Library Events
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Baby Storytime
Thursdays, May 2–23, 10:30 a.m.
Register Online or call 612-543-6400.
For children from birth to 24 months. Delight and stimulate your baby's senses with books and music. Build brain power.
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Family Storytime
Wednesdays, June 5–26, 10:30 a.m.
For children age 2 and up. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement with your children.
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Guys Read Teen Book Club
Monday, June 10, 4 p.m.
Monday, June 17, 4 p.m.
Monday, July 8, 4 p.m.
Monday, July 15, 4 p.m.
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612-543-6400.Guys entering grades 6-7. Join other guys to talk about a great book! Lending copies may be picked up at the information desk prior to meeting.
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Schiffelly Puppets: A Boy, a Cow and a Mean-Lean-Stemmed-Green-Beanstalk!
Tuesday, June 18, 10:30 a.m.
For families. Join us for this great adventure as we discover what is at the top of that silly old beanstalk.
Sponsored by Friends of the Hopkins Library.
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Yoga and Stories
Thursday, June 20, 2–3:15 p.m.
Register Online or call 612-543-6400.
Entering grades 1-2. Children's stories will provide a world where kids and their caregivers can practice yoga postures with imagination. Become stretching dogs and hopping frogs! Play, create, rest and giggle with yoga.
Sponsored by Friends of the Hopkins Library.
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Kids Book Club
Wednesday, June 26, 2:30–3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 10, 2:30–3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 24, 2:30–3:30 p.m.
Registration required, begins May 29. Register online or call 612-543-6400.
Entering grades 4-6. Join other kids to talk about a great book! Lending copies may be picked up at the information desk prior to meeting.
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Girls Only Jr. Book Club
Thursday, June 27, 1:30–2 p.m.
Thursday, July 11, 1:30–2 p.m.
Thursday, July 25, 1:30–2 p.m.
Registration required, begins May 30. Register online or call 612-543-6400.
Girls entering grades 2-3. Join other girls to talk about a great book! Lending copies may be picked up at the information desk prior to meeting.
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Can Pigeons Drive a Bus?
Tuesday, July 9, 2–4 p.m.
Registration required, begins Jun 11. Register online or call 612-543-6400.
Entering K-grade 6. Using books by author/artist Mo Willems as inspiration, learn how to draw cartoon characters and change their expressions by changing just a few lines using markers, graphite pencils and colored pencils. Materials provided.
Presented in collaboration with Minnetonka Center for the Arts; Sponsored by the Friends of the Hennepin County Library and MELSA (Metropolitan Library Service Agency).
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Guys Read Jr. Book Club
Wednesday, July 10, 1:30–2 p.m.
Wednesday, July 24, 1:30–2 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 7, 1:30–2 p.m.
Registration required, begins Jun 12. Register online or call 612-543-6400.
Guys entering grades 2-3. Join other guys to talk about a great book! Lending copies may be picked up at the information desk prior to meeting.
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Japanese Shadow Puppets
Tuesday, July 16, 2–3:30 p.m.
Registration required, begins Jun 18. Register online or call 612-543-6400.
Entering grades 2-6. Learn to make lovely, color shadow puppets based on the popular Ukiyo-e wood cut prints of the Edo period in Japan! We will make color shadow puppets depicting Japanese Noh Theater, sumo wrestlers, geisha, samurai and more!
Sponsored by Friends of the Hopkins Library.
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Used Book Sale
Saturday, July 20, 10a.m.–4 p.m.
Bargain hunters and book lovers take note: the Friends of the Library will hold a sale of hundreds of adult and children's fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback. Most books, withdrawn from the Hennepin County Library system or donated by the public, will be priced $1 or less. Funds raised will benefit the library.
Saturday, July 20, 9-10 a.m. Hopkins Friends members only. Join at the door!
Book donations accepted at the library beginning June 1.
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