Learn and enjoy some new stories and some old favourites with other preschoolers and their families in this drop-in program. Stories entertain, inspire, and help us learn the patterns and vocabulary necessary for reading. Plus, storytime is super fun!

Have fun playing after school at this self-directed drop-in program!

• January 9-15: LEGO
• January 16-22: Board games
• January 23-29: Colouring & Activity sheets
• January 30 - February 5: Puzzles 

Are you an adult who loves YA books? Then join The Book Dragons where adults meet each month to discuss a teen book.

For January, we'll be discussing The Lovely War by Julie Berry.

Check out all of our upcoming book club picks HERE.

Join the library as we host bestselling author, Tanis Riedout as a part of our Fall Reading series. Tanis will be discussing her latest novel, The Sea Between Two Shores, in an online interview and reading. Audience questions are welcome.

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TANIS RIDEOUT’s internationally acclaimed first novel, Above All Things, was a national bestseller, named to numerous best books of the year lists, and published in several languages around the world. It was awarded the Premio ITAS del Libro di Montagna and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel is The Sea Between Two Shores. She is also the author of the poetry collection Arguments with the Lake, and, in 2006, she was named the “Poet Laureate for Lake Ontario” by the environmental advocacy group Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. Born in Belgium, she grew up in Bermuda and in Kingston, Ontario, and now lives in Los Angeles.

From the bestselling author of Above All Things and inspired by real events, this powerful novel follows two families brought together to reckon with what it means to make amends—for historic wrongs and the wrongs we commit against the ones we love.

The Stewarts are a Toronto family locked in mourning after the accidental drowning of their youngest son. When Michelle Stewart receives an unexpected call from the South Pacific island of Iparei, inviting the Stewarts to participate in a reconciliation ceremony to put the spirits of their respective ancestors to rest, she accepts in a desperate effort to save herself and her family.

On Iparei, we meet the Tabés, a ni-Vanuatu family who are themselves mourning the death of a child in the aftermath of a devastating cyclone, while worrying over the looming departure of another. As the ceremony approaches, the Tabés and the Stewarts will uncover their shared losses and failings, their fragile hopes for what a better future might hold, and the wounds that stand in the way of freeing themselves from the legacy of past betrayals.    

Heart-wrenching, thought-provoking, and morally complex, The Sea Between Two Shores immerses us in the lives of two families connected as much by their desire for healing as by the actions of their ancestors. It is an extraordinary meditation on the complications of history, the possibilities for redemption, and the meaning of the stories we tell ourselves.