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Author Katherine Applegate in a jean jacket with colorful necklace standing next to the picture book cover of Odder with a sea otter leaning its face against a paw while floating on its back in the Pacific Ocean. World Builders Book club Watch Party written underneath

World Builders Book Club Watch Party with Katherine Applegate

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club, Special Event
Age Group:
Children, Tweens

Join us for a watch party at the Library as award-winning author and summer reading champion Katherine Applegate talks to viewers about her enthusiastically heartwarming novel in verse, Odder.

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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Book Club, Special Event
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Join us for a watch party at the Library as award-winning author and summer reading champion Katherine Applegate talks to viewers about her enthusiastically heartwarming novel in verse, Odder.

Woman posing with cover of the book Odder

Author Talk - Living the Otter Life with Katherine Applegate (3rd-6th Grade)

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Online at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Author Talk, Virtual Event
Age Group:
Children, Tweens

Join us as award-winning author and summer reading champion Katherine Applegate talks to viewers about her enthusiastically heartwarming novel in verse, Odder. 

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Virtual Event
Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Online
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Author Talk, Virtual Event
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Join us as award-winning author and summer reading champion Katherine Applegate talks to viewers about her enthusiastically heartwarming novel in verse, Odder. 

Colorfully painted 2 dimensional gemstones in all shapes and sizes laid out on a black background

Color Your World: Giant Gemstones

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Children, Tweens

Strike it RICH!  Use the color wheel & oil pastels to create large, colorful gemstones. For ages 7-12. Registration required.

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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
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Strike it RICH!  Use the color wheel & oil pastels to create large, colorful gemstones. For ages 7-12. Registration required.

female librarian in glasses and sassy red shoes sits on a stool to read a book to 2 children with her ukelele next to her and a butterfly floating past, The texts Color Our World Storytime with a blue bird perching on them tops the page.

Storytime

Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Children, Preschool, Family

Brighten up your week and celebrate summer by joining Ms. Beth for colorful stories, fun songs, rhymes and activities that support school readiness. For ages 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Family
Program Type: Storytime
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Brighten up your week and celebrate summer by joining Ms. Beth for colorful stories, fun songs, rhymes and activities that support school readiness. For ages 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Get Going With STEM Engineering Text with constructed CD, cardboard and rubber band vehicle

Get Going With STEM: Vehicles

Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Workshop
Age Group:
Children, Tweens

Engineer vehicles powered by balloons and rubber bands and race them. For ages 7-12. Registration required.

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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Workshop
Registration Required
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Engineer vehicles powered by balloons and rubber bands and race them. For ages 7-12. Registration required.

female librarian in glasses and sassy red shoes sits on a stool to read a book to 2 children with her ukelele next to her and a butterfly floating past, The texts Color Our World Storytime with a blue bird perching on them tops the page.

Storytime

Thursday, July 3, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Children, Preschool, Family

Brighten up your week and celebrate summer by joining Ms. Beth for colorful stories, fun songs, rhymes and activities that support school readiness. For ages 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Family
Program Type: Storytime
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Brighten up your week and celebrate summer by joining Ms. Beth for colorful stories, fun songs, rhymes and activities that support school readiness. For ages 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Man and small child with a yellow ball python draped over their shoulders and the snake flickering its tongue close to the child's outstretched thumb's up.

Jack's Jungle

Thursday, July 3, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Special Event
Age Group:
Children, Preschool, Tweens, Teens, Family

Get nose to snoot with an American alligator and other furry & scaly creatures in this program with Jackson Baugus and his live animal friends!  All ages.

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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Tweens, Teens, Family
Program Type: Special Event
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Get nose to snoot with an American alligator and other furry & scaly creatures in this program with Jackson Baugus and his live animal friends!  All ages.

Man posing with cover of the book Vamos

Author Talk - Dibuja tu mundo con Raúl the Third (Preescolar a 2.º grado)

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Online at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Author Talk, Virtual Event
Age Group:
Children, Preschool

Acompaña al autor e ilustrador Raúl the Third mientras nos habla de su libro ¡Vamos! ¡A leer! Conoce a Lobito y sus amigos mientras exploran el Festival del Libro Love de su biblioteca.

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Virtual Event
Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Online
Age Group: Children, Preschool
Program Type: Author Talk, Virtual Event
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Acompaña al autor e ilustrador Raúl the Third mientras nos habla de su libro ¡Vamos! ¡A leer! Conoce a Lobito y sus amigos mientras exploran el Festival del Libro Love de su biblioteca.

