LEGO Donations Needed!

We'd like to start our first LEGO club - but we need, well, LEGOS! It's a great time of year to clean out your closets...


We're looking for donations of new and used LEGOS to get us started. Starter sets are especially welcome. Any donations made are tax-deductible and a receipt will be provided upon request. We appreciate your help!

Read a book. Give a book.

We Give Books is a free website that enables anyone with access to the internet to put books in the hands of children who don't have them, simply by reading online. Share the power and pleasure of reading and teach your child about helping others at the same time. Simply choose the charity you want to read for and then select the books you want to read. For each book you read online, We Give Books donates a book to a leading literacy group on your behalf. The more you read, the more they give.

Visit http://www.wegivebooks.org to read and give!

DECEMBER VACATION MOVIE MATINEES

DECEMBER VACATION MOVIE MATINEES
Tuesday, Dec. 27 & Wednesday, Dec. 28 @ 2 PM

Avoid cabin fever by coming to a movie at the library! We'll provide some munchies (but you can bring your own, if you wish). All ages. No registration is required.

Tuesday, Dec. 27: Mr. Popper's Penguins (Rated PG)
Wednesday, Dec. 28: The Smurfs (Rated PG)

CURIOUS? READ! The Curious George Reading Program

CURIOUS? READ! 

The Curious George Reading Program 

Curious George is set to help your child make the first step to reading success! The world’s most beloved (and curious) monkey will take you and your child on a fun-filled adventure at the library where you’ll explore the wonderful world of books. The reading program incorporates reading and sharing books together with fun-filled activities you can do with your child to support early literacy development. The single most important activity for raising a successful reader is reading aloud with your child!

Stop by the Children's Room to pick up your Curious George Reading Program bag to get started (while supplies last). Each bag contains a free gameboard, sticker and bookmark. Each week the library will have a new craft and early literacy tip to share with participating families. There are incentives for adults and children alike.

The program is both a Read With Me program for children who do not yet read on their own, and an Early Reader program for beginning readers. Being ready to read starts with babies – no child is too young to sign up! 

For more information, visit www.CoventryPL.org (where you can register online and download a gameboard and activity sheets) or call the Children’s Room at (860) 742-7606. The Curious? READ! Reading Program is sponsored by the American Library Association and Houghton Mifflin Company.

We're on Twitter!

The Booth & Dimock Memorial Library Children's Room is on Twitter! 

Follow us @DreyfusDragon!

Children's Books for Holiday Giving

A book is the PERFECT gift for a child...and children's librarians from across CT contribute their picks to the annual "Children's Books for Holiday Giving Booklists". There are fabulous suggestions for every age group! Visit http://www.ctlibrarians.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=32 to find these lists in PDF format, or visit the library and pick up some hard copies!

Old Fashioned Christmas in Coventry

Are you planning to attend the Old Fashioned Christmas in Coventry on Sunday, Dec. 4? The Board of Trustees will be handing out Cookies and Cider and telling holiday stories in the Front Parlors and the Lion's Club Festival of Trees will be in our Meeting Room. 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2011  

12:00 – 4:00 PM

SPECIAL EVENTS AT TIMES SPECIFIED
12:00 – 4:00 Old Fashioned Country Cupboard Coventry Visitors Center
12:00 - 4:00 Chocolate Festival-Class of 2012 Ackert’s Hall
12:00 - 4:00 Christmas Vendor Showcase Studio 31 Storefront
12:00 - 3:30 “Festival of Christmas Trees” Raffle Booth & Dimock Library
Lion’s Club Fundraiser for Coventry Food Pantry
12:30 -3:30 Nathan Hale Ancient Fife & Drum Strolling Main Street
1:00 - 3:00 Pony Rides Beebe House/Brian’s Electric
1:00 – 3:00 Horse Drawn Wagon Rides Main & Mason Street
1:00 – 2:00 Coventry High School Chorus Lakeview Restaurant
1:00- 2:00 Dance Troupe, Can Dance Studio First Congregational Church Hall
1:00 – 3:00 Holiday Story Time Booth & Dimock Library
1:00 - 3:00 Jewelry Designer, Crafts, Music Worn Yesterday Shop
1:00 - 2:00 Quiet Corner Fiddlers Worn Yesterday Shop
1:00 - 3:00 Santa Claus – Children Visit Coventry Arts & Antiques
1:00 - 3:00 David Rogers, Photographer Coventry Arts & Antiques
1:30 – 2:30 Dulcimers and More Music Treasures Antiques
1:30 – 2:15 Karate Spirit, demonstration Karate Spirit
2:00 2:30 Choir Performance First Congregational Church
2:30 - 3:00 Carol Sing with Song A Day Music First Congregational Church

Businesses open and having a special program from 12:00 –4:00:
Meet Me on Main, Special Menu for event
Lakeview Restaurant, Hot Chocolate, Face Painting, Lake Street
Village Pizza $2.00 pizza slices
Johnson’s Antiques, Special Raffle, light refreshments
Karate Spirit, Open House, Demonstrations, Treats
Coventry Fitness, Membership raffle, Pony for viewing & petting
Beebe House Restaurant, Christmas Party 2:00-4:00 , snacks, Music
Over Brook Second Hand Shop, Mason Street, rear building, Open House
Treasures Antiques, Song A Day Music Students, 12:30 – 1:30

*** Tips to Toes Nail Spa and Impressive Acrylics Nail Spa will have paraffin hand treatments, snacks, Tastefully Simple, Hair Feather extensions, Face Painting and Celebrating Home. Many Cash & Carry Items. 12:00 – 4:00***

This yearly event is brought to you by the Village Improvement Society, First Niagara Bank, Lion’s Club and the Village Merchants!