Unbelievable Bats: Story Time - Ages 2 - 4
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Bats are mosquito-eating mammals that are nature’s helpers. Learn bat facts and have fun with simple bat crafts and activities. Themed story times for ages 2 – 4 are every Monday at 10:30, June 30 – August 4. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Middle School Movie: The Golden Compass
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Lyra Belacqua is an orphan who lives happily among the halls of Jordan College, Oxford. When Lyra overhears the professors discussing a mysterious substance called Dust, which is rumored to possess profound properties that could unite the whole universe, she heads off on an adventure that puts her in the company with clans, gyptians and formidable armored bears in this fantasy adventure. Rated: PG-13.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Whiton Room
Parachute Games - Ages 3 - 4
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
We’re opening the parachute for fun activities and silly songs. We’ll play ball roll, popcorn, the ocean, and lots of other adventurous parachute games. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
A Sidewalk Chalk Afternoon
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
We’re redecorating! Help us add some color to the walkways outside the children’s entrance. Stop in anytime between 1 and 4 in the afternoon and add a picture to our sidewalk. We’ll have sidewalk chalk to lend, or you can bring your own. No registration is necessary for this program and all ages are welcome to join in.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Front Lawn
Judy's Tune Room
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
One of New England’s favorite children's singer-songwriters, Judy Pancoast, will present her musical program ‘Where the Really Wild Things Are’ featuring some of her wildest and most interactive songs, including ‘Wild One,’ ‘Swimming in Jello’ and ‘One Big Eyeball’. Come prepared to celebrate reading with your dancing shoes on! Please call to register beginning June 23.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Whiton Room
Great Books Meeting
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Lillian Neville 781-749-0744
Location: Fearing Room
Unbelievable Bats: Story Time - Ages 5 - 7
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Bats are mosquito-eating mammals that are nature’s helpers. Learn bat facts and have fun with bat crafts and activities. Themed story times for ages 5 – 7 are every Wednesday at 10:30, July 2 – August 6. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Fun With Finger Paint - Ages 6 - 9
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Make beautiful summer art with your fingers on our giant paper canvas, use sponges and other objects to experiment with shape and texture. Finger painting is fun but messy - please have children wear appropriate clothing. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Room In Use
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Toddler Time
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Join us for short stories, songs and finger plays, followed by a playtime with the library’s collection of age appropriate toys. Toddler Time is for all children under 3 and their families. No registration is necessary for this program.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Treasure Hunt - Ages 6 - 10
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Keep your eyes open on this library-wide hunt for treasure. Everyone wins a prize! No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
We're Going on Safari: Story Time - Ages 2 - 4
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Young adventurers will want to make tracks to this story time. Tales and crafts about animals will be the theme. Themed story times for ages 2 – 4 are every Monday at 10:30, June 30 – August 4. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Middle School Movie: The Spiderwick Chronicles
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
From the beloved best selling series of books comes this fantasy adventure about the Grave family who moves into the secluded house of their great, great Uncle Arthur Spiderwick. Once there, they begin to notice strange accidents and disappearances that seem to happen on a daily basis and they begin to uncover the fantastic truth of creatures which inhabit the Spiderwick estate. Rated: PG.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Reverse Mortgage Seminar
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Informational seminar
Arthur Boyle 781-367-1930 artieb@mgroup3.com
Beautiful Beads - Ages 5 - 6
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Make a fabulous necklace, bracelet, dog collar or anything else you can imagine. We have lots of fun and colorful beads to choose from. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Paper Airplane Contest
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Design and decorate your own paper airplanes. Then we’ll take them outside and see how far they fly. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Library Long Range Planning Committee
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
hiref@ocln.org 781-741-1405 x2609 hiref@ocln.org
Location: Fearing Room
Wild Animal Bingo
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Children are invited to bring their grandparents, families, and caregivers and join us for a prize-filled night of jungle Bingo! Bingo cards will feature all the wildest animals and five in a row makes BINGO! Please call to register beginning July 7.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Whiton Room
We're Going on Safari: Story Time - Ages 5 - 7
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Young adventurers will want to make tracks to this story time. Tales and crafts about animals will be the theme. Themed story times for ages 5 – 7 are every Wednesday at 10:30, July 2 – August 6. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Room In Use
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Fun With Finger Paint - Ages 4 - 5
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Make crazy and colorful summer art with your fingers on our giant paper canvas. Finger painting is fun but messy - please have children wear appropriate clothing. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Independent Movie Night
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Where Do the Children Play? is a one-hour documentary for public television that examines how restrictive patterns of sprawl, congestion, and endless suburban development across America are impacting children's mental and physical health and development.
Using the adage that children represent 20 percent of the world's population but 100 percent of its future, the film opens by examining differences between growing up today, with all its inherent obstacles and temptations, and childhood as it was lived 50 years ago.
