Baby Songs & Stories in the Community Room
Monday, June 26
10:30 am - 11:00 am
For parents and caregivers of babies up to 24 months.
Join children’s librarian Gina to learn songs, fingerplays, and more that you can do with your baby. Each meeting will leave time for open discussion and connection with other parents/caregivers.
This program will be socially-distanced. Please make sure you and everyone in your family over the age of 2 wears their masks for its entirety.
Email dobchildref@wlsmail.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the children’s room for information and to sign up.
Summer Reading Game Kickoff with Talewise
Monday, June 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ages 5 +
Science and stories collide in this kickoff to our summer reading game! Two unlikely heroes must learn to work together to stop a super polluting mastermind.
Throughout the story, you’ll help the performer conduct amazing science experiments all about air pressure, the laws of motion, chemical reactions, and much more!
Kids who attend the above program are eligible to receive 75 extra points towards their summer reading goal on ReadSquared!
Registration prefered but not required — email dobchildref@wlsmail.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the Children’s Room to sign up.
Town & Gown Literary Discussion Group: simultaneously in person and via ZOOM
Monday, June 26
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
For the month of June, we will be discussing “Enigma Variations” by Andre Aciman. Order a copy of the book here. Email dobref@wlsmail.org for the ZOOM link.
Enigma Variations charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men―whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park or on a New York sidewalk in early spring. Paul’s attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire.
About the Author: André Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, and Find Me. He’s the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.