Read, Rock & Rhyme with MG, our tried and true story time for the tiniest of library people, continues weekly in the Community Room. Join us to share songs, rhymes, musical instruments, movement and more. Open play and social time available at the end of the program.

RR&R is for children ages 0 - 3 years & their caregivers.

Please pick up your tickets for the program on Wednesday morning at the Adult Circulation Desk to make sure you get a spot in the circle. First come, first served; 80 spots available.

JTL's Community Room will have the Ukulele Ensemble play seasonal tunes immediately following the lighting of the Christmas Tree.

Stop in to listen, flip through a holiday book, make a craft or take one home with you for later.

Parade begins at 5 PM.

No Read, Rock, & Rhyme this week.

Multi-generational Cribbage Club.

Experienced and novice players welcome (recommended for ages 9+). Bring your own cribbage sets or use ours.

JTL is excited to partner with Waldron's Studio 88 in Mansfield for a brand new program: One Hour Production! Join MG and Teresa Waldron, music and arts educator, the third Friday of the month for creativity and performance. We will read a story, act it out, set it to music, and perform it for our family and friends. Some instruments and art supplies provided; please bring your own if you have some experience using them. Actors, musicians, and stage crew of all experience levels welcome. Never played a drum before? Great, come and try it out! Always wanted to be a puppeteer? This is for you!

This month’s OHP! involves rain and adventure

This program is designed for kindergarten through sixth grade. 3:30-4:30 is the workshop. Families join to see what the kids created together right at 4:30. 

Registration required; call the library (860) 642-7763 or stop in and ask at the Adult Circulation Desk.

Jeannie is back with seasonal read alouds, puppets, crafts, and library joy! All ages, all families welcome to drop in, no registration required.

2025-2026 Dates: 
Sept. 26, Oct. 31, Nov. 21*, Dec. 19*, Jan. 30, Feb. 27, Mar. 27, Apr. 24, May 29.
* denotes third Friday, rather than last Friday, due to holiday season.

Read, Rock & Rhyme with MG, our tried and true story time for the tiniest of library people, continues weekly in the Community Room. Join us to share songs, rhymes, musical instruments, movement and more. Open play and social time available at the end of the program.

RR&R is for children ages 0 - 3 years & their caregivers.

As of Fall 2025, please pick up your tickets for the program on Wednesday morning at the Adult Circulation Desk to make sure you get a spot in the circle. First come, first served; 80 spots available.

Welcome to Picture Book Club, JTL's Multigenerational book club for children and their grown ups to gather monthly on the Third Tuesday and enjoy reading together. Join Youth Services Librarian, MG, down in the Story Room where we'll have a read aloud together and explore the Juvenile Picture Book (JPIC) collection.

This program is designed for children ages 3-6 and their caregivers.

November's book is We're Going on a Bear Hunt, written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury.

Marcel, JTL's Red Eared Slider, is having a party and you're invited. We're celebrating the anniversary of adopting our feisty turtle lady (Thanksgiving 2021). Join us down in the children's library by the turtle tank to learn about Marcel and other turtles. 

This year's party will feature reptile and human guests from The Reptile Nook.

In lieu of gifts, Marcel requests that you please donate to DEEP certified turtle rescuer, wildlife custodian, and librarian turtle mentor: Tessa Stuart and The Turtle Underground. https://givebutter.com/G0NcI4 

Read, Rock & Rhyme with MG, our tried and true story time for the tiniest of library people, continues weekly in the Community Room. Join us to share songs, rhymes, musical instruments, movement and more. Open play and social time available at the end of the program.

RR&R is for children ages 0 - 3 years & their caregivers.

As of Fall 2025, please pick up your tickets for the program on Wednesday morning at the Adult Circulation Desk to make sure you get a spot in the circle. First come, first served; 80 spots available.

Everyone’s different; let’s be different together!

A monthly, meet-up group for multi-age neurodivergent, special needs, all-abilities children. Join Occupational Therapist Miss Shaleen for open-ended play and activities for the children, community building with the parents, caregivers, and siblings. Each month, we will explore fine and gross motor skills as well as sensory activities connected to a monthly theme.  

This All-Inclusive Playgroup meets the second Saturday of each month at 10 am.

Read, Rock & Rhyme with MG, our tried and true story time for the tiniest of library people, continues weekly in the Community Room. Join us to share songs, rhymes, musical instruments, movement and more. Open play and social time available at the end of the program.

RR&R is for children ages 0 - 3 years & their caregivers.

As of Fall 2025, please pick up your tickets for the program on Wednesday morning at the Adult Circulation Desk to make sure you get a spot in the circle. First come, first served; 80 spots available.

Afterschool Animal Halloween Hangs! (AAHH!)

Come by JTL in costume to greet spooky animals with the Reptile Nook.

Stop by the library for our afterschool Halloween antics! Costumes encouraged (no weapon accessories, please), and candy treats available thanks to our Friends of the Library. Visit with Marcel and some of her animal friends from Reptile Nook, stop by the Story Room and sign up to get your face or hand painted with autumn or Halloween art, and as always, choose books for your weekend reading.

Jeannie is back with seasonal read alouds, puppets, crafts, and library joy! All ages, all families welcome to drop in, no registration required.

2025-2026 Dates: 
Sept. 26, Oct. 31, Nov. 21*, Dec. 19*, Jan. 30, Feb. 27, Mar. 27, Apr. 24, May 29.
* denotes third Friday, rather than last Friday, due to holiday season.

Read, Rock & Rhyme with MG, our tried and true story time for the tiniest of library people, continues weekly in the Community Room. Join us to share songs, rhymes, musical instruments, movement and more. Open play and social time available at the end of the program.

