Children’s Programs

*Register for Story Time:  Registration for the next session of Story Time will run August 25 to September 5.

Children must be at least 3 years old on or before September 16 and a resident of Newtown to be eligible for our free story times. Classes will meet weekly beginning the week of September 14, and will run for six weeks.

There are four options available:  Monday or Tuesday at 10 am, or Monday or Wednesday at 1 pm. Register in person at the children’s circulation desk.

*Mother Goose II, just for 2 year olds: Children age 24-36 months old will have their own drop in program of songs, rhymes, music, movement, flannel board activities and simple books beginning Thursday, September 17, at 10 am.

No registration is required, but this program is limited to Newtown residents only please. 

*Mother Goose on the Loose: Mother Goose on the Loose continues to meet every Wednesday morning at 10 in the library meeting room. Open to Newtown residents, this award winning program of rhymes, music, and movement is geared for very young children ages birth to two. No registration is necessary.

 Young Adult

For full details & signups for YA programs, see the YAWebSpot at biblio.org/Yawebspot.

Program signups can also be made through the Calendar on the library homepage (CHBoothLibrary.org). Go to the program date or the date that a series of programs begins.

Adult Programs

*Behind the Crimes is a new a four part mystery discussion with CHB’s favorite professor, Julie Stern.

We’ll be reading four mysteries in which the authors recreate social conflicts and cultural issues that shape the characters and define a particular time and place. From the carefully negotiated relationship between Afrikaaner police lieutenant Tromp Kraemer, and his Zulu sergeant, Micky Zondi, during the era of South African Apartheid in James McClure’s The Steam Pig (September 16), to efforts of Navajo tribal policeman Jim Chee’s desire to reconcile his modern education with Native American tradition in Tony Hillerman’s Skinwalkers (September 30), from the emotional disconnect that alienates Smila Jaspersen, born out of a temporary liason between a wealthy Copenhagan surgeon and a primitive Intuit woman in Peter Hoeg’s Smila’s Sense of Snow (October 21) to the violent mix of mobsters, underpaid police officers, Cajuns, poor Blacks, and Neo-Nazis who populate New Orleans in James Lee Burke’s Dixie City Jam (November 4), these great reads are highly satisfying crime novels.

They provide vivid pictures of a world different from our own, affording plenty of substance for a lively discussion. Programs will begin at 7:30 pm, and we ask that registration be done online.

*Author Talk: So You Want To Go Where?

Jeff Blumenfeld, editor and publisher of Expedition News, will visit the library to discuss his latest book, So You Want to Go Where? How to Get Someone to Pay for the Trip of Your Dreams on Tuesday, September 22, at 7 pm.

Please sign up on the library website.

*New Writing Group for Adults: Writer and journalist Georgia Monaghan is starting a group for writers at the library, which will meet the fourth Monday of each month. Space is limited to ten participants.

The first meeting will be Monday, September 28, from 7 to 9 pm.

Please sign up online or by calling the library.

 *Chess Club continues to meet all summer with Glenn Budzinski. It’s for all ages, and boards and pieces are provided.

Drop in and play chess on Saturday afternoons from 1 to 5 pm on the third floor.

*Videos Sale: The adult department is busy selling off a number of its VHS tapes, for $2 each.

Stop by the circulation desk on the second floor to view the selections.

 C.H. Booth Library is at 25 Main Street in Newtown. Call 426-4533 or visit CHBoothLibrary.org for information on these and future programs and offerings.