Week Calendar

Enjoy stories, songs, and fun as children ages 3-5 are introduced to the joy-filled world of children’s books. Groups must pre-register.

Toddlers and their caregivers are invited to Randolph Library for stories, songs, rhymes and a craft!

Children will gather for open conversation and talk about what they want for the upcoming school year and afterwards we will break into team sessions and put together big puzzles.  They will be using teamwork and communication skills.

Join us at OGR Library at the corner of Poplar and White Station for stories, songs, movement, and more! 

Come out and grab a backpack full of school supplies donated by the community and the Raleigh Chicks. The whole library will be celebrating back to school with games, activities, and food. There will be tons of things to do for all ages. 

Bring the family to storytime to explore stories and facts, shake your sillies out, sing and rhyme together, and more! 

This storytime occurs on Mondays at 11:00 a.m.

Family story times are a great opportunity for children and caretakers to come together, hear stories, sing songs, and work together on crafts or other activities.

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Baby Storytime.  Share stories and songs and bubbles!  This week's theme is: Dinosaurs!  No registration is needed.

Children will enjoy an interactive and engaging storytime that is sure to keep them wanting more!

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Storytime.  Share stories, songs and crafts.  This week's theme: Dinosaurs  No registration is needed.

Come enjoy Arts & Crafts with us ! Ages 4-6 are welcomed to this creative and expressive event.

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Storytime.  Share stories, songs and crafts.  This week's theme: Dinosaurs!  No registration is needed.

Sensory storytime is a welcoming, interactive environment designed for special sensory seeking children with autism or other sensory integration challenges.

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for the Explore Memphis finale.  All kinds of fun including stomp rockets, chalk stories and all you can eat Popcorn & Snowcones.  For all ages and no registration is needed.

ABC24 and MPL team up to encourage elementary children to read during the summer. Children will engage in fun activities during this journalistic story time. 

Reading Wizard Summer 2024 Dates are below:

Get ready to go back to school with the South Branch! Join us for face painting, balloon animals, Mister Softee ice cream, and more! A limited number of free school supply packs will also be available. 

Join the Sigma Lambda Lambda chapter of Omega Psi Phi and the Orange Mound Library for the annual School Supply Give Away! We will have books and backpacks filled with school supplies available for any K-12 students in need of supplies.

Come and view the award-winning eight-part docu-series "High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America." We will then sample cuisines mentioned in the film. Every Monday in June and July.

Let's have fun and paint (chalk paint) the sidewalk red, green purple or whatever color you'd like!

We provide the Lego bricks and you make the creations. Come get your build on!

Please join us Saturday afternoons for children's craft time at Cossitt Library. We will have a guided craft, but also will provide supplies for artistic free play. Come get crafty with us!

Kids: Join us at Your Randolph Branch to design your own adventuremobile using recycled materials and glow in the dark tape!

Dreading the back-to-school blues? We've got the cure! Come join us for our Back-to-School Self-Care Story Time with Jerrika Henderson at the Orange Mound library.

Every 4th Saturday, from 1-4 p.m., Mr. James Williams of Sowing Seeds Enterprises will offer free haircuts to our patrons. Patrons must be between the ages of 3-17 in order to take part in this event.
 

Join us and enjoy learning about food/beverages in our Raleigh Kid's Cafe. Come and create your own recipe. 

Connect Crew will be hosting a family storytime event at the Memphis Zoo! The storytime and animal meet & greet program will be held at the Wild Encounter location. The storytime event will occur during the zoo's Free TN Tuesday hours.

Join us at the Hollywood Community Center for a summer giveaway! Kick your school year off right and say goodbye to summer.