Childrens Summer Reading Game Kickoff with Greenburgh Nature Center (Registration)
Wednesday, June 24
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Ages 2 – 12
Join the Greenburgh Nature Center to help us celebrate the beginning of Unearth a Story! Meet animals whose evolution echoes the dinosaurs that our summer reading theme is all about.
Register by emailing childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, calling (914) 693-6615, or stopping by the Children’s Room to sign up.
The Summer Reading Game is June 3 – August 14. Earn points and prizes by reading books and coming to our events. Everyone who participates will get a ticket to our outdoor ice cream party in August! This page will tell you everything you need to know about participating if your child is between the ages of 3 and 12. (Younger kids might want to take on the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten challenge!) Have questions? Email children’s librarian Gina at childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org.
Book Club: “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
Wednesday, June 24
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
This month we’re reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Walk ins welcome – copies of this book will be available for pick up at the circulation desk.
For information, email sbock@dobbsferrylibrary.org!
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s witty comedy of manners–one of the most popular novels of all time–that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the “most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author’s works,” and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as “irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.”