Reconnect Through Reading @ Perrot. The program is going on NOW through Labor Day, Monday, September 6th. You can read/listen to anything you want: books, e-books, e-audio books, books on CD, graphic novels, nonfiction, etc.

​To participate, simply fill out a bookmark entry for each title you read, or log your books online using READsquared. Once you make an account with READsquared, you can log the books you read and even review them (optional). (If you signed up for a Perrot READSquared account last year, you may reuse your old login information.) Bookmark entries will be circulated with all books and will be available at our public service desks. Fill out the entry form on the back of the bookmark and return it with your books, or drop it in our Book Drop.

Every Friday for ten weeks, we'll randomly select two winners who will each receive a $25 gift card to a local business. If you've submitted at least one bookmark or logged one title online during the week, you'll be eligible to win. Winners will be pulled and announced on our web site and social media outlets on Friday afternoons. If you win, we will contact you via email. You can come in to the Library to pick up your prize, or have it mailed to you.

A Grand Prize winner will be randomly selected on Tuesday, September 7th. The Grand Prize will be a $100 gift card to a local business. Winners of the $25 gift cards will not be eligible for the Grand Prize.

​For more information, please call Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15, or send an email to lending@perrotlibrary.org.

Please note: Your Perrot READsquared account will be separate from your Greenwich Library READsquared account. You may sign up for both programs and receive prizes from both libraries. 

Perrot Summer Reading for Kids 2021-- Tails and Tales

Summer is here-- and that means it's time to sign up for Perrot's summer reading club for kids! You can participate (and win prizes for reading!) starting TODAY, through Wednesday, August 4th. The Summer Reading theme this year is TAILS AND TALES!

We will again be using ReadSquared to manage our summer reading program. Simply make an account with ReadSquared, and you can log books read and even review them. (If you made a Perrot ReadSquared account last year, you may reuse your old login information.) After you have read your first, third, and fifth books, you get a prize! After you've read your first book, you get an animal ruler bookmark. When you've finished your third book, you get a gift certificate for a free cookie at Sweet Pea's Baking Company in Old Greenwich. After you've read your fifth book, you get to pick out a brand-new book. When you've earned a prize, please stop in to the library and let us know at the Youth Services Desk!

​Parents, you can also set up a ReadSquared account for your child who is not yet reading independently. Once you have logged 20 books read to your child, your child will get to pick out a free book! 

Please note: Your Perrot ReadSquared account will be separate from your Greenwich Library ReadSquared account. You may sign up for both programs and receive prizes from both libraries. 

Upcoming Event: Become a Dementia Friend

Become a Dementia Friend: A Zoom Workshop

presented in partnership with the Greenwich Commission on Aging and River House Adult Day Center

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021, at 7 PM

Register today via Zoom

Dementia Friends is a global movement that is changing the way people think, act, and talk about dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Each one of us can make a difference for people touched by dementia, if we understand what it is and how it impacts people. 

To become an official Dementia Friend, join us for this one-hour Zoom session to learn the five key messages and what it's like to live with dementia. As a Dementia Friend, your new understanding and attitudes will guide the practical actions you can take to help someone with dementia living in your home, family, or community. 

Questions? Call the Greenwich Commission on Aging: 203-862-6710

Perrot Marched in the Memorial Day Parade- 2021

Perrot marched in Old Greenwich's 2021 Memorial Day Parade! Children's Librarian Mrs. J was joined by members of our Young Critics' book club. The marchers carried a banner promoting our Summer Reading theme, Tails and Tales!

Young Young Critics' Club's (Y2C2) Favorite Books of 2020-2021

THIS JUST IN!

The Young Young Critics' Club (Y2C2), our 4th- and 5th-grade book club, has just voted on its favorite books of 2020-2021. Their favorite book of the year is: MILLIONAIRES FOR THE MONTH, by Stacy McAnulty!

Be sure to take a look at the rest of the group's favorites for some fabulous kid-approved picks for 4th- and 5th-graders!

