HPL Children's Activities
Children's Room
The Children's Room is on the second floor of the library, with books, audio, and video for infants to teens. It also includes comfortable chairs for reading, tables for activities, and a selection of toys and games.
For more information about children's services, please call the library at 609-466-1625.
The Children's Room is on the second floor of the library, with books, audio, and video for infants to teens. It also includes comfortable chairs for reading, tables for activities, and a selection of toys and games.
For more information about children's services, please call the library at 609-466-1625.
Ongoing Activities:Hidden in the children’s room are 12 pictures of book characters!
Each character has a number. Find each one and write the number under the character on your page. When you are finished, bring your paper to the front desk for a special prize. (You still get a prize if you don’t find them all!) Look up, look down, look under, look over,
look high, look low, look behind... can you find the 12 book characters hidden in the room? |
Many thanks to to our good neighbor and children’s book writer & illustrator Barbara DiLorenzo, who decorated our summer Quest rocks so artfully and wrote the poetic clues that led us to them! Our thanks also to her daughter, Maddy, who sourced the rocks
for her Mom!
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Storytime
Children’s Storytime takes place each Monday beginning at 10:30am. It is designed for children ages five and under and their companions, and includes several read-aloud stories, finger plays and often a book-related activity.
We will gather Mondays at 10:30am at the Hopewell Train Station!
Children's and Family Events
Children's Books
Children’s Storytime takes place each Monday beginning at 10:30am. It is designed for children ages five and under and their companions, and includes several read-aloud stories, finger plays and often a book-related activity.
We will gather Mondays at 10:30am at the Hopewell Train Station!
Children's and Family Events
- Watch the Events Calendar for special readings or events just for kids.
Children's Books
- See Children's Books for new and recommended titles.
Summer Reading Program
The Summer Reading program is designed to encourage people to keep reading during the months of school vacation! Readers sign a pledge indicating the number of books they would like to read during the summer. There is a reward for each person who achieves their own goal, as well as an end-of-summer celebration! The library also offers special children's programs each week related to the summer reading program theme. This year's theme will be All Together Now! PS: The Summer Reading Program is open to people of all ages!
The Summer Reading program is designed to encourage people to keep reading during the months of school vacation! Readers sign a pledge indicating the number of books they would like to read during the summer. There is a reward for each person who achieves their own goal, as well as an end-of-summer celebration! The library also offers special children's programs each week related to the summer reading program theme. This year's theme will be All Together Now! PS: The Summer Reading Program is open to people of all ages!
- See Past Events for more information on last year's program.
Past Activities
Did you know that February is Library Lovers’ Month? To celebrate, we made book cover puzzles of a few of HPL’s most borrowed children’s books of 2022. Stop in and give them a try! As always, the best way to show our library some love is to come in and browse for old and new favorites!
The books that were shown the most ❤️in 2022 are:
An Elephant & Piggie Biggie! by Mo Willems, Dinosaur Roar! by Paul and Henrietta Strickland, Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball (#14) by Jeff Kinney, Have You Ever Seen a Flower? by Shawn Harris, Bathe the Cat by Alice McGinty, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (#4) by Jeff Kinney, Tick Tock Dog by Tucker Slingsby, Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey, Mama Built a Little Nest by Jennifer Ward, and Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds.
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