The Worthington Library

Summer Reading is June 20 to August 20. Come to the library and get a “Plant A Seed, Read” Reading Log (for kids) or Reading Bingo Sheet (for grown-ups). We have great reading rewards that want to be yours!

There’s also a bumper crop of Summer Reading events. Please join us for:

Alchemy Laboratory / Ed the Wizard
Thursday, July 9, at 10:30 am
With the help of volunteers, using common household items, the audience will learn and help perform magical feats such as transfiguration, vanishes, levitation, as well as other forms of “Alchemy Magic.” The real science behind each effect will be explained!

Breezy Seeds Engineering Challenge / Hitchcock Center for the Environment
Thursday, July 16, at 10:30 am
If you were a seed, how would you travel? Carried by the wind? Floating in the water? On the back of a furry bear? We’ll learn about the sneaky ways many seeds hitch a ride to far-off places. Then engineer your own seed pod out of common materials and put it to the test: How far does it fly through the air? And we’ll visit with a live creature who carries seeds long distances in its belly, and plants them in new locations!

Plant a Seed, Read: Tales and Tunes Concert / Mary Jo Maichack
Thursday, July 23, at 10:30 am
Songs and stories of our plant friends in places near & far with Musical Storyteller Mary Jo Maichack. Help act out the Russian chain tale of The Turnip, Listen to The Big Fat Worm by Nancy Van Laan, Aesop’s The Fox and the Grapes, and more! You’ll help tell the tales, sing along, and dance!

Sprouting Tales! / Diane Edgecomb
Thursday, July 30, at 10:30 am
Interactive stories of nature and gardening fun include humorous tales about sassy earthworms, sprouting seeds and a join-in story-song of how the Star in the Apple came to be.

Cardboard Fort Building
Saturday, August 15, at noon
Build a fort or barn from cardboard and tape and decorate it with markers! Spend the afternoon building and then playing in cardboard creations (with optional Godzilla finish, in which we demolish them).

Thanks to the the Worthington Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, and to FOWL, the Friends of the Worthington Library, for supporting these events.