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Storytime in the Park

September 19, 10:30am - 11:00am

Come out to your favorite neighborhood parks for songs, rhymes and stories. Don’t forget to bring a blanket and bug spray! For kids of all ages.

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Storytime in the Park

September 20, 10:30am - 11:00am

Come out to your favorite neighborhood parks for songs, rhymes and stories. Don’t forget to bring a blanket and bug spray! For kids of all ages.

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Meet the Great Masters of Art

September 20, 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Learn about famous artists and make art in their medium or style. Artists include painter Earnest Lee, the quilters of Gee’s Bend, and print artist Gwen Frostic. For grades 3-5.

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Glen Ellyn Public Library offers a variety of storytimes for children starting at birth. During librarian-led programs that incorporate stories, songs, movement, rhymes, and other activities, your child will learn to love reading and the library.

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1K Club (2023)Glen Ellyn Public Library is challenging families to read 1,000 books with their children before kindergarten! Reading aloud to your child is one of the best things you can do to help prepare them for kindergarten. It’s an activity known to develop essential pre-reading skills. Most importantly, reading aloud can raise a lifelong reader!

Reading 1,000 books aloud sounds like hard work, but let’s break down the math. If you read one book a night, you will have read over 1,000 books in three years. If you read three books a day, you will complete the program in a year!

 

Oliver WEverything read to your child counts. These books can be

  • Re-reads
  • From the library
  • Not from the library
  • Read by an older sibling, babysitter, or grandparent
  • Read at preschool
  • Read at storytime

What Do I Need to Do?

  1. Sign up at the Youth Desk. Registration is open all year.
  2. Mark each book down on your log. Download your 1K Club log.
  3. Collect a prize and receive a new log at every 100 books completed.

The 1K Club is designed for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers who have not yet entered kindergarten.

Need help finding new books? Ask at the Youth Desk.

examples of sticker club book, stickers, logOctober through April

Sticker Club is a fun way for kids in grades k-8 to earn stickers when they read!

Sign up at the Youth Desk to receive a Sticker Album and a Sticker Club Log. Keep track of the days you read and earn a sticker for every seven days logged!

Prairie Path Park book pages on display in a park

 

 

 

 

StoryWalk®, located in Prairie Path Park between Forest Avenue and Park Boulevard, is an exciting, interactive way for children—and adults—to enjoy reading and the outdoors. Pages from a children’s book are placed on permanent signs along the walkway and changed periodically throughout the year.


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