Library Events
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Baby Storytime
Tuesdays, June 4–25, 11–11:30 a.m.
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
Thursdays, June 13–27, 11–11:30 a.m.
For children age 2 and up. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement with your children.
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Edina Reads: Connie Brockway & Susan Kay Law
Monday, June 17, 7–8:30 p.m.
Location: Braemar Golf Course Clubhouse, 6364 John Harris Dr., Edina
Celebrate summer with good friends and romance writers Brockway and Law. The two writers will discuss their novels, their writing lives, and how their friendship and professional lives evolved. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Sponsored by Friends of the Edina Library; Sponsored by the Edina Community Foundation, Edina Senior Center, Friends of the Hennepin County Library, Edina High School, Edina Community Education and Edina Resource Center, and Edina League of Women Voters.
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Stories in French
Mondays, June 17, June 24, July 8, July 15, July 22 & July 29, 4:00 –4:30 p.m.
For families. French storytellers will tell stories and encourage interactive dialog in French. Children will be divided by age. Entering grades 1-4.
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Girls Only Kids Book Club
Wednesday, June 19, 5–6 p.m.
Wednesday, July 10, 5–6 p.m.
Wednesday, July 24, 5–6 p.m.
Register Online or call 612-543-6325.
Girls entering grades 4-6. 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 19: Emma-Jean Lazarus fell out of a tree , by Lauren Tarshis.
July 10: Turtle in Paradise, by Jennifer Holm.
July 24: Becoming Naomi Leon, by Pam Munoz Ryan.
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Daughter-Mother Book Club
Wednesday, June 19, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 10, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 24, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Register Online or call 612-543-6325.
Girls entering grades 4-6 and their mother or other female adult. Join others to talk about a great book!
What We're Reading:
June 19: A Crooked Kind of Perfect, by Linda Urban.
July 10: The School Story, by Andrew Clements.
July 24: Small Steps: The Year I got Polio, by Peg Kehret.
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Edina Reads: Wayne D. Jorgenson
Monday, June 24, 7–8:30 p.m.
Location: Fireside Room, Edina Senior Center, below the library
Jorgenson will discuss his book "Every Man Did His Duty” about the men of the First Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry - the first volunteer regiment offered in service to President Lincoln after the fall of Ft. Sumter. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Sponsored by Friends of the Edina Library; Sponsored by the Edina Community Foundation, Edina Senior Center, Friends of the Hennepin County Library, Edina High School, Edina Community Education and Edina Resource Center, and Edina League of Women Voters.
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Fabric Molas
Thursday, June 27, 2–3:30 p.m.
Registration required, begins May 30. Register online or call 612-543-6325.
Entering grades 2-6. Create a traditional Panamanian fabric picture with local artist Anne Sawyer-Aitch. Materials provided.
Sponsored by Friends of the Hennepin County Library and MELSA (Metropolitan Library Service Agency).
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Baby Storytime
Tuesdays, July 9–30, 11–11:30 a.m.
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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Art Out of the Box: Handmade Portraits
Monday, July 15, 2–3 p.m.
Registration required, begins Jun 17. Register online or call 612-543-6325.
Entering grades 2-5. Museum-trained teens will take you on a hands-on exploration of portraits from the museum. Turn your idea of self-image on its head with a playful approach to a timeless art form. Leave with a sketchbook to keep drawing whenever inspiration strikes!
Presented in partnership with Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Funded by the Friends of the Hennepin County Library.
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Family Storytime
Thursdays, Aug. 1–15, 11–11:30 a.m.
For children age 2 and up. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement with your children.
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