Time to move to the music! Join us online for this lively, interactive program perfect for the whole family. Music and Movement encourages fine and gross motor development, increases self-esteem, builds listening skills and improves impulse control - plus it's so much fun. 

DIY Take and Make Craft Kit
Pick up everything you need to make your own shakers, movement ribbons, and more! Stop at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6600 to reserve for Curbside Pick-Up. One kit per child. Adult supervision recommended.
FACEBOOK & YOUTUBE

Enjoy a storytime designed to expand early literacy skills through longer, more complex stories for friends who are able to listen to those stories. Miss the premiere? The video will be available to watch for two weeks!

YOUTUBE

for ages 9-12Join Camille from the Children's Room as she continues to share tips on creating in Roblox Studio.  Over the course of 4 months, you will learn to publish a game to the Roblox platform for anyone to play.  Future videos will be released on February 16, March 16 and April 20.
FACEBOOK & YOUTUBE

Join us for an interactive program highlighting songs and rhymes grown-ups can share with the very young.  This program will be geared to families with children ages birth -2, older siblings are welcome.  Register online, at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6585 to receive the program link.  You can register up until the start of the program.  For the best interactive experience, we recommend using a laptop or computer to see all of the participants.  Please contact us if you need help accessing equipment or WiFI in order to participate.

Looking for book recommendations?  Join your children's librarians for a themed book talk featuring boos for middle grade readers or picture books for shared reading.  This week's book talk will feature middle grade books about trains.

https://www.youtube.com/user/HedbergPublicLibrary

Your HPL librarians are here to try new things! Try them with us! After all, how hard can it be? This month we are exploring Hygge to make and try new things!
YOUTUBE

Join us for an early literacy storytime with books, fingerplays, puppets, songs and movement activities on Facebook Live.  This program will be available to view for a limited time after the live broadcast.FACEBOOK LIVE

Join us as we celebrate Ann Bausum's new non-fiction book, Ensnared in the Wolf's Lair: Inside the 1944 Plot to Kill Hitler and the Ghost Children of His Revenge. We'll host a LIVE DISCUSSION in the comments during the premiere! Miss the premiere? Watch the video on YoutTube anytime!
"I've come on orders from Berlin to fetch the three children." -- Gestapo agent, August 24, 1944.  With those chilling words Christa von Hofacker and her younger siblings found themselves ensnared in a web of family punishment designed to please one man - Adolf Hitler.  The furious dictator sought merciless revenge against not only Christa's father and the other Germans who had just tried to overthrow his government.  He wanted to torment their relatives, too, regardless of age or stature.  All of them.  Including every last child.
Ms. Bausum traveled twice to Germany and beyond to research this fascinating, little-known side of the Operation Valkyrie story - the revenge Hitler exacted on the conspirators and their families.  This story of perseverance comes to life through interviews Ms. Bausum conducted with the now adult "ghost children" as well as other primary sources.  

Time to move to the music! Join us online for this lively, interactive program perfect for the whole family. Music and Movement encourages fine and gross motor development, increases self-esteem, builds listening skills and improves impulse control - plus it's so much fun. 

DIY Take and Make Craft Kit
Pick up everything you need to make your own shakers, movement ribbons, and more! Stop at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6600 to reserve for Curbside Pick-Up. One kit per child. Adult supervision recommended.
FACEBOOK & YOUTUBE

Join us for an interactive program highlighting songs and rhymes grown-ups can share with the very young.  This program will be geared to families with children ages birth -2, older siblings are welcome.  Register online, at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6585 to receive the program link.  You can register up until the start of the program.  For the best interactive experience, we recommend using a laptop or computer to see all of the participants.  Please contact us if you need help accessing equipment or WiFI in order to participate.

Your HPL librarians are here to try new things! Try them with us! After all, how hard can it be? This month we are exploring Hygge to make and try new things!
YOUTUBE

Join us for an early literacy storytime with books, fingerplays, puppets, songs and movement activities on Facebook Live.  This program will be available to view for a limited time after the live broadcast.FACEBOOK LIVE

Is your family a big fan of Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie books? Watch these funny stories come to life in our own virtual Reader's Theater. The book for this program will be My New Friend Is So Fun.  These pre-recorded programs will premiere on our Facebook page and YouTube channel at 2 p.m.

Time to move to the music! Join us online for this lively, interactive program perfect for the whole family. Music and Movement encourages fine and gross motor development, increases self-esteem, builds listening skills and improves impulse control - plus it's so much fun. 

DIY Take and Make Craft Kit
Pick up everything you need to make your own shakers, movement ribbons, and more! Stop at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6600 to reserve for Curbside Pick-Up. One kit per child. Adult supervision recommended.
FACEBOOK & YOUTUBE

Enjoy a storytime designed to expand early literacy skills through longer, more complex stories for friends who are able to listen to those stories. Miss the premiere? The video will be available to watch for two weeks!

