Children’s Programs

*Story Time Registration: Registration for the next sessions of story hours will run March 27 to April 4 in the children’s department.

Story hour is a program of stories, songs and simple crafts for children 2-5 years of age.

Classes for 2-3 year olds meet weekly on Mondays at 10 and 11 am, Tuesday at 10 am, and Wednesday at 10 am. Classes for 3-5 year olds meet on Tuesday at 11 am Wednesday and Thursday at 1 pm, and Saturday at 11 am.

Children must be 2 or 3 years of age on or before April 10 to be eligible for this session. Open to Newtown residents only; no phone registrations will be accepted.  For more information call 426-3851.

 

Programs For Young Adults

*There are three spaces left in the YA Creative Writing Group forming for a spring session. Participants can write about some of their life experiences in Tales of a Newtown Something.

The group will be led by Humanities teacher and Newtown resident Julie Stern. It is limited to ten Newtown students in grade 6 and up. Participants are expected to attend all five sessions, which will meet on five Mondays from 6 to 8 pm: March 20 and 27, and April 3, 10 and 24. Sign up at the Main Floor Circulation Desk or call 426-4533.

*YA Book Talk: Let’s talk about Vampire High by Douglas Rees, a 2007 YA Nutmeg nominee. Our next young adult book discussion will be on Wednesday, April 5, from 4 to 5 pm, in the Story Room.

Cody’s dreary new high school is a drag. His grades are bad and he has trouble making friends. Everything becomes more interesting when Cody realizes he is in a school full of vampires!

These monthly book discussions for readers in grades 5-9, or any young person who has read the book, and are co-sponsored by Reed Intermediate School. Copies of the books are available at both libraries.

Sign up at Booth Library’s main floor circulation desk or call 426-4533.

Adult Programs

*Fun Creations with Digital Photography: Join us on Saturday, March 18, from 10 to 11:30 am, and learn how to make personalized calendars, baseball cards, pop-up cards and a slideshow. Participants will be using Adobe Photoshop elements and Microsoft Moviemaker, which is included in Windows XP software.

Space is still available.

*How To Eat A Truffle: Maria Poirer Brandriff will give a lecture and demonstration celebrating chocolate on Wednesday, March 22, at 7 pm.

The demonstration will focus mainly on the making of hand-rolled and dipped chocolate truffles. Participants will sample the chocolate candies and compare several types of chocolate, both imported and domestic.

*Independent Film Series: The series will continue with Drifters on April 4. In Drifters would-be immigrant Er Di is back in China, expelled from the United States for working illegally.  While in the US he has fathered a child, and when his American born son comes to China for a visit, Er Di is barred from seeing him.

The May feature will be Agata and the Storm: When Agata, the popular bookshop proprietor and dispenser of sunny wisdom in the form of books is suddenly wooed by a man half her age, her electricity hits high voltage. Yet it is Agata’s joy and magnetism in the face of life in all its irony that eventually offers the eye of the storm.

Screenings are free, and all begin at 7:30 pm. Fliers with descriptions for each of the films are available at the library.

*Spring Cleaning! Get a jump start on your spring cleaning and help the library at the same time.

Donate books that are cluttering your shelves and crowding your attic to The Friends of C.H. Booth Library Book Sale. We need more books! It is the generous donations of Newtowners that helps to make our book sale such a success.

*Book Nook News: An abundance of Irish folk tales and book by Irish authors are featured in The Book Nook, located on the library’s main floor near the circulation desk.

“May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door.” —an Irish blessing

C.H. Booth Library, at 25 Main Street in Newtown, can be reached by calling 426-4533.