Track Your Summer Reading Online

This summer, young readers -- teens and adults, too -- can log onto a free new service and track their reading online.

When you visit the Online Reading Page of the Edgartown Library, you can create your own account and keep a record of the books you read this summer. You can share reviews and read the reviews of others, and at the end of the season you can even print out a list of your reading -- that is, if you want to depart from the paperless approach of this new system.

It's been a great summer of special children's programs this year -- built around the state's summer reading theme, Go Green!  Click here to download a printable brochure with a summary of all the summer children's programs at the Edgartown Library.

The Pinkalicious Party --

Held on August 27, the Pinkalicious Party with author Victoria Kann was a great success. If you'd like to view the photo album, we've posted a set of images from the event on Picasa online. Click below to explore the album.

Pinkalicious

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 Every Week in our Children's Room...

• Toddler Time (ages 1-3) — Saturdays at 10:30 am  
• Story Hour (ages 3-5) — Thursdays at 10:30 am 

 . . .  at Libraries Around the Island:

Mondays

Story Hour with Jen McHugh (ages: infants & toddlers), 10:30am at the West Tisbury Library.

Tuesdays

Stories and Songs (all ages), 10:30am at the Chilmark Library.
Story Time (ages 0-2), 10:00-10:30am at the Vineyard Haven Library.
Story Time (ages 3-5), 11:00-11:30am at the Vineyard Haven Library.
Chess Club (ages 6-18), 6:00-7:00pm at the Vineyard Haven Library.

Wednesdays

Toddler Story Hour (ages 1.5-3), 10:30am at the Oak Bluffs Library.
Story Hour (ages 3-5), 10:30am at the West Tisbury Library.
Preschool Story Hour (ages 3-5), 11:30am at the Oak Bluffs Library.
Sleepy Time Story Hour, 7 p.m. at the Edgartown Library.

Thursdays

Story Hour (ages 3-5), 10:30am at the Edgartown Library.
Drop-in Crafts (ages 5-10), 3:30-4:30pm at the Vineyard Haven Library.
Teen Night (ages 12-17), 6:00-7:30pm at the Vineyard Haven Library.

Saturdays

Toddler Time (ages 1-3), 10:30 a.m. at the Edgartown Library.
Drop-in Arts & Crafts, 10 am-4pm at the West Tisbury Library.
Stories and Songs (all ages), 10:30am at the Chilmark Library.
Story Hour and Art, 11:00-11:45am at the Aquinnah Library.

Monthly

Wii Games (ages 8-11), at the Vineyard Haven Library.
Children’s Movies, at the Vineyard Haven Library.

Resources

The Children’s Department has three main spaces. Left of the entrance is the Young Adult area, set apart by a bank of six public computers, with a table for homework and two reclining chairs for comfortable reading. In the center of the room are the fiction and nonfiction book shelves. On the far side of the room is a space for younger children, with a sofa for friendly reading sessions and lots of kid-sized chairs and soft throw-rugs, set beside a wall filled with picture-books. Along that wall are the Children’s Department collections of videos, DVDs and audio books.