To understand today’s children more acutely, the film team first visited Beaver Island where there are no McDonald’s, Burger Kings, Targets or Walmarts. There, children congregate by bike in the downtown area to play. All 85 students in grades one to twelve attend the only school on the island. Most use the computer as a tool for homework, but not for communication. And while they miss a lot of what their counterparts have on the mainland, Beaver Island children are keenly aware of nature and its importance to their lives and their well-being.
Second, the film looked at suburbs today, which have the greatest problems. Explosive growth patterns, massive highways, distant malls, create an isolated environment lacking in sidewalks or places to ride bikes, walk or play. Children tend to be driven indoors to computers and television for recreation, and then driven to a mall or a friend’s house by parents. Suburban kids, those ironically with the most opportunity in some areas, suffer the greatest health and psychological problems.
Third, the film team visited the city, which produced the greatest surprises as a place for children: for those not raised in crushing poverty, it still works. And surprisingly well. Despite obstacles and the media stereotypes, old neighborhoods function better than many suburbs, with parks and schools and a sense of community in which parents of different backgrounds often watch out for the safety of children, as they did generations ago when these places were built.
Finally, the film examines the impact of the media and stranger-danger television stories. But it also looks at the role of parents themselves, specifically to the over-programmed child of professionals who run their child’s life as if it were a business.
The making of the film began in 2001 with the work of Dr. Elizabeth Goodenough on Secret Spaces of Childhood (University of Michigan Press, 2003), which the producers developed into an idea for a film. Dr. Goodenough is a scholar, author and activist in the emerging field of children’s studies. She has taught English literature at Harvard College, Claremont McKenna College and is currently at the University of Michigan Residential College. She is the founding editor of the Landscapes of Childhood series at Wayne State University Press and has co-edited Infant Tongues: the Voice of the Child in Literature; Under Fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War; and Children’s Literature and Violence. Other books include Where Do the Children Play? A Study Guide to the film and the forthcoming A Place for Play.
The Library is pleased to have Dr. Goodenough available on July 16th to answer questions and participate
in a discussion with the audience.
Isabel Taylor Bellenis 781-741-1405 (AV) itaylor@ocln.org
Middle School: Water Wars and Ice Cream Sundae Party
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
A giant wet sponge fight followed by all the ice cream, hot fudge, and toppings you can eat! Please call to register beginning July 7.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Front Lawn
Toddler Time
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Join us for short stories, songs and finger plays, followed by a playtime with the library’s collection of age appropriate toys. Toddler Time is for all children under 3 and their families. No registration is necessary for this program.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Reptiles Rock!
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Join us for a wild animal evening as we meet, greet, and learn about amazing reptiles from around the world. We’ll also get to pet a live alligator and see interesting bugs, frogs, snakes, and lizards in a mini zoo. Please call to register beginning July 7.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Fairy Dust: Story Time - Ages 2 - 4
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Join us for a magical story time that will include enchanting stories and a small craft. Themed story times for ages 2 – 4 are every Monday at 10:30, June 30 – August 4. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Special Guest: Author Ann Hood - Ages 9 - 14
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Author Ann Hood will read aloud from and discuss her wonderful new novel “How I Saved My Father’s Life (And Ruined Everything Else)”. No registration is necessary. ---
Twelve-year-old Madeline believes she can perform miracles. And, only known to Madeline, her biggest one to date is saving her father from an avalanche. But, un-miraculously, soon after his recovery, he divorces Madeline’s mother, writes a book about the avalanche, becomes a celebrity, and marries a renowned food writer.
When her father leaves, Madeline is left with her mother, her hypochondriac little brother, a house that is falling apart, and no clue how to perform the miracle that will fix it all. Amid ballet lessons, insufferable recipe experiments for her mother’s magazine column, and a life-changing trip to Italy, Madeline learns the true meaning of faith – and family – in this moving novel.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Whiton Room
An Evening with the Author: Ann Hood
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
-Ann Hood, author of a bestselling novel, THE KNITTING CIRCLE, discusses her latest book, a work of nonfiction called COMFORT:A JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF -- a heartbreakingly honest depiction of the pain of losing a young child to sudden illness.
