It's time for our All Ages Summer Reading 2015 Program. Sign up here and download your #bplsummer game card, or pick one up from any of our library locations. Once you've done that, just start reading, streaming, browsing, or visiting your local library. Every time you do, put an X on your game board. 30 X-s and you are a WINNER!
We have great prizes for you to claim every step of the way, and EVERY TIME you finish a game board you will get entered into a grand prize raffle! Enter again and again and again and again... That's not all, though. Post photos of yourself, your friends, and your family reading this summer on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter with the hashtag #bplsummer. We'll feature our favorites on our website! And remember: this year's Summer Reading Game is all-ages, so get your siblings, your friends, parents and everyone else you know in on the action!  We look forward to seeing you at the library all summer long! Use the #bplsummer hashtag to keep in touch |
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Bay Area Book Festival @ the Library
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 We are partnering with the BABF to host some great events. See the complete Festival schedule.
Bilingual Story Time @CentralSaturday, June 6 3:00-3:30pm 4th floor Children's Room Presented by Bilingual Books; with Mathilde Hollander and seven translators Bring the little ones to enjoy a story time in eight languages! Children will explore their senses through story and play, learning the names for each sense in a multi-lingual environment. Readers from Bilingual Books will be on hand to provide free bilingual resources after the event. For Kids, By a Kid: How to Write Your Own Book @CentralMichelle Longega Wilson Sunday, June 7 11:00am 3rd floor Community Meeting Room Do you have a budding author in your family? Or, because you're a kid, you don't think you could write your own book? Find out how an ordinary eight-year-old girl became an Amazon bestselling author. Michelle Longega Wilson, author of the bilingual book series The Adventures of Giulia presents her own writing experiences and explain to kids how they can write their own book. Michelle will walk us through her simple step-by-step plan. For all ages. Raising a Reader: Developing Early Literacy Skills @CentralSunday, June 7 2:00-3:20pm 3rd floor Community Meeting Room Presented by Raising a Reader. The Raising a Reader staff offer read-aloud demonstrations and strategies specifically designed to build early literacy and support learning standards, including Common Core and The Preschool Learning Foundations. Bring the kids and learn new strategies for reading together as a family UC Berkeley Story Time: an adventure through Cal's first children's book! @CentralSunday, June 7 3:00-3:30pm 4th floor Children's Room Presented by UC Berkeley's BUILD Public Service Center. Students and staff from UC Berkeley's BUILD program wrote and illustrated a children's book all about the exciting life of a Cal student as told by a Cal campus squirrel! Each family attending receives a free copy of the book. Peme Gellek @Children's StageSaturday, June 6 4:00pm Children's Stage-downtown Berkeley Tashi and Norbu is about Tashi, a little nomad boy who has grown up in a valley of the towering Himalayas. He learns his best friend, Norbu, a most unusual yak, is destined for slaughter. He embarks on a high-altitude adventure to save Norbu, and learns the meaning of friendship and the preciousness of all life. More about the Bay Area Book Festival
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Build it Bigger@SouthWednesday, June 17 3:00pm Families! Try your hand at engineering at these fun STEM powered workshops with Lawrence Hall of Science Inventor's Workshop. Space Limited. Registration starts June 1. Call 510-981-6260 to register. Ages 5-13. Sing Along with Amy Liz @North BranchWednesday, June 17 3:30pm Preschool music teacher and children's entertainer Amy Liz has collected some of the best loved children's songs, original songs, and contemporary songs to sing along to! Finger puppets, interactive songs, creative movement and a host of other fun props and visuals keep audiences engaged and entertained. Ages 3-7.  Caterpillar Puppets Bilingual Show @CentralSaturday, June 20 10:30am Community Meeting Room Come for a bilingual retelling of the Three Billy Goats Gruff: Los Tres Cabritos Traviesos! Ages 4-7.
Magic Dan! @WestWednesday, June 24 4:00 pm Fast-paced, captivating magic tricks! Great magic and a whole lot of fun! Ages Ages 3-9. Magical Moonshine Theater @ClaremontSaturday, June 27 4:00 pm In this retelling of the Three Little Pigs, things don't go as planned: houses collapse, pigs and wolves play together, and audience members help out with lots of live music, singing, construction and laughter Ages 3-7. |
Did you Know?
Use Discover & Go and mark an X on your Summer Reading Game Card! Explore More!
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Hippos Are Huge!by Jonathan London What's the deadliest animal in Africa? It's not the lion or the crocodile - it's the hippopotamus! Hippos have razor-sharp tusks, weigh as much as fifty men, and can run twenty-five miles per hour! Follow these hefty hulks as they glide underwater, play tug-of-war, swat balls of dung at one another, and nuzzle their young in the mud. Just don't get too close-they could chomp you in two! Space Boy and His Dog by Dian Curtis Regan Niko may live on boring old Earth with his family, but he's always finding a new adventure. Using the spaceship that he built from a box in his backyard and a little imagination, he flies off into space with his robot, Radar, and his dog, Tag. The only one NOT invited is his sister Posh who keeps trying to insert herself into Niko's story! Familiesby Shelley Rotner Big or small, similar or different-looking, there are all kinds of families. Some have one parent, some have two, and many include extended family. This inclusive look at many varieties of families will help young readers see beyond their own immediate experiences and begin to understand the experiences of others. Fish in a Treeby Lynda Mullaly Hunt "Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid." Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? Her newest teacher sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble-maker. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of.
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Friends of the Berkeley Public Library Book Sale @CentralSaturday, June 13 10:00am-4:00pm Sunday, June 14 1:00-4:00pm 3rd floor Community Meeting Room Thousands of gently used donated books will be on sale for 50 cents each. Paperback & hardcover books on topics such as - Cooking
- Biography
- History
- Art
- Travel
- Children's
Big Bag Sale on Sunday (Better Books excepted)Proceeds support the many programs of the Berkeley Public Library.
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