Man posing with cover of the book Vamos

Author Talk - Drawing Your World with Raúl The Third (PK-2nd Grade)

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Online at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Author Talk, Virtual Event
Age Group:
Children, Preschool

Join author and illustrator Raúl The Third as he discusses his book ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Read!. Meet Little Lobo and friends as they explore their library's Libro Love Book Festival!

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Virtual Event
Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Online
Age Group: Children, Preschool
Program Type: Author Talk, Virtual Event
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Join author and illustrator Raúl The Third as he discusses his book ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Read!. Meet Little Lobo and friends as they explore their library's Libro Love Book Festival!

female librarian in glasses and sassy red shoes sits on a stool to read a book to 2 children with her ukelele next to her and a butterfly floating past, The texts Color Our World Storytime with a blue bird perching on them tops the page.

Storytime

Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Children, Preschool, Family

Brighten up your week and celebrate summer by joining Ms. Beth for colorful stories, fun songs, rhymes and activities that support school readiness. For ages 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Family
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Brighten up your week and celebrate summer by joining Ms. Beth for colorful stories, fun songs, rhymes and activities that support school readiness. For ages 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Cupcakes with colorful frosting set on art palettes filled by various colored candies.

Art on a Cupcake?

Saturday, July 12, 2025 at 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Special Event
Age Group:
Children, Tweens, Teens

Drop by the Library and make art you can eat (while the cupcakes last)! 1 cupcake per person. All ages.

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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Special Event
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Drop by the Library and make art you can eat (while the cupcakes last)! 1 cupcake per person. All ages.

Black top hat with red ribbon held upside down with a shower of golden stars coming from inside of it as a magic wand points to it.

It's Unbelievable! Magic Show

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Performance
Age Group:
Children, Preschool, Tweens, Family

Be astounded by the marvelous magic of Joe Romano! All ages.

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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Tweens, Family
Program Type: Performance
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Be astounded by the marvelous magic of Joe Romano! All ages.

female librarian in glasses and sassy red shoes sits on a stool to read a book to 2 children with her ukelele next to her and a butterfly floating past, The texts Color Our World Storytime with a blue bird perching on them tops the page.

Storytime

Thursday, July 17, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Children, Preschool, Family

Brighten up your week and celebrate summer by joining Ms. Beth for colorful stories, fun songs, rhymes and activities that support school readiness. For ages 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Family
Program Type: Storytime
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Brighten up your week and celebrate summer by joining Ms. Beth for colorful stories, fun songs, rhymes and activities that support school readiness. For ages 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Man posing with the cover of the book Free Lunch

Author Talk - Illuminating Hope and Grace in the Face of Hardship with Rex Ogle (5th-8th Grade)

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Online at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Author Talk, Virtual Event
Age Group:
Children, Tweens

You’re invited to join us online with award-winning author Rex Ogle as he talks to viewers about his struggles to navigate sixth grade as written about in his book Free Lunch. 

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Virtual Event
Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Online
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Author Talk, Virtual Event
Event Details:

You’re invited to join us online with award-winning author Rex Ogle as he talks to viewers about his struggles to navigate sixth grade as written about in his book Free Lunch. 

The front of a yellow school bus and the words welcome to the school bus bus tour and safety storytime with the library and ECPS logos

Welcome to the School Bus!

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 4:30pm - 5:45pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Special Event
Age Group:
Children, Preschool

Enjoy a fun bus story and song before touring a real school bus and learning about bus safety. For rising pre-K, kindergartners and 1st graders.

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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool
Program Type: Special Event
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Enjoy a fun bus story and song before touring a real school bus and learning about bus safety. For rising pre-K, kindergartners and 1st graders.

female librarian in glasses and sassy red shoes sits on a stool to read a book to 2 children with her ukelele next to her and a butterfly floating past, The texts Color Our World Storytime with a blue bird perching on them tops the page.

Storytime

Thursday, July 24, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Children, Preschool, Family

Brighten up your week and celebrate summer by joining Ms. Beth for colorful stories, fun songs, rhymes and activities that support school readiness. For ages 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Family
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Brighten up your week and celebrate summer by joining Ms. Beth for colorful stories, fun songs, rhymes and activities that support school readiness. For ages 8 and under with an adult caregiver.