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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

September: Richard Scarry

3:30 pm

Join us in the Forest Transformation Room where a multi-generational story is read aloud.
Gwen Diane, and a group of volunteers will take turns reading from a classic Fairy Tale that will appeal to children ages 6 and up, teenagers, and adults.
 
Please let Gwen know if you would like to read part of the story!

Join us for a multi-sensory story hour designed to engage young children through interactive storytelling, music, movement, and connecting with others. Led by Elena Fader Hurlburt, Speech-Language Pathologist, this program supports early literacy and communication development in a playful, inclusive environment. Target audience is ages 3-6, siblings welcome.

Summer dates: 6/2, 6/16, 6/30

Join us *twice a month this summer* for a morning story time with 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.

Summer dates: 6/9, 6/23, 7/7, 7/21, 8/4, 8/18

Join us for a multi-sensory story hour designed to engage young children through interactive storytelling, music, movement, and connecting with others. Led by Elena Fader Hurlburt, Speech-Language Pathologist, this program supports early literacy and communication development in a playful, inclusive environment. Target audience is ages 3-6, siblings welcome.

Summer dates: 6/2, 6/16, 6/30

Join community member and Friend of the Library, Miss Jeannie, for three special summer story and craft programs. Wear clothes to get messy and meet downstairs in the Story Room first, then create artwork by Marcel or outside. 

Summer dates: Fridays at 11am; June 27, July 18, August 8

Join us *twice a month this summer* for a morning story time with 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.

Summer dates: 6/9, 6/23, 7/7, 7/21, 8/4, 8/18

**This program has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date**

This program emphasizes the value of nature and rural places. 

Gwen Diane will be reading The Little House: Her Story, a classic children’s picture book by Virginia Lee Burton. This delightful book illustrates many changes that a house far out in the country witnesses over time with the turning seasons. Listeners will learn about the passage of time and thankfulness for what we now have.

Following the reading, participants of all ages can draw their favorite home in their own artistic style, using JTL's art supplies. If you'd like, you may bring a photo of the home you plan to draw, whether your own home or a home that you visit and love. We will also have copies of coloring sheets from the story book available.

Ages 4+; no pre-registration necessary.

Join us for a multi-sensory story hour designed to engage young children through interactive storytelling, music, movement, and connecting with others. Led by Elena Fader Hurlburt, Speech-Language Pathologist, this program supports early literacy and communication development in a playful, inclusive environment. Target audience is ages 3-6, siblings welcome.

Summer dates: 6/2, 6/16, 6/30

Join us *twice a month this summer* for a morning story time with 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.

Summer dates: 6/9, 6/23, 7/7, 7/21, 8/4, 8/18

Join us for a special all ages family read aloud of a classic fairy tale, The Plain Princess. We will meet in the Story Room to read and discuss this beautiful book published in 1945 with long-lasting enjoyment for all.

FOR ALL AGES 6 and up. It is a story of the main character's transformational journey in many ways, not just on the surface, from selfishness to selflessness, from haughty to kind and generous, from "plain" or ordinary, to beautiful. Is it true magic that causes the 3 different powerful magical transformations once for each of three months that the formerly "plain" girl lives in the cottage with the good widow and her 5 beautiful accomplished daughters?  Is it Love? Is it humility? Is it about finding the true meaning in life that changes one inwardly and outwardly? If one becomes a truly good person does that change how they look or how they are perceived? 

This is an especially thought provoking story for ages 6 to 18. Parents welcome to listen too. The story is not too short. It takes a captivating 35 minutes for Gwen to to read aloud with discussion to follow. Three are some lovely color illustrations that enhance the powerful story.

Join community member and Friend of the Library, Miss Jeannie, for three special summer story and craft programs. Wear clothes to get messy and meet downstairs in the Story Room first, then create artwork by Marcel or outside. 

Bring your own beloved stuffed animal to a classic Teddy Bear Picnic with Miss Jeannie on July 18!

Summer dates: Fridays at 11am; June 27, July 18, August 8

This summer, Lebanon Elementary School (LES) is partnering with the Jonathan Trumbull Library (JTL) by providing family read alouds!
Join Heather Lyon in the Pollinator Garden for story time. 
 
Rain/excessive heat location: Inside the Community Room

This summer, Lebanon Elementary School (LES) is partnering with the Jonathan Trumbull Library (JTL) by providing family read alouds!
Join Jan Gervais in the Pollinator Garden for story time. 
 
Rain/excessive heat location: Inside the Community Room

Join us for a multi-sensory story hour designed to engage young children through interactive storytelling, music, movement, and connecting with others. Led by Elena Fader Hurlburt, Speech-Language Pathologist, this program supports early literacy and communication development in a playful, inclusive environment. Target audience is ages 3-6, siblings welcome.

Summer dates: 6/2, 6/16, 6/30

This summer, Lebanon Elementary School (LES) is partnering with the Jonathan Trumbull Library (JTL) by providing family read alouds!
Join Mrs. Allaire & Mrs. Brochu in the Pollinator Garden for story time. 
 
Rain/excessive heat location: Inside the Community Room

Join us *twice a month this summer* for a morning story time with 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.

Summer dates: 6/9, 6/23, 7/7, 7/21, 8/4, 8/18

Join us for a multi-sensory story hour designed to engage young children through interactive storytelling, music, movement, and connecting with others. Led by Elena Fader Hurlburt, Speech-Language Pathologist, this program supports early literacy and communication development in a playful, inclusive environment. Target audience is ages 3-6, siblings welcome.

Summer dates: 6/2, 6/16, 6/30

Join community member and Friend of the Library, Miss Jeannie, for three special summer story and craft programs. Wear clothes to get messy and meet downstairs in the Story Room first, then create artwork by Marcel or outside. 

Summer dates: Fridays at 11am; June 27, July 18, August 8

Join us *twice a month this summer* for a morning story time with 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.

Summer dates: 6/9, 6/23, 7/7, 7/21, 8/4, 8/18

Join us for a multi-sensory story hour designed to engage young children through interactive storytelling, music, movement, and connecting with others. Led by Elena Fader Hurlburt, Speech-Language Pathologist, this program supports early literacy and communication development in a playful, inclusive environment. Target audience is ages 3-6, siblings welcome.

Summer dates: 6/2, 6/16, 6/30, 7/14, 7/28, 8/11, 8/25

Join us *twice a month this summer* for a morning story time with 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.

Summer dates: 6/9, 6/23, 7/7, 7/21, 8/4, 8/18

Join us for a multi-sensory story hour designed to engage young children through interactive storytelling, music, movement, and connecting with others. Led by Elena Fader Hurlburt, Speech-Language Pathologist, this program supports early literacy and communication development in a playful, inclusive environment. Target audience is ages 3-6, siblings welcome.

Summer dates: 6/2, 6/16, 6/30, 7/14, 7/28, 8/11, 8/25