library reference desk 781-741-1405, x2607 hiref@ocln.org
Fun With Finger Paint - Ages 2 - 3
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Make crazy and colorful summer art with your fingers on our giant paper canvas. Finger painting is fun but messy - please have children wear appropriate clothing. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Treasure Hunt - Ages 3 - 5
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Keep your eyes open on this library-wide scavenger hunt. Everyone wins a prize! Each child should be accompanied by an adult who can help them during the hunt. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Weir River Watershed Assn
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
monthly meeting
Darrell Baker 202-725-3590
Big Ryan's Tall Tales
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Featuring original stories, puppets, music and movement, and a whole lot of fun, Big Ryan’s Tall Tales is great for the whole family! Big Ryan is a perennial favorite at the library; we hope you can join us this year. Please call to register beginning July 14.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Whiton Room
Fairy Dust: Story Time - Ages 5 - 7
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Pixie dust, gossamer wings, and images of finely-featured sprites inhabit fairy worlds. Join us for a magical story time that will include a craft and enchanting stories. Themed story times for ages 5 – 7 are every Wednesday at 10:30, July 2 – August 6. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Front Lawn
Special Guest: Leslie Badger, Hingham's Animal Control Officer
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Do you love animals? Then you’ll be excited to meet Hingham’s animal control officer. She’ll bring some animals to the library for us to meet, and talk about all the interesting things she gets to do each day on the job. No registration is necessary for this program and all ages are welcome.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Whiton Room
Toddler Time
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Join us for short stories, songs and finger plays, followed by a playtime with the library’s collection of age appropriate toys. Toddler Time is for all children under 3 and their families. No registration is necessary for this program.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Ice Cream Ball - Ages 5 - 8
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
We’ll fill our ice cream ball with milk, sugar, and vanilla. Then play fun games to shake it up. Everyone will get a taste of homemade ice cream! Yum-yum! Please call to register beginning July 14.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Amazing Elephants: Story Time - Ages 2 - 4
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Pachyderm attraction rates high on the animal affection meter. These gentle giants will be the focus of this story time. Themed story times for ages 2 – 4 are every Monday at 10:30, June 30 – August 4. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Paper Kites - Ages 5 - 10
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Decorate a beautiful butterfly-shaped paper kite and then journey outside to see how high it can fly. Please call to register beginning July 21.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Water Wars - Ages 5 - 10
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Get wet and cool off with fun water games and activities. We’ll provide the treats for a break in the shade. Please call to register beginning July 21.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Front Lawn
Phineas the Dog Puppet Show
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Phineas The Dog & Co. proudly presents the debut performance of Phineas The Dog & His Lemonade Stand. Phineas The Dog wants to give his Momma Bomma a birthday present. But how can he afford his special surprise? Will his monstrous neighbors get in his way? Come to the show to find out! No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Whiton Room
Weir River Watershed Association
7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
Kirk Shilts 781-749-2580
Location: Whiton Room
Hingham Public Library Book Group
7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
The July book selection is Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. The Book Club of the Hingham Public Library meets on the last Tuesday of the month in the Fearing Room. New participants are always welcome!
Anne Dalton 781-741-1405 x2650 hiref@ocln.org
Amazing Elephants: Story Time - Ages 5 - 7
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Pachyderm attraction rates high on the animal affection meter. These gentle giants will be the focus of this story time. Themed story times for ages 5 – 7 are every Wednesday at 10:30, July 2 – August 6. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Beautiful Beads - Ages 3 - 4
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Create a fabulous necklace, bracelet, or anything else you can imagine. We have lots of colorful beads to choose from. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Fun & Discovery With Bubbles
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Join us for an incredible bubble magic show! Mike, the Boston Bubble Guy will amaze us all with his bubbleology, a wide array of bubble tricks and sculptures accompanied by music. And, for the grand finale, members of the audience will have a chance to experience the world from INSIDE A BUBBLE! Please call to register beginning July 21.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Whiton Room
Toddler Time
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Join us for short stories, songs and finger plays, followed by a playtime with the library’s collection of age appropriate toys. Toddler Time is for all children under 3 and their families. No registration is necessary for this program.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Parachute Play - Ages 5 - 6
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
We’re opening the parachute for fun activities and silly songs. We’ll play parachute tag, roller ball, big turtle, and lots of other fun and challenging parachute games. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Room In Use
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Fairy Tales & Adventures: Story Time - Ages 2 - 4
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Pigs, Wolves, Spiders, Giants – Fairy Tales stretch the imagination and ignite creativity. Join us for some classic stories and simple crafts. Themed story times for ages 2 – 4 are every Monday at 10:30, June 30 – August 4. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Movie: Intrepid Descent: History of Tuckerman's Ravine
6:00 PM - 8:45 PM
Anne Osterholm 301-440-6181
Location: Whiton Room
Fairy Tales & Adventures: Story Time - Ages 5 - 7
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Pigs, Wolves, Spiders, Giants – Fairy Tales stretch the imagination and ignite creativity. Join us for some classic stories and crafts. Themed story times for ages 5 – 7 are every Wednesday at 10:30, July 2 – August 6. No registration is necessary.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Toddler Time
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Join us for short stories, songs and finger plays, followed by a playtime with the library’s collection of age appropriate toys. Toddler Time is for all children under 3 and their families. No registration is necessary for this program.
Children's Department 781-741-1405 hijuv@ocln.org
Location: Story Telling Room
Wednesday August 13, 2008
Great Books Meeting
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Lillian Neville 781-749-0744
Location: Fearing Room
Room In Use
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room In Use
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday August 20, 2008
Independent Movie Night
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Feature : “THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI”
Shown by permission of the Producer/Director Linda Hattendorf
"Make art not war" is Jimmy Mirikitani's motto. The 80-year-old artist was born in Sacramento, California, raised in Hiroshima, Japan, trave