RR&R is for children ages 0 - 3 years & their caregivers.

As of Fall 2025, please pick up your tickets for the program on Wednesday morning at the Adult Circulation Desk to make sure you get a spot in the circle. First come, first served; 80 spots available.

Multi-generational Cribbage Club.

Experienced and novice players welcome (recommended for ages 9+). Bring your own cribbage sets or use ours.

Read, Rock & Rhyme with MG, our tried and true story time for the tiniest of library people, continues weekly in the Community Room. Join us to share songs, rhymes, musical instruments, movement and more. Open play and social time available at the end of the program.

RR&R is for children ages 0 - 3 years & their caregivers.

As of Fall 2025, please pick up your tickets for the program on Wednesday morning at the Adult Circulation Desk to make sure you get a spot in the circle. First come, first served; 80 spots available.

Welcome to Picture Book Club, JTL's multigenerational book club for children and their grown-ups to gather monthly on the Third Tuesday and enjoy reading together. Join Youth Services Librarian, MG, down in the Story Room where we'll have a read-aloud together, explore the Juvenile Picture Book (JPIC) collection, Show and Tell about our favorite reads, and spread out across the children's library for book bonding.

October: Carson Ellis, Du Iz Tak?

JTL is excited to partner with Waldron's Studio 88 in Mansfield for a brand new program: One Hour Production! Join MG and Teresa Waldron, music and arts educator, the third Friday of the month for creativity and performance. We will read a story, act it out, set it to music, and perform it for our family and friends. Some instruments and art supplies provided; please bring your own if you have some experience using them. Actors, musicians, and stage crew of all experience levels welcome. Never played a drum before? Great, come and try it out! Always wanted to be a puppeteer? This is for you!

October's story features a Giant, a prankster, magic, and music.

This program is designed for kindergarten through sixth grade. 3:30-4:30 is the workshop. Families join to see what the kids created together right at 4:30. 

Registration required; call the library (860) 642-7763 or stop in and ask at the Adult Circulation Desk.

No Read, Rock, & Rhyme this week.

Come to the library to see our Volunteer Fire Department vehicles and people during Fire Prevention Month. Learn about fire safety, ask questions, meet your local fire fighters and first responders dressed in their uniforms and with their vehicles.

Please note: The library will open one hour late, at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, October 14th.

Drop-in dance for ages 3-5. Join Miss Chloe on the second Tuesday of the month for introduction to ballet and free movement. Wear comfy clothes (tutu optional!), hair pulled back from face, socks or dance slippers.

5/13/25, 6/10, 7/8, 8/12, 9/9, 10/14, (no November program), 12/9

Everyone’s different; let’s be different together.

A monthly, meet-up group for multi-age neurodivergent, special needs, all-abilities children. Join Occupational Therapist Miss Shaleen for open-ended play and activities for the children, community building with the parents, caregivers, and siblings. Each month, we will explore fine and gross motor skills as well as sensory activities connected to a monthly theme.  

This All-Inclusive Playgroup meets the second Saturday of each month at 10 am.

Join Dr. Gwen, botanist, to learn about basic tree identification (based on branching patterns and leaf shape) and the mechanisms behind the science of autumn. We will discuss the reason for the appearance of leaf color in the fall. Bring your questions about trees and your walking shoes as we will, weather permitting, walk a small section of the Green.

Gwen will have colorful leaf samples on display and can lend binoculars of all sizes for us to peer into the tree canopy. Learn the MAD Cap acronym and identification (an easy-to-remember summary from college botany classes.)

Then we’ll head back indoors to the community room to each create our own colorful autumnal educational leaf sheet with preserved, identified and labelled leaves (provided). In a botanical library, or herbarium, dried pressed plants are organized and labelled, like books in a library, and we’ll go home with our own herbarium sheets.

This is a multigenerational program, and all ages are welcome. 

One sheet per person.

Please meet in the community room at Jonathan Trumbull Library at 3:30 PM.

Join us for a morning story time with Miss Shaleen Barrett, Occupational Therapist and Signing Time Certified Teacher. Join us for stories, felt board, songs, and best of all, PLAY! 

Target audience is ages 3-6; siblings welcome.

Read, Rock & Rhyme with MG, our tried and true story time for the tiniest of library people, continues weekly in the Community Room. Join us to share songs, rhymes, musical instruments, movement and more. Open play and social time available at the end of the program.

RR&R is for children ages 0 - 3 years & their caregivers.

As of Fall 2025, please pick up your tickets for the program on Wednesday morning at the Adult Circulation Desk to make sure you get a spot in the circle. First come, first served; 80 spots available.

Read, Rock & Rhyme with MG, our tried and true story time for the tiniest of library people, continues weekly in the Community Room. Join us to share songs, rhymes, musical instruments, movement and more. Open play and social time available at the end of the program.

RR&R is for children ages 0 - 3 years & their caregivers.

As of Fall 2025, please pick up your tickets for the program at the Adult Circulation Desk to make sure you get a spot in the circle. First come, first served; 80 spots available.

Join us for a ballet story time. Youth Services Librarian, MG, will read The Story Orchestra: Sleeping Beauty, and dancers from Thread City Classical Dance will perform variations from the ballet and teach some movements for us to do together. Wear comfortable clothing or dance attire, and we'll have temporary tutus made from scarves and ribbon for you to use while you're here!

Jeannie is back with seasonal read alouds, puppets, crafts, and library joy! All ages, all families welcome to drop in, no registration required.

2025-2026 Dates: 
Sept. 26, Oct. 31, Nov. 21*, Dec. 19*, Jan. 30, Feb. 27, Mar. 27, Apr. 24, May 29.
* denotes third Friday, rather than last Friday, due to holiday season.