CHILDREN'S STORY TIMES
at the
MARK TWAIN LIBRARY

The Library offers four sessions of story times for children throughout the year. Story times held during the fall, winter, and spring require pre-registration. Story times held during the summer do not require pre-registration.

A full schedule of story times is offered in the fall, winter and spring. Each session runs for six weeks, and provides classes for residents who are the following ages.

Mother Goose:
for children 12-24 months
30 minutes of rhymes, music and active play
must be accompanied by an adult
held Wednesdays at 10:30 am

Two-year-olds
45 minutes of play, books, crafts, music or short book-based video
must be accompanied by an adult
held Mondays at 11:30 am; Wednesdays at 10:30 and 11:30 am, Thursdays at 10:30 am

Three-and-four-year-olds (and pre-kindergarten five-year-olds)
45 minutes of listening to stories, making crafts, singing or viewing book-based videos
child participates without grownup
held Tuesdays at 10:30 am and 1 pm; Wednesdays at 1 pm; and Thursdays at 1 pm

Kindergarten through Second Grade
Story times for elementary-school-age children are 45 minutes long; children listen to longer stories; concludes with a short book-based film
held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4 pm

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This full schedule of story times will be offered three times during the 2008-2009 year, on the following dates:

FALL

story times offered September 29 - November 7, 2008

registration starts on Tuesday, September 2, 2008

WINTER

story times offered January 5 - February 12, 2009

registration starts on Monday, December 1, 2008

SPRING

story times offered March 16 - April 30, 2009

(no story times during week of the Redding schools' April vacation)

registration starts on Monday, February 23, 2009

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Children may be signed up for only one six-week set of classes during a given session.

They must be the specified age for the story time at the time classes start

These story times are intended for Redding residents.

In the event of bad weather - a concern during winter months - classes are cancelled only if Redding public schools close for the day. (Delayed openings do not affect the story time schedule.)

Since the library is open on most holidays, we do schedule story times on those dates. (If this causes a conflict because older children are home from school, please feel free to bring older siblings with you to the story time.)

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SUMMER

A limited number of story times are offered during the summer. They run concurrently with the library's Summer Reading program, for a six-week period.

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PAJAMA STORY TIMES

"Pajama" story times are held four times during the year, always on Monday evenings, in the months of September, November, March and June. Specific dates will be posted a few weeks beforehand on the Children's department bulletin board at the library as well as here on the website; registration is required due to limited space.

Pajama Story Times on Monday September 8 or Monday September 15 from 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM.
Call or visit the library to sign up.