Winners of the Semi-Annual Y2C2 Jeopardy Tournament

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

The winning team is The Book Birds-- Tessa, Jack, Sean, Lucia, and Fiona!

The winners have demonstrated their mastery of trivia questions related to the books that the Young Young Critics' Club (our book club for 4th- and 5th-graders) has read during the past year. 

Young Critics' Club's Favorite Books of 2020-2021

BREAKING NEWS!

The Young Critics' Club (YCC), our 6th-, 7th-, and 8th-grade book club, has just voted on its favorite books of 2020-21. Their favorite book of the year is: UNPLUGGED, by Gordon Korman!

Be sure to take a look at the rest of the group's favorites for some fabulous kid-approved picks for middle-schoolers!

Winners of the YCC Jeopardy Tournament

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the Young Critics' Club Jeopardy Tournament! 

The winning team was The Lobsters of Oz: Zoe, Nora, and Rohan.

They have showed their mastery of trivia questions related to books that YCC (our book club for Grades 6, 7, and 8) has read over the past year.

Upcoming Event: Author Talk with Jim Campbell on his book, Madoff Talks

Virtual Author Talk with Jim Campbell on his book, 

Madoff Talks: Uncovering the Untold Story Behind the Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme in History

Wednesday, May 19th, 2021, at 7 PM

Register today via Zoom

No name is more synonymous with the evils of Wall Street than Bernie Madoff. Arrested for fraud in 2008―during the depths of the global financial crisis―the 70-year-old market maker, investment advisor, and former chairman of the NASDAQ had orchestrated the largest Ponzi scheme in world history, fleecing thousands of investors across the globe to the tune of $65 billion. 

In Madoff Talks, author Jim Campbell presents the most comprehensive, insider account of the Madoff saga to date. Based on exclusive interviews with all the players―the Madoff family and their associates, the Wall Street wheelers and dealers, the army of lawyers, analysts, and investigators, the victims of the scheme, and Bernie Madoff himself―the book reveals:

•     what motivated a respected financier to commit such a massive fraud
•     how Madoff managed to keep the scheme hidden in plain sight
•     the shocking failures of Wall Street oversight―and how it could happen again
•     the true scale of the investment losses―and the victims’ ongoing fight for justice
•     what Ruth Madoff and the rest of the family knew―and how it shattered their lives

Meticulously researched and relentlessly riveting, Madoff Talks is the full story of an American tragedy.

Jim Campbell is the host of the nationally syndicated radio show, Business Talk with Jim Campbell. He is known for his hard-hitting interviews of leading figures from the worlds of business, politics, and sports. Known for “firsts,” Campbell snagged the first extensive interview with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer after his resignation, the first interview with former Tyco CEO Denis Kozlowski after his release from prison, and the first broadcast interview with former stock analyst Roomy Kahn, a government informant in one of the biggest insider trading busts in American history. Campbell’s extensive corporate, consulting, and entrepreneurial business background includes roles at KPMG Consulting, Dean Witter Financial Services (now Morgan Stanley), and IBM. He is founder and president of JC Ventures, Inc., a management consulting business.

Upcoming Event: Author Talk with Deborah Goodrich Royce on her book, Ruby Falls

 Upcoming Event:

Virtual Author Talk with Deborah Goodrich Royce on her book, Ruby Falls

Tuesday, June 1st, 2021, at 7 PM

Register today via Zoom

Deborah Goodrich Royce’s Ruby Falls is a nail-biting tale of a fragile young actress, the new husband she barely knows, and her growing suspicion that the secrets he harbors may eclipse her own. 

On a brilliantly sunny July day, six-year-old Ruby is abandoned by her father in the suffocating dark of a Tennessee cave. Twenty years later, transformed into soap opera star Eleanor Russell, she is fired under dubious circumstances. Fleeing to Europe, she marries a glamorous stranger named Orlando Montague and keeps her past closely hidden. Together, Eleanor and Orlando start afresh in LA. Setting up house in a storybook cottage in the Hollywood Hills, Eleanor is cast in a dream role—the lead in a remake of Rebecca. As she immerses herself in that eerie gothic tale, Orlando’s personality changes, ghosts of her past reemerge, and Eleanor fears she is not the only person in her marriage with a secret. . .

