Library Events
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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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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.
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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.
What We're Reading:
June 26: The klipfish code , by Mary Casanova.
July 10: Among the hidden, by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
July 24: Mission unstoppable , by Dan Gutman.
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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.
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.
What We're Reading:
June 27: Rickshaw girl , by Mitali Perkins.
July 11: Lulu and the duck in the park, by Hilary McKay.
July 25: Princess for a week , by Betty Ren Wright.
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Guys Read Teen Book Club
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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Can Pigeons Drive a Bus?
Tuesday, July 9, 2–4 p.m.
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.
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.
What We're Reading:
July 10: Captain Awesome and the new kid , by Stan Kirby.
July 24: Binky the space cat, by Ashley Spires.
August 7: How to save your tail, by Mary Hanson.
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Japanese Shadow Puppets
Tuesday, July 16, 2–3:30 p.m.
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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Snapdragon Seeds Music
Tuesday, July 23, 10:30 a.m.
For families. All ages. Join us for an upbeat, fun and educational music performance that teaches rhymes, patterns, synonyms, sentence structure, songwriting, movement and the intellectual power of asking questions.
Sponsored by Friends of the Hennepin County Library and MELSA (Metropolitan Library Service Agency).
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Act Out for Kids: Creative Movement
Thursday, July 25, 10:30a.m.–noon
Registration required, begins Jun 27. Register online or call 612-543-6400.
Entering grades 1-2. Learn how to walk like a bear, creep like a tiger or be like a tiny fly! An experienced Guthrie teaching artist will show you fun and creative ways to use imaginative movement. See related materials for further information. Find more by searching the library catalog or Ask Us.
This project is funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Presented in collaboration with Guthrie Theater.
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