children’s programs - Newport Beach Library Foundation

children’s programs

Where:

Newport Beach Central Library

1000 Avocado Avenue, Newport Beach, CA

Cost:

No admission charge; suggested donation $10

Parking:

Free parking available

Contact:

events@nbplfoundation.org

A parent or guardian must be present.

Children “learn by doing” and remember best when they actively participate. Making Memories for Children is designed to engage, educate and inspire children ages 5-12, through a series of different creative programs.

Sunday, June 2
1:00 - 3:00pm

Jon Klassen is the creator of the 2013 Caldecott Medal winner This Is Not My Hat, as well as the 2012 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book and New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year I Want My Hat Back. He is also the illustrator of Extra Yarn (Balzer + Bray), winner of a Caldecott Honor and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; Cats’ Night Out by Caroline Stutson (Simon & Schuster), winner of the prestigious Governor General’s Award for Illustration; and The House Held Up by Trees (Candlewick Press), a picture book by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser.

Klassen will give a presentation on This is Not My Hat and do some on-the-spot drawing.

Sunday, June 9

1:00 - 3:00pm

Meet Robin Preiss Glasser, illustrator of the popular Fancy Nancy series. Robin Preiss Glasser is the number one New York Times bestselling illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series, written by Jane O’Connor; America: A Patriotic Primer; A is for Abigail; and Our Fifty States by Lynne Cheney; and Tea for Ruby by Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York.

Seating is limited to 200; first-come, first-served.

Book for Purchase:

The Fancy Nancy and books by Jon Klassen will be available for purchase courtesy of A Whale of a Tale Children's Bookshoppe.

This program sponsored by the Newport Beach Public Library Foundation

Click here for some highlights of the recent Kids Cook program