April is Jazz Appreciation month and to celebrate the Georgetown Children's Room is highlighting "Jazz Baby" by Lisa Wheeler. This book is perfect for preschoolers and kindergartners, it offers an array of rhythms and rhyming and offers a great way to interact with your child through repetition.
Come join the fun! Origami lovers and the just plain curious are invited to our May workshop on Thursday, May 10th at 7 p.m. We will make origami boxes. These little boxes are the perfect size for candies and other trinkets (like a May basket). The library will provide the materials. Also, all ages and all skill levels are welcome. Registration is not required, but you may direct any questions to megan.mcnitt@dc.gov.
We have an extensive collection of green advice books on display at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library. These how-to books offer instructions on everything from reducing your carbon footprint to hosting an environmentally-friendly wedding. The display is on the first floor near the circulation desk.
You too can help end child hunger!
In celebration of the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ riveting Hunger Games trilogy, DC Public Library is partnering with area food banks to call attention to child hunger in the District.
Georgetown Library Hosts a Hunger Action Station
*Bring low sodium canned and whole grain dry food items to be donated to Martha’s Table*
Fans of modern fairy tales have something to look forward to! We will meet on Tuesday, April 17th at 6:30 p.m. Our selection is Fables (Vol. 1) by Bill Willingham. Extra copies are available for check-out at the library near the circulation desk.
The Non-Fiction Book C
lub will discuss Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids on Thursday, April 26th at 7pm. This work won the National Book Award. Extra copies are available for check-out at the library near the circulation desk.
Please join us Saturday, April 7, at 10:30 a.m. for a springy story time, sweets and springtime crafts.
Nature lovers delight! We will make origami cherry blossom branches on Thursday, April 5th at 7 p.m. All materials provided. This family-friendly event is open to all ages.
We keep hearing that we must read Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning masterwork Midnight's Children, but it is really long! And complex! So we are going to do somethin
g we've never done before in the three-year history of the Georgetown Book Club... spread a book out over two months.
April 19 at 7:30 p.m.
At this first meeting we will discuss roughly the first half of the novel, from the beginning through the chapter titled "Alpha and Omega." Feel free to read more, but no discussing the ending until May!
May 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Celebrate all things Seuss and the love of reading with stories and crafts.
Tuesday, March 20, at 3:30 p.m.
