perrot_admin Find Your Happy Place on June 5th and 6th! Dust off your favorite hiking shoes and grab your water bottle. Connecticut Trails Day 2010 is almost here! This year’s celebration will be held Saturday and Sunday, June 5th and 6th, 2010, as part of National Trails Day. The theme is “Find Your Happy Place,” which … Read more
Registration for Youth Services Summer Programs starts on Monday, June 7th, 2010, and runs through Saturday, June 26th, 2010. [View the summer program schedule] Please note that during the summer, all of our preschool programs will be DROP-IN, limited to the first 20 children and their caregivers to sign in before each program. Our Stuff … Read more
Perrot marched in Old Greenwich’s 2010 Memorial Day Parade! Staff were joined by members of our Young Critics and Young Young Critics Book Clubs. We promoted our summer reading theme, Scoop Up a Good Book!
The Perrot Library beach box has been repaired and installed in its old spot next to the snack bar at the far end of the beach. The library is accepting donations of ‘gently used’ paperbacks for the beach box. Please drop off any book donations at the library. Thank you.
Youth Services has a growing collection of museum passes for you to borrow– our passes get you either free or discounted admission to many popular places! This year, we have the following passes available: AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, http://www.amnh.org/: FREE general and special admission for … Read more
Reminder: Perrot Memorial Library will present an evening of storytelling in memory of our beloved Children’s Librarians, Kate McClelland (“Mrs. Mac”) and Kathy Krasniewicz (“Mrs. K”). Those who knew Kate and Kathy, know how much storytelling was a part of their lives and how they used it to enchant and educate the youth of our … Read more
The last PJs at Perrot for the winter/spring session are happening this week! Join us tonight and Thursday, 5/18, at 6:30 PM for some stories! Feel free to wear your PJs! For kids ages 3-6 and their families.
The Town of Greenwich’s Household Hazardous Waste Collection will be held this Saturday, May 15th, 2010, from 8 A.M. until 1 P.M. in the parking lot of Greenwich High School. This is an opportunity for all town residents to properly and safely dispose of many toxic products that can’t go into the general waste system … Read more
What We’re Reading at Perrot THE BOY FROM BABY HOUSE 10: FROM THE NIGHTMARE OF A RUSSIAN ORPHANAGE TO A NEW LIFE IN AMERICA, BY ALAN PHILPS AND JOHN LAHUTSKY [Non-Fiction] What a timely book! We have just followed, in horror, the story of the adoptive mother who put a Russian child on a plane … Read more
Perrot now has a pass for the Beardsley Zoo for our patrons to borrow. Our pass gives FREE admission to 2 adults and up to 4 children! The pass can be borrowed for one week (no renewals, late fee is $1/day) from the Youth Services Desk. More about the zoo:Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo is a wonderful … Read more
The Young Critics’ Club (YCC), Perrot’s book club for 6th-, 7th- and 8th-graders, has declared that its favorite book of 2009/2010 is…. IT’S A TIE! Between: INCARCERON, by Catherine FisherIncarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has … Read more
Perrot Memorial Library will present an evening of storytelling in memory of our beloved Children’s Librarians, Kate McClelland (“Mrs. Mac”) and Kathy Krasniewicz (“Mrs. K”). Those who knew Kate and Kathy, know how much storytelling was a part of their lives and how they used it to enchant and educate the youth of our community. … Read more
