Dinosaurs Visiting Chatham Library To Share Their Love Of Reading

CHATHAM, NJ — Looking for a fun way to reinforce a love of reading in your young student? What about having a dinosaur tell them that reading is fun?

Dinosaurs from The Filed Station's Dinosaur Troubadour will be visiting 13 libraries across New Jersey this June, including the Library of the Chathams, to encourage summer reading. Children will be able to sing and dance to original songs about dinosaurs, and meet a "real" 15 foot tall Tyrannosaurus rex.

“My love of dinosaurs came from some great books about them that I read during summers as a youngster right here in New Jersey,” said Guy Gsell, Executive Producer of Field Station: Dinosaurs. “Our Dinosaur Troubadour and our incredible T-rex are on a mission to share that same excitement about reading that I felt as a child and that’s why we love being part of the summer reading program.”

This is the sixth year Field Station: Dinosaurs have supported the New Jersey summer reading program. The theme for this year is "Build A Better World."

You can find a full schedule of dates here:

• June 9 at 3:30 p.m., Leonia Public Library, 22 Fort Lee Road, Leonia
• June 12 at 4:00 p.m., Library of the Chathams, 214 Main Street, Chatham Township
• June 13 at 4:00 p.m., Fort Lee Public Library, 320 Main Street, Fort Lee
• June 15 at 4:00 p.m., Clifton Public Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton
• June 15 at 5:30 p.m., Alfred H. Baumann Library, 7 Brophy Lane, Woodland Park
• June 16 at 4:00 p.m., Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton
• June 19 at 4:00 p.m., Hoboken Public Library, 500 Park Avenue, Hoboken
• June 20 at 11:30 a.m., Red Bank Public Library, 84 W Front Street, Red Bank
• June 20 at 4:00 p.m., Glen Ridge Public Library, 240 Ridgewood Avenue, Glen Ridge

Image via Valerie Everett, Flickr

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