Fall into Storytime at the Library

Playful Preschooler's Storytime

Register your 4-5 year olds for age-appropriate stories, songs, rhymes, and snacks or a simple craft. Storytimes are followed by a playtime!  Take this opportunity to connect with other parents and caregivers while your child plays with new friends.

4-5 year olds on Tuesdays at 11am

This 4 week session begins on September 6th and runs until September 27th. 

Toddler Time

Toddler Time is a special storytime for 2 & 3 year olds

with a parent or caregiver. 

Storytimes consist of age-appropriate stories, songs, fingerplays, and rhymes, with a simple craft or snack. 

Toddlers can enjoy a playtime following storytime, while parents and caregivers socialize.

2-3 year olds on Thursdays at 11am

This 4 week session begins on September 8^th and runs until September 29^th.  

Please call or visit the Children’s Department at 846-1573 to register for either of these free programs!    

Summer Reading Program Wrap-Up

It was a successful year for our Summer Reading Program, "One World, Many Stories".  Over 215 children in grades PreS-Grade 6 registered for the summer reading program and together read over 1,455 books as of August 17th!

If you have not finished your reading log, it's not too late!  Our Summer Reading Program Finale Party was on Wednesday, August 17th, but children have until September 1st to complete their reading logs and pick-up their reading certificate, prize bag, and free book.

Homework Help at the Library

One of the greatest resources that the library can offer is homework and research help.  How?  Through the incredible online databases, books, and other resources that we can provide for you at the library and through our website.

With our help, we'll show you how to navigate the web to find credible websites to use for your school report, as well as show you how to use multiple databases to find scholarly articles, journals, primary documents, and encyclopedias that you can use for that paper you need to write.  Below is a listing of resources that are better than anything you will ever find on Wikipedia:



Homework Help RI
Connects you to free, live tutors online.  Five different centers, the Student Center, College Center, Adult Education Centers, Career Center, and ProofPoint Writing Center offer a wide range of services.  For example, the Student Center can help with studying for exams and homework help, while the College Center is ideal for students needing exam prep, finding a job, and reviewing course work.    

World Book
Provides encyclopedic articles, videos, pictures, and maps that your teacher will appreciate more than that entry you found on Wikipedia.  Includes World Book Kids, World Book Student, World Book Advanced, and many other options.

Student Research Center 
Searches through magazines, books and encyclopedias, biographies, radio and TV news transcripts, country reports, state/ province reports, primary source documents, photos, flags, maps, film and videos.  A great database with many ways to search for what you are looking for!

Kids Search and Searchasaurus

Colorful, easy to use websites that are great for younger students who are looking for information on topics such as animals, arts and music, geography and history, health, news, language arts, math, science, social studies, and sports. 

Mango Languages

Parlez-vous francais?  If you'd like to learn French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or any of the other 34 languages offered on Mango, then this site can help you with lessons, reviews, and quizzes so that you'll be on your way to being fluent in the language that you've always wanted to learn.

These resources are available through  AskRI and EBSCOhost.  They can be accessed through our library homepage by clicking on the logo's featured below. 

Certain databases may ask for you library card to sign in.  For a FREE library card, please visit your local library with a photo ID and proof of Rhode Island residency.    

Summer Reading Finale Party

The Great Baldini and his beautiful skeleton assistant, Skinny, will be taking us on a magical tour of our planet. You'll laugh, learn, and be amazed by different tricks from every continent. The Great Baldini has been entertaining folks for years through his unique style of humor and magic. Along with Skinny, he'll be sharing stories from many of the different countries of the world.

When: Wednesday, August 17th at 11am

Ages: 4 and up

Price: FREE

Tickets are required; please pick up your free tickets in the Children's Room at the library

We will also be awarding the Summer Reading Program reading awards and prize bags during this program!  If you cannot attend this program, you can visit us later until September 1st and we will give you your prize bag at that time!  

The Great Baldini