 September is National Library Card Sign-up Month, an event started in 1987 with the goal of getting library cards into the hands of every school-aged child. Since then, public libraries and schools across the nation have helped make library users out of scores of children. Do you know a child who needs a library card? Even babies can have their own card! Join us in making them and their families aware of countless resources available to Berkeley Public Library cardholders!  National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated during the last part of this month and the first part of October. Hispanic Heritage Month, whose roots go back to 1968, begins each year on September 15, the anniversary of independence of five Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Mexico, Chile and Belize also celebrate their independence days during this period. Columbus Day (also celebrated as Indigenous Peoples' Day or Día de la Raza) is October 12. Read Cinco Libros to learn about five books for all ages on Hispanic heritage picked by one of our children's librarians. In addition to thousands of books, magazines, DVDs and CDs, we also offer free services available in our eLibrary on our website, including:  Tutor.com: Get free and live homework help from professional tutors from grades K-12 and beyond. Available 2:00-9:00pm. 361 days of the year. Trusted tutors on 30 subjects.  Discover & Go: Find free and low-cost tickets to excellent museums, theatres, aquariums, zoos and science centers in the Greater Bay Area. Check out our Pinterest Board featuring many of these great places or subscribe to our Discover & Go Twitter List! For Hispanic Heritage month consider a visit to the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park. Discover & Go gets a library card holder a Family pass - free admission for 2 adults & 2 children. (Ages 10 & under free.) Or visit the Oakland Museum or Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.  Mango Languages: Learn 24 different languages and take 15 different ESL courses. Learn Spanish or even "Pirate" so that you can celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19!  Flipster: Get instant access to ten different online children's magazines: Discovery for Girls, Ranger Rick, Zoobooks and more! Easy to read format and you never have to worry about misplacing or damaging them! Now do you see why having a library card is cooler than cool?
Celebrate by attending a Library event today!
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Children's Free Library Events for September
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Sing-a-Long with East Bay Music Together @Central CCR Wednesday, September 2 10:30am-11:00am Come sing children's songs and well-known songs from world traditions! This program is led by Music Together teacher Renee Benmeleh with guitar and percussion. For children and their families. Fourth floor, Central Library Children's Room. 3rd Graders Readers' Theater Club @Central CCRFriday, September 11 4:00pm-5:00pm All the World's a stage. In this new monthly club for third graders, we read plays and poems aloud, play theater games, make new friends, increase reading fluency, and become a star! Everyone gets a chance to read. We meet for four Fridays for this school year: September 11, October 9, November 13, and December 11, 2015. Fourth floor, Central Library Children's Room  Berkeley Old Time Music @Central Saturday, September 19 10:15am-11:00am The Canote Brothers, identical twins Greg and Jere, are long-time favorites of Bay Area audiences. With fiddle, banjo, guitar, ukulele, and genetically matched voices, Greg and Jere specialize in fun, vintage American music, from long-forgotten fiddle scorchers to hilarious novelty songs from the 1920s and '30s. Part of the Berkeley Old Time Music Festival. For children and their families. Third floor Community Meeting Room The Five Suns of Mexico @WestSeptember 19 4:00pm-5:00pm Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with Gloria Arjona, as she tells the history of Mexico through stories, songs, and pictures! Gloria Arjona has a Ph.D. in Spanish by the University of Southern California, and currently teaches Spanish language and literature at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech). More Library events... |
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Free events at Central Library; North, South and West Branche sare sponsored by the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library. Events at North Branch Library are made possible by a generous gift from the Pace Trust, in support of the North Branch of the Berkeley Public Library. |
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 Fiestas: A Year of Latin American Songs of Celebrationby José-Luis Orozco and by Elisa Kleven Cal alumnus, musician and author José-Luis Orozco, and Bay Area illustrator Elisa Kleven come together to create this book full of bilingual songs celebrating a year of holidays. Written in both English and Spanish. For more, try listening along to the CD, called simply Fiestas (J CD R Or68f2) Kitchen Dance by Maurie J. Manning Two young children sneak downstairs to watch their parents dance and sing around the kitchen while cleaning from the evening's meal. Soon, the children are swept up in the loving tune: "Como te quiero/oh, how I love you!" Readers will also be swept up in this exuberant celebration of family. Tia Isa Wants a Carby Meg Medina and Claudio Muñoz Tía Isa wants a car, a car the same ocean green that lapped at the island she grew up on, with pointy wings off the back like the seagulls that swooped for her crab buckets. Tío Andres says the idea is ridiculous, the salesman says she doesn't have enough money, and they have to send money home to help the family. But with Tía Isa's determination, and her niece's help, they might just see their dream come true. Portraits of Hispanic American Heroesby Juan Felipe Herrera and Raul Colon Profiles of 21 true American heroes, written by the multi-talented Juan Felipe Herrera, who is the first Hispanic American to be named United States Poet Laureate. Short biographies highlight the contributions of people such as astronaut Ellen Ochoa, journalist Ignacio E. Lozano, actor and musician Desi Arnaz, and poet Julia de Burgos. A Pura Belpré award winner. If you like this book, try the bilingual autobiography of Juan Felipe Herrera, Calling the Doves=El canto de las palomas. Sylvia and Akiby Winifred Conkling It is World War II, and all Sylvia wants is to go to the school closest to the farm her family is leasing. Instead, she must be bused to a school for Mexican American kids. Meanwhile, the people who used to live in that house, Aki's family, the Munemitsu's, have been sent to an internment camp in Arizona, far away from their home in California. This fictional retelling of a true story details how the two girls became friends while each dealing with the injustice of their situations. For more on Sylvia Mendez, read Duncan Tonatiuh's Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and her Family's Fight for Desegregation. |
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