Booklovers of all ages are invited to play some Book Bingo – where all of the prizes are free books! These are being held at each of our locations in celebration of the library’s annual Summer Reading Challenges. Click here to register to attend at the Lewis Street branch on […]
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Summer Reading Program 2022 Summer Reading Program Packet Download What is the Summer Reading Program? Each year, the Library provides a summer reading program to our community to encourage children to read for fun and to keep using all of the skills they’ve learned in school over summer vacation! Our […]
Your Children’s Librarians at the Franklin Township Public Library wish you a very happy Earth Day on April 22. Join us for a story and a song celebrating our planet in this video! Take a Nature Walk with your family to find some of our planet’s beautiful things!
Weekend Fun: Potato Print Eggs Spring is full of flowers, eggs, and new life – and it arrives during Youth Art Month! Celebrate art (and spring) with paper and paint and plenty of good books that feature art and artists. There are lots of interesting projects to try in Art […]
Weekend Fun: Mixed Media SunflowerMarch is Youth Art Month as well as Women’s History Month, so let’s have some fun with art history! One well-known woman artist is known for her large, close-up paintings of flowers – Georgia O’Keeffe. Here is one of her paintings, Oriental Poppies, painted in 1927 […]
Weekend Fun: Llama Drama! Llamas are similar to the camel, but They live an ocean (and a continent) away in the Andes mountains of South America. They also feature prominently in literature: Ariadna Dewdney’s Llama Llama series is popular with preschoolers. A storytime favorite of ours is Llama Destroys the […]
Weekend Fun: Peek-a-boo Flower! Spring is just over two weeks away – so get in the mood with some books about flowers, plants, and growing things. There are many at the library in both fiction and nonfiction. Learn about how a flower grows and get ready to plant some seeds […]
Weekend Fun: Numeral Face Off!There was an unusual day this week: On Tuesday, February 22, the numerals for the date were mostly 2s! It was the 22nd day of the second month in the year 2022 (the 22nd year of this century). Written in the American style, it was 2/22/2022, […]
Weekend Fun: Origami Envelope Book The library has many books on origami, the art of folding paper into three-dimensional objects, and there are many tutorials on the Internet as well. Have some book fun this weekend by making origami envelopes and turning them into a small book of treasures. How […]