Summer Reading Wrap-up

Thanks to everyone who participated in Youth Services's 2017 summer reading program and weekly contests! This year's theme was "BUILD A BETTER WORLD."

Please take a look at the four happy winners of our weekly contests! They had to guess how many candies were in the jar each week.

It was a great year for summer reading-- 351 kids signed up and read 1,144 books in total!

This year, Perrot will make a donation based on each book read by our summer readers to Habitat for Humanity of Lower Fairfield County. Habitat's work in Fairfield County includes more than just building homes for families-- they are a construction company with a green focus, a family services agency, a non-profit financial institution, an affordable housing advocate and a community service project provider for thousands of people each year. They also operate a ReStore in Stratford, CT-- a nonprofit home improvement and donation center that sells quality new and used furniture, appliances, home accessories and building materials to the public at low cost.

If you were one of our very special signer-uppers, you can still keep track of the books you read, even though our "official" program has ended! You can either take your reading record home with you, or leave it here in the library. We will also continue to give out prizes for books read (while supplies last, so HURRY!).

We'd also like to give a special mention our teen volunteers, who helped record books for our reading program participants. This year we had 62 volunteers, who together worked 585 hours staffing our summer reading table. Thanks, guys!

And remember, we still have another month of summer left, so please KEEP READING!

Countdown to Kindergarten Storytime

It's that time of year again... time for our annual Countdown to Kindergarten Storytime-- featuring stories, songs, and a craft to help your child get ready for the first day of Kindergarten! This program is for children entering Kindergarten in Fall 2017 ONLY. Children attend independently, but parents and caregivers should remain in the Library.

Parents! While your child participates in the storytime, please join us for a Q&A with retired Greenwich Public Schools psychologist, Dr. Linnea Stenberg, who will discuss how you can help your child with this important transition. 

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017 at 1 PM in the Children's Program Room

Sign up now at the Youth Services Desk

Upcoming Event: Book Discussion on The Hare with Amber Eyes, by Edmund de Waal

Greenwich Pen Women/Perrot Memorial Library Book Discussion Group

PRE-REGISTER NOW AT THE ADULT CIRCULATION DESK AND GET YOUR COPY OF THE BOOK- SEATING IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 20 REGISTRANTS!

THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES: A HIDDEN INHERITANCE, by Edmund de Waal
Theme: Art, Emotion, and Memory
Facilitated by Sarah Darer Littman of Greenwich Pen Women
Monday, September 11th, 2017, at 7 PM
The Rand Room, Perrot Memorial Library

For nearly a century, the Ephrussi family controlled a business empire in Europe, massing wealth and objets d'art. A Parisian Ephrussi, Charles, who was a patron of the Impressionists, and inspiration for Marcel Proust's Charles Swann, purchased a collection of 264 tiny Japanese carvings called netsuke, including a hare with amber eyes.

In 1899, Charles sent the collection as a wedding present to his cousin, Viktor Ephrussi, in Vienna.

When the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, they confiscated the Ephrussi's business interests, and their extensive art collection. The netsuke escaped their clutches, hidden in the mattress of a loyal maid, Anna, for the duration of the war.

Edmund de Waal, a noted ceramicist, inherited the netsuke from his uncle Ignace, who had left for America before the war and served in U.S. Army Intelligence. The collection provides a thread weaving together this fascinating memoir of art, history, and family.

Upcoming Event: The Great American Total Solar Eclipse- A Talk with Paul Alimena

Upcoming Event:

The Great American Total Solar Eclipse- A Talk with Paul Alimena

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017, at 7:30 PM

Paul Alimena, a member of the Westchester Amateur Astronomers and friend of the Astronomical Society of Greenwich, will give a presentation about the upcoming solar eclipse that will occur on August 21st, 2017. This will be the first time totality will contact the lower 48 United States since 1979, and the first coast-to-coast path of totality since 1918. Mr. Alimena will share his photos, videos, and experiences viewing two previous total eclipses, and will explain what will be visible in our area. Special Eclipse Viewing Glasses will be distributed.

Movies in the Park: La La Land

Perrot is pleased to present our eleventh annual series of Movies in the Park in Binney Park. 

Bring your picnic, your chairs, and enjoy the show!

LA LA LAND (2016, Rated PG-13, 128 minutes)

Saturday, July 15th, 2017 at 8:30 PM

[No Rain Date]

Winner of 6 Academy Awards® including Best Director for writer/director Damien Chazelle, and winner of a record-breaking 7 Golden Globe® Awards, LA LA LAND is the story of Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart. (Plot summary from IMDb.com)