perrot_admin Perrot’s Youth Services Department is excited to host a traveling exhibit from The Stepping Stones Museum for Children. The interactive exhibit is called “Healthyville®—a Place for Every Body” and is home to residents of all ages who try every day to live active, healthy lifestyles. This exhibit provides children and adults with hands-on opportunities to … Read more
During the month of May 2016, our Youth Services librarian, Mrs. Jarombek, visited 4th- and 5th-grade classes at local elementary schools to talk about new and exciting books and to promote our summer reading program and book clubs for kids. Check out the full list for some great book recommendations!
Registration for Youth Services’ Summer 2016 Program Session is going on now through Sunday, June 12th. [View the summer program schedule] Our preschool programs are drop-in during the summer, but registration is still required for our Stuff & Nonsense (for kids entering 1st grade), and Spotlight (for kids entering 2nd/3rd/4th grade) programs Our program registration … Read more
Learning to Look: Family Art Program on American Impressionism Sunday, May 22nd, 2016, at 2 PM Perrot’s Children’s Wing Perrot Library is pleased to welcome back Alice Scovell Coleman, a lecturer with the Learning to Look program, for another afternoon of art. This program will focus on American Impressionism, particularly artists Childe Hassam and John … Read more
Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel, has been chosen as the Greenwich Reads Together selection for 2016. Greenwich Reads Together is a community-wide reading experience which engages all of Greenwich in exploring a single book, culminating in a month-long series of special events and programs in the fall. One snowy night, a famous Hollywood … Read more
The Young Critics’ Club (YCC), Perrot’s book club for 6th-, 7th-, and 8th-graders, has declared that its favorite book of 2015/2016 is… I AM PRINCESS X, by Cherie Priest Once upon a time, two best friends created a princess together. Libby drew the pictures, May wrote the tales, and their heroine, Princess X, slayed all … Read more
. . .Perrot needs you! Perrot is looking for teen volunteers for its Youth Services department to help run the summer reading program for kids. Who can be a Perrot Library Summer Teen Volunteer?Anyone who is going into Grades 7 and up, and who can volunteer at least 5 hours during the summer.When do volunteers … Read more
Journalist Will Stolzenburg on his new book, HEART OF A LION: A LONE CAT’S WALK ACROSS AMERICA Wednesday, May 25th, 2016 7:30 PM Radcliffe Children’s Wing Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England’s forgotten past. … Read more
Follow Perrot’s Youth Services Department on Bibliocommons! We have a growing collection of useful booklists, including lists of picture books on various themes, book club picks, and read-alikes. Some recent additions: An extensive list of Great Classroom Read-Alouds Easier novels for kids to try after they’ve moved on from Early Readers: Moving on from Beginning Readers- What’s … Read more
The Young Young Critics’ Club (Y2C2), Perrot’s book club for 4th- and 5th-graders, has declared that its favorite book of 2015/2016 is… THE BLACKTHORN KEY, by Kevin Sands Tell no one what I’ve given you. Until he got that cryptic warning, Christopher Rowe was happy, learning how to solve complex codes and puzzles and creating … Read more
The Youth Services Summer 2016 Program Schedule is now available! Please note that during our summer program session, all of our preschool programs are DROP-IN, and most are limited to the first 20 children and their caregivers to sign in before each program. Our Stuff & Nonsense and Spotlight programs will be by registration only. … Read more
Winners of the Semi-Annual Y2C2 Jeopardy Tournament Golden Y Award Winners, Spring 2016 CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the Semi-Annual Young Young Critics’ Club (Y2C2) Jeopardy Tournament! The winning team, Team Kyle (L-R): Leo, Elliot, Henry, Amrutha, and Ellie They are the current holders of the coveted Wonderful Golden “Y” Award! The winners have demonstrated … Read more
Perrot Memorial Library
90 Sound Beach Avenue
Old Greenwich, CT 06870
Circulation: (203) 637-1066
Reference: (203) 637-3870
Youth Services: (203) 637-8802
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