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Join us in a celebration of children and books featuring exciting performances. Enjoy a bilingual storytime, make a craft, enjoy making a piñata with us, feast on delicious treats and choose a free book. For more information call the

CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK

Tuesday, May 1

• All Day -- Matisse’s Garden & Henri’s Scissors – Help create a mural based on books about artist, Henri Matisse outside the children’s room. A passive program that will continue through Friday.

• 7:00 p.m. -- KATHERINE APPLEGATE – author talk - Endling: The Last – sponsored and hosted in conjunction with our local children’s bookstore Once Upon a Time, the nation's oldest children's bookstore.

Wednesday, May 2

• 3:00 p.m., Main Floor -- Paper bird/airplane making and testing.  Based on Dan Santat’s After the Fall. 

Thursday, May 3

• 3:00 p.m., Main Floor -- Egg Drop - Children will engineer a device to cushion a confetti egg dropped from the library’s second floor balcony - based on Dan Santat’s After the Fall .

Friday, May 4 – May the Fourth Be With You  

• 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. -- Dress up with our Star Wars props and take a photo. Make a Make paper light saber craft. 

For more information call the Downtown Central Library Children's Room at 818-548-2035.