Deborah Goodrich Royce’s first novel, Finding Mrs. Ford, debuted in 2019 to rave reviews. She divides her time between the Northeast and Florida, where she writes, reads, watches lots of movies, and spends time with her family.

Deborah serves on the governing and/or advisory boards of the Avon Theatre, the American Film Institute, New York Botanical Garden, the Greenwich International Film Festival, the Greenwich Historical Society, the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, the Preservation Society of Newport, and the PRASAD Project. She and her husband have restored more buildings than she can count, including the Ocean House Hotel and the Deer Mountain Inn.

Deborah holds a BA in French and Italian from Lake Erie College and an honorary doctorate from the same institution. In an earlier life, she was an actress in film and television and a story editor at Miramax Films. Ruby Falls is her second psychological thriller, and she owes a debt of gratitude for its inspiration to Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock. 

Upcoming Event: Virtual Book Discussion on The Overstory, by Richard Powers

Perrot Memorial Library & Greenwich Pen Women

present a Virtual Book Discussion on

The Overstory, by Richard Powers

Facilitated by Laurie Heiss of Greenwich Pen Women

Monday, April 26th, 2021 at 7 PM via Zoom

The Overstory is about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with five trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. The issue of tree loss, as we celebrate the 51st Earth Day, resonates with many residents of Southwestern Connecticut.

Borrow a copy of the book here

Register for this event today via Zoom

For more information, contact lending@perrotlibrary.org

Upcoming Event: Virtual Discussion and Presentation with the Binney Park Advisory Committee

Upcoming Event:

Virtual Discussion and Presentation with the Binney Park Advisory Committee

Wednesday, April 21st, 2021, at 7 PM

Join us for an informative discussion on the progress of improvements to Binney Park and plans for the future. Featuring members of the Binney Park Advisory Committee: Peter Uhry, Nancy Chapin, and Lynne Davenport.

Register today via Zoom

Upcoming Event: Author Talk with Cameron Kelly Rosenblum on her book, The Stepping Off Place

Author Talk with Cameron Kelly Rosenblum 

on her debut novel, The Stepping Off Place

Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 at 7 PM via Zoom

Join us for a conversation with Cameron Kelly Rosenblum about her debut novel, The Stepping Off Place, a touching YA novel that explores themes of friendship, grief, and mental health.

Cameron Kelly Rosenblum grew up in Darien, Connecticut. She studied English literature at Kenyon College and earned a Master’s in Education at Lesley University. Her time as a teacher and children’s librarian inspired her to write for young people. The Stepping Off Place is her debut novel. Cameron lives near Portland, Maine with her husband, son, daughter, two dogs, and a cat.

Register today via Zoom

Upcoming Event: A Virtual Discussion and Cooking Demo with Lindsay-Jean Hard, Author of Cooking with Scraps

Perrot Memorial Library 

presents

A Virtual Discussion and Cooking Demo with Lindsay-Jean Hard, Author of Cooking with Scraps

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021 at 7 PM via Zoom

Join us in support of  Waste Free Greenwich’s Save the Food Challenge with a cooking demo and discussion with  Lindsay-Jean Hard, IACP award-nominated author of Cooking with Scraps: Turn Your Peels, Cores, Rinds, and Stems into Delicious Meals. Lindsay-Jean will teach us how to transform often discarded food scraps into delicious and surprising culinary creations. Discover waste-reducing tips for storing and preparing meals. You can cook along with Lindsay-Jean as she creates a mouthwatering Carrot Top Pesto.

Cooking with Scraps grew out of the Author’s Food 52 column of the same name.  Lindsay-Jean received her Master’s in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan and currently works at the acclaimed Zingerman’s Bakehouse in Ann Arbor, where she shares her passion for great food, sustainability and community.

Register today via Zoom