Knee High Story Time
October 2022
Knee High Story Time meets Wednesday mornings at 9 am in the Dell, our young children’s play room. The story time is a program of stories, songs, rhymes, and other activities geared for toddlers through pre-K. Contact office@phillipsfreelibrary.org for more information.
The library officially opens at 9 am but the doors will be open by 8:45 am.
Upcoming Story Time themes are:
Oct. 12th - Bears
Oct. 19th - 1,2,3
Oct. 26th - Cats
K-2 Library Zoo
October 2022
This new program for K-2nd grade will be on Wednesday afternoons at 3:20 pm. Each week there will be a different focus, including a story time, a Lego day, a day of games for the mind and body, and a book club. The book club requires registration. For all other weeks, registration is not required. Contact office@phillipsfreelibrary.org for more informaiton.
Upcoming schedule:
Oct. 12th – Book Club – Pre-registration required
Oct. 19th – Games
Oct. 26th – Story Time – Creepy Stories
Science Fair Prep Group Info Night
Wednesday, October 19th
Are you into science and engineering? Do you have a question you want to answer? Or a problem you want to solve? This prep group, facilitated by the Dudgeon family, will gather throughout the fall and winter to guide 4th- 8th graders through the process of starting a project all the way to presenting at the Central New York Science and Engineering Fair the last weekend in March.
Join us for an informational meeting for 4th-8th grade students with an adult. Come see if this group is for you. Registration is helpful but not required: office@phillipsfreelibrary.org
Points of View: A Book Discussion
Wednesday, October 26th @ 6:30 pm
This monthly virtual book club discusses novels centered on characters from diverse cultures, life experiences, and different points of view. The book club meets via zoom on the fourth Wednesday of the month. It will meet on Oct. 26th at 6:30 pm to discuss Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters.
“Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.
Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese—and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby—and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it—Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family—and raise the baby together?” Email Ashley at ashley@phillipsfreelibrary.org to be sent the zoom link. (The November book will be Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley.)
The Books That Get Us Through
Thursday, October 27th @ 6 pm
It’s been a tough couple of years, but books help. Come to a discussion on Thursday, Oct. 27th at 6 pm, of one of the books that helped many of us through the last couple of years – The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Register by emailing office@phillipsfreelibrary.org