Greenwich Library to Host Take Your Child to the Library Day

Greenwich Library and its branches will celebrate the fifth annual Take Your Child to the Library Day on Saturday.

Children of all ages and their families are invited to visit the Library and enjoy a day of activities while learning about Library resources and programs. Whether it’s your child’s first visit to the library or their 1000th, ‘Take Your Child to the Library Day’ celebrates literacy, learning and community.

Begin the day at the Cos Cob Library with a Mad Science performance of Spin, Pop, Boom on Saturday, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Community Room. Learn about chemical reactions and the greatness of gravity. Volunteers will be asked to help activate an erupting foam volcano.

Then from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., the Friends of Cos Cob Library will host their Annual Valentine Workshop. All the supplies needed to make cards will be provided. Make cards for family, plus one extra-special card for a resident of The Nathaniel Witherell nursing home. Call (203) 622-6883 for more information.

Byram Shubert Library will offer A Book and a Slice at noon on Saturday. Come read a favorite book and enjoy a slice of pizza. Call 203-531-0462 for more information.

The Main Library will present Sciencetellers from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, in the Cole Auditorium. Sciencetellers combines storytelling and exciting science experiments into a theatrical learning experience. There will be interactive and explosive experiments with dry ice, fog, smoke-filled bubbles, flying rockets and more. Recommended for ages 4 and up; no tickets required. Doors open at 12:45 p.m.

For more information on Take Your Child to the Library Day activities, visit www.greenwichlibrary.org/Children or contact Director of Children’s Services Deirdre Sullivan at dsullivan@greenwichlibrary.org or call 203-622-7940.