YOUTUBE

for ages 8-11 

T for Technology:  Unplugged Glow-in-the-Dark Coding Game
Stop by the Children's Desk (or call 608-758-6600 for Curbside Pick-Up) to snag your own STEAM Take and Make kit (while supplies last). Then, tune into our YouTube channel and Facebook page to find an instructional video to complete the activity. Video will remain online for on-demand viewing. Each month a new kit and video will feature a different area of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math).  Adult supervision is recommended.  
FACEBOOK & YOUTUBE

for kids
Join HPL staff as we share the joy of reading with the community throughout the day by reading some of our favorites aloud on the Children's Room Facebook page.
LitWorld founded World Read Aloud Day in 2010 in celebration of the power of reading aloud to create community, to amplify new stories, and to advocate for literacy as a foundational human right.

Join us for an interactive program highlighting songs and rhymes grown-ups can share with the very young.  The program will be geared to families with children ages birth-2, older siblings are welcome.  Register online, at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6585 to receive the program link.  You can register up until the start of the program.  For the best interactive experience, we recommend using a laptop or computer in order to see all of the participants.  Please contact us if you need help accessing equipment or WiFi in order to participate.

Join us for a LIVE early literacy storytime with books, fingerplays, puppets, songs and movement activities on Facebook.  Miss us live? Visit our Facebook page to watch for a limited time after the broadcast.FACEBOOK LIVE

Time to move to the music! Join us online for this lively, interactive program perfect for the whole family. Music and Movement encourages fine and gross motor development, increases self-esteem, builds listening skills and improves impulse control - plus it's so much fun. 

DIY Take and Make Craft Kit
Pick up everything you need to make your own shakers, movement ribbons, and more! Stop at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6600 to reserve for Curbside Pick-Up. One kit per child. Adult supervision recommended.
FACEBOOK & YOUTUBE

Join us for an interactive program highlighting songs and rhymes grown-ups can share with the very young.  The program will be geared to families with children ages birth-2, older siblings are welcome.  Register online, at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6585 to receive the program link.  You can register up until the start of the program.  For the best interactive experience, we recommend using a laptop or computer in order to see all of the participants.  Please contact us if you need help accessing equipment or WiFi in order to participate.

Join us for a LIVE early literacy storytime with books, fingerplays, puppets, songs and movement activities on Facebook.  Miss us live? Visit our Facebook page to watch for a limited time after the broadcast.FACEBOOK LIVE

for ages 9-12 on Microsoft Teams
February title: Kiki's Delivery Service 
What's better than an amazing story? Talking about it with your friends! Join our new fan club where we'll read books and/or watch book-related movies and then play games, make crafts, and share swag based on the stories.

Registration is required. Register online or call 608-758-6585.

SWAG BAG
All registered participants will get a bag of goodies! Stop in or call for Curbside Pick-Up!

Does your family know everything about cartoons.  Find out if your family has what it takes to beat the competition!  Prizes are available to the top three finishers.  (Pick up at the Children's Desk or via Curbside Pick-Up.)  
Registration is required and limited to 20 teams.  Register online, at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6585.
Two devices are recommended:  one with a web browser for answering the trivia questions, and one with a webcam, microphone and Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge for joining the Microsoft Teams meeting.  
MICROSOFT TEAMS & KAHOOT

Time to move to the music! Join us online for this lively, interactive program perfect for the whole family. Music and Movement encourages fine and gross motor development, increases self-esteem, builds listening skills and improves impulse control - plus it's so much fun. 

DIY Take and Make Craft Kit
Pick up everything you need to make your own shakers, movement ribbons, and more! Stop at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6600 to reserve for Curbside Pick-Up. One kit per child. Adult supervision recommended.
FACEBOOK & YOUTUBE

Enjoy a storytime designed to expand early literacy skills through longer, more complex stories for friends who are able to listen to those stories. Miss the premiere? The video will be available to watch for two weeks!

YOUTUBE

for ages 9-12Join Camille from the Children's Room as she continues to share tips on creating in Roblox Studio.  Over the course of 4 months, you will learn to publish a game to the Roblox platform for anyone to play.  Future videos will be released on February 16, March 16 and April 20.
FACEBOOK & YOUTUBE

Join us for an interactive program highlighting songs and rhymes grown-ups can share with the very young.  The program will be geared to families with children ages birth-2, older siblings are welcome.  Register online, at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6585 to receive the program link.  You can register up until the start of the program.  For the best interactive experience, we recommend using a laptop or computer in order to see all of the participants.  Please contact us if you need help accessing equipment or WiFi in order to participate.

