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Monday 10am - 9pm Tuesday 10am - 9pm Wednesday 10am - 9pm Thursday 10am - 6pm Friday 10am - 6pm Saturday 10am - 5pm

Brooks Memorial Library Children's Room

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The Children's Room at Brooks Memorial Library is a great place for kids and families. Check-out books, make crafts, and participate in fun activities!

10/28/2026

Please note- the library will be CLOSED on Thursday, October 29th for a staff professional development day. We will open at 10:00 am on Friday, October 30th.

10/27/2026

Hi Friends! We're sorry but the library will be closed this Thursday, October 29th, so we need to cancel Sing & Dance with Robin for this week.
We look forward to seeing you again next week on Thursday, November 5th.

10/27/2026

Mark your calendars! Our Puppet Making Workshop will be taking place on Tuesday, November 24th from 12:30-2 here in our Community Meeting Room!

This event is for ages 7 and up, but younger children are also welcome with supervision. Stop by the Circulation Desk in the Children's Room to sign up!

10/26/2026

As we head into Halloween week we thought we would pick "It's Watching" from the VT Golden Dome Book Award list to read!

"On Halloween night, Josie and her two best friends, Jackson and Alison, sneak into the infamously haunted Bachelor’s Grove cemetery. They are hoping to prove the existence of a famous ghost to secure coveted editorial spots on the school newspaper. Instead, they are chased out by a security guard before they gather any evidence…or so they think.

Later, a sinister meme appears on their phones. It’s an image of the “phantom farmhouse,” an evil apparition rumored to appear to unlucky visitors at Bachelor's Grove—luring them in…and never letting them out—with the words I’m watching dripping down the screen.

Soon, strange and scary things begin to happen all around them. When a second meme from the same number arrives, this time with a countdown, they realize they have only three days to figure out who is terrorizing them. As they investigate, the trio must use their journalistic skills to uncover the truth, or risk becoming a part of the graveyard’s sinister past forever."

Sounds like a perfect Halloween read to us!

https://libraries.vermont.gov/vermont-golden-dome-book-award/2026-2027-golden-dome-nominees

10/23/2026

Celebrate Filipino American History Month! Join us for our bilingual storytime in Filipino and English. We will be reading Kalipay and the Tiniest TikTik by Christina Newhard, learning a few words in Tagalog and Cebuano, and making a craft. Our storytime will be held in the Community Meeting Room, located next to the Children's Room. Please note- the Main St. library entrance is closed due construction. Please use the upper entrance.

10/21/2026

Join us Thursdays at 10:30 am in the Community Meeting Room for Sing & Dance with Robin. This 1-hour music and movement program is designed for children 6 and under- all ages are welcome to join us! Sing & Dance with Robin will continue through December 17.
This free event is open to the public and presented by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library and the Children's Room.
NOTE: Please use the upper entrance of the library. The Main St. entrance is closed through November.

10/20/2026

October is Filipino American History Month! Come check out our display of books, then join us this Saturday, October 24th at 10:30 for Filipino Bilingual Storytime! We'll be reading "Kalipay and the Tiniest Tiktik" by Christina Newhard, learning a few words in Tagalog and Cebuano, and making a craft. All ages welcome! 🇵🇭

10/20/2026

Last call! Design-A-plate packets are due today. Please return your completed packets to the Children's Room by 8:00 pm Tuesday, October 20th.

10/19/2026

This week,"What Fell from the Sky," is the book we are reading from the VT Golden Dome Book Award list. And it is actually based on true events!

"All Pineda Matlage wants is to get through the school year and maybe pull an epic prank or two with his friends Junior, Ernesto, and Patsy. But class is disrupted when a slew of American soldiers descends upon their rural Texan town of Soledad. They’ll be carrying out a training exercise and taking over everything, from Pineda’s school to the local government.

But Pineda knows why they’re really here. For days he’s hidden the strange creature who fell from the sky in his parents’ barn. He promised her he’d find her family and help them return home. But with soldiers now on every street corner and armed checkpoints across every road, reuniting his new friend with her missing parents seems an impossible task. Especially when they realize that the army’s presence is really a coverup for capturing his alien friends―being observed in a laboratory by the US government for reasons of their own.

Enlisting the help of his friends, a Black soldier adjusting to a newly integrated army, and townspeople tired of the military’s destructive presence, Pineda and all of Soledad will embark on an adventure none of them could have ever expected."

And as the ending of the books says, "....maybe the next time someone new comes to Soledad, folks will be kind. They won't look at all the differences."
"...Folks will simply say, "Welcome."

https://libraries.vermont.gov/vermont-golden-dome-book-award/2026-2027-golden-dome-nominees

Address

224 Main Street
Brattleboro, VT
05301

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 9pm
Tuesday	10am - 9pm
Wednesday	10am - 9pm
Thursday	10am - 6pm
Friday	10am - 6pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

(802) 254-5290

Website

http://brookslibraryvt.org/kids

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