Lego Club in the Children’s Room

Lego Club in the Children’s Room

Thursday, May 1 - June 28

3:30 pm - 4:45 pm

Ages 3 +

Use your imagination to build something special with our giant stash of LEGOS!

Fridays all month long.

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Print of the Month: Sweet Treats

Sunday, June 1 - June 28

All Day

Summer is finally almost here and that calls for a sweet treat!  You can choose between a piece of candy, a lollipop, donut, cupcake, ice cream cone or popsicle.

Email teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org to request yours.  Please include which keychain you want and your preferred color.

All ages – no cost – limit one per person

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Baby Songs & Stories

Baby Songs & Stories

Sunday, June 1 - August 30

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.

Registration recommended but not required – email childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the Children’s Room to sign up.

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Nintendo Switch Drop in Hours

Nintendo Switch Drop in Hours

Sunday, June 1 - July 3

3:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Teens!  Did you know that the library has a Nintendo Switch that you can use?

Come to the open hours on Friday afternoons OR Dobbs Ferry Public Library card holders can email teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org to reserve your time slot where you can use the Switch in the building (not available for checkout).

Grades 6 – 12 only.

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Teen Summer Reading Challenge

Teen Summer Reading Challenge

Sunday, June 15 - August 10

All Day

Sign up here

Log the time you spend reading online using Storygraph or on paper.  The more you read, the more prizes you earn!  Participating automatically enters you in a raffle for a big prize at the end of the summer.

Kickoff on June 18th.

Email teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org for more info.

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Toddler Stretch & Sing Storytime

Toddler Stretch & Sing Storytime

Sunday, June 22 - June 30

10:30 am - 11:00 am

18 to 36 months.

Get your wiggles out with songs and stories with Ms. Gina!

Email childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the children’s room for information and to sign up.

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Add to our Community Mural in the Community Room

Add to our Community Mural in the Community Room

Wednesday, June 25 - August 23

All Day

Thirty two kids of all ages created this mural in collaboration with Scribble Art Workshop to mark the beginning of the Summer Reading Challenge.  Use the tools on the table to add your piece.

Rules:

  1. Be cool, not offensive
  2. Be respectful to other’s art
  3. Be clean!

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Drop-In Craft Station

Drop-In Craft Station

Wednesday, June 25

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

All Ages

Looking for something to do as school ends? Swing by to make a craft in the children’s room and teen space from some of our many materials!

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Diabetes Support Group: Nutrition

Diabetes Support Group: Nutrition

Wednesday, June 25

1:15 pm - 2:15 pm

Discover a community that understands your journey with diabetes, offering support and guidance when you need it the most. Experience the strength of being a part of a network that celebrates resilience and provides resources to help you navigate your own health journey and help those you know.  This program will offer support for Diabetes Management topics: Healthy Coping & Eating, Being Active, Taking Medications, Monitoring, Reducing Risks and Problem Solving.

These meetings are open to all community members, including Dobbs Ferry seniors, and will be held on the last Wednesday of the month.

Monthly Themes will be:

  • June 25: Nutrition
  • July 30: Medication
  • August 27: Being Prepared
  • September 24: Technology & Monitoring
  • October 29: Advocacy
  • November 26: Self-Care
  • December 26: Holiday Cooking

A co-operative program between the Dobbs Ferry Public Library and Diabetes Sisters.

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Romance Book Club: "Seven Days in June" (Registration)

Romance Book Club: “Seven Days in June” (Registration)

Wednesday, June 25

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

This month we’re reading Seven Days in June by Tia Williams.

Copies of this book will be available for pick up at the circulation desk.

To register, email sbock@dobbsferrylibrary.org!

Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up in New York.

When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York’s Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can’t deny their chemistry – or the fact that they’ve been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since.

Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva’s not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered…

With its keen observations of Black life and the condition of modern motherhood, as well as the consequences of motherless-ness, Seven Days in June is by turns humorous, warm and deeply sensual.

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English Conversation Boost Course

English Conversation Boost Course

Wednesday, June 25

6:30 pm - 7:45 pm

Gain confidence!
Build vocabulary!
Meet other learners!
Sign up now for a special three-week evening course for English for Speakers of Other Languages. The class is FREE and is for ages 15 and older who have at least elementary English. If you are not sure of your level, please contact the instructor, Lise Stone, or take a brief online level test such as this one. (Hint: If you can understand this description, the course should work for you!)
Lessons are aimed at improving your ability to understand other people — and for them to understand you. Also included: practice with everyday conversations, such as:
  • getting or giving directions
  • setting up appointments, and
  • resolving everyday problems
Classes include games and casual conversation to make learning more enjoyable. Participants should plan to attend all three classes.
Use this form to register!

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