YOUTUBE
Looking for book recommendations?  Join your children's librarians for a themed book talk featuring books for middle grade readers or picture books for shared reading.  This week's book talk will feature new picture books. 

Join us for a LIVE early literacy storytime with books, fingerplays, puppets, songs and movement activities on Facebook.  Miss us live? Visit our Facebook page to watch for a limited time after the broadcast.FACEBOOK LIVE

for ages 10 to adult
Learn the basics with artist JoJo Liu from the comfort and safety of your own home. JoJo will teach you how to hold a brush, write basic strokes, and write strokes while standing. No experience necessary! 
FREE CALLIGRAPHY KIT 
Registered participants can pick up all the supplies they'll need for this class (calligraphy brush, ink and paper) beginning February 1 at the Children's Desk - or call 608-758-6600 to arrange for Curbside Pick-Up! 

Registration is required. Register online or call 608-758-6585. 
Registered participants will receive the Zoom link via email two days before the class. The class will be recorded and available for participants to view again for one month after the class.

Time to move to the music! Join us online for this lively, interactive program perfect for the whole family. Music and Movement encourages fine and gross motor development, increases self-esteem, builds listening skills and improves impulse control - plus it's so much fun. 

DIY Take and Make Craft Kit
Pick up everything you need to make your own shakers, movement ribbons, and more! Stop at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6600 to reserve for Curbside Pick-Up. One kit per child. Adult supervision recommended.
FACEBOOK & YOUTUBE

Join us for an interactive program highlighting songs and rhymes grown-ups can share with the very young.  The program will be geared to families with children ages birth-2, older siblings are welcome.  Register online, at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6585 to receive the program link.  You can register up until the start of the program.  For the best interactive experience, we recommend using a laptop or computer in order to see all of the participants.  Please contact us if you need help accessing equipment or WiFi in order to participate.

Join us for a LIVE early literacy storytime with books, fingerplays, puppets, songs and movement activities on Facebook.  Miss us live? Visit our Facebook page to watch for a limited time after the broadcast.FACEBOOK LIVE

Is your family a big fan of Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie books? Watch these funny stories come to life in our own virtual Reader's Theater. The book for this program will be I Will Surprise My Friend. These pre-recorded programs will premiere on our Facebook page and YouTube channel at 2 p.m.

for kids on Zoom

Explore shipwrecks found around the Great Lakes and become the virtual crew of an ill-fated scow schooner on Lake Michigan! 
Anne Moser, education coordinator and librarian for Wisconsin Sea Grant at UW Madison, will introduce maritime archaeology and history through storytelling and humor in this program for families. 
Registration is required. Register online, at the Children's Desk or call 608-758-6585. Participants will receive a link once registered.

Join us each Saturday as we share a new opportunity to learn and play with your preschooler.  Take and Make DIY kits will be available for select projects.  Miss the premiere?  The video will be available all month.

Join us each Saturday as we share a new opportunity to learn and play with your preschooler.  Take and Make DIY kits will be available for select projects.  Miss the premiere?  The video will be available all month.

for ages 9-12Join Camille from the Children's Room as she continues to share tips on creating in Roblox Studio.  Over the course of 4 months, you will learn to publish a game to the Roblox platform for anyone to play.  Future videos will be released on February 16, March 16 and April 20.
FACEBOOK & YOUTUBE

Program Room

Program Room

Join us each Saturday as we share a new opportunity to learn and play with your preschooler.  Take and Make DIY kits will be available for select projects.  Miss the premiere?  The video will be available all month.

Join us each Saturday as we share a new opportunity to learn and play with your preschooler.  Take and Make DIY kits will be available for select projects.  Miss the premiere?  The video will be available all month.

What is a map? What does a map have to do with telling a story? How can a map help you find your way when you are lost - in the world or in sadness? How can a map help you make sense of the world? We will explore maps and create our own using the NEA Big Read children's book A Map Into the World by Kao Kalia Yang as our inspiration. Registration is required. A link to join Teams will be emailed to all registrants a few days before the class.

Before class pick up a Mapping Activity Pack at the HPL Children's Desk or call 608-758-6600 to arrange for curbside pick-up. You'll want to have these materials on hand along with pencils, crayons, markers, scissors, and glue and a space to work for the class.

Copies of A Map Into the World by Kao Kalia Yang are available in print and as ebook for instant download on hoopla through the library, if you would like to read it ahead of time.

NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) designed to broaden our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book.  Hedberg Public Library is one of 78 not-for-profit organizations to receive a grant to host an NEA Big Read project between September 2019 and June 2020. The NEA presents NEA Big Read in partnership with Arts Midwest.