Pasadena Public Library
Welcome to the Land of Oz! On April 11th, 2025 the Pasadena Public Library hosted an Emerald City Adventures event at the Villa Parke Community Center. For those with whimsy in their hearts, this free 2-hour event was designed to showcase the Villa Parke Community Center’s tenants as a unified […]
At three different branch locations, Pasadena Public Library hosts Barks & Books — a program designed for children to build confidence in reading aloud! With the cutest dogs as judgement-free audience members, children who struggle with reading aloud can practice their skills at Jefferson Branch Library, Santa Catalina Branch Library, and San […]
Can you balance a shoe on the tip of your nose? Well that was just one of the many whimsical antics enjoyed by dozens of children and their caregivers at the annual “End of Summer Reading Bash” held at Jefferson Branch Library, where the entertainment included giant bowling, an art […]
Art lovers who found themselves in the Pasadena area on the fateful evening of March 8th 2024, otherwise known as ‘ArtNight,’ had one more reason to rejoice this year: Jefferson Public Library participated in its very first ‘Art Night’ celebration, and the revelry included sneaky storybook characters, still-life painting, a […]
If you are trying to come up with fun strategies for getting children excited about learning you may want to use “twin texts.” This term refers to the use of fiction and nonfiction books to increase comprehension and build a foundation for critical thinking. Most think this only works with […]
We started this storytime talking about the weather. We talked about what the weather was outside today: And then I mentioned that in the storyroom, it was going to be a different type of weather (at least in our imaginations!), because we were reading stories all about snow! Books […]
This morning, we used stories and our imaginations to take a trip into outer space. And we had some help with this thanks to the “NASA @ My Library” program administered through the California State Library and Southern California Library Cooperative. NASA sent us some fun materials to use and […]
Today we read about baby animals and the kids got to meet a cute kangaroo puppet and her joey! Books We Shared Next To You: A Book of Adorableness, by Lori Haskins Houran and pictures by Sydney Hanson, gives a laundry list of cute, big-eyed, fluffy baby animals and explains […]
Read the story that won 1st Place in the Children’s Category for our Fractured Films Writing Contest–a Triassic take on the movie “Jurassic Park” written by Joel Mason Griffin! The judges loved the action and suspense, and I think you will, too! […]
We read about jobs during our Preschool Storytime! Everybody thought about the jobs they might like to do when they grow up! We also read a book about a frog who didn’t really like the job of being a frog. (He does change his mind in the end though.) Here are the books, songs, guessing […]