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Summer Reading Program Kickoff: Friday, June 26, 2 p.m.

If school is out, than the Summer Reading Program must be beginning! The program -- including the ever-popular Summer Reading Game -- kicks off at a special event the day after school ends on Friday, June 26 at 2 p.m. The kickoff will feature local art teacher Mike Teator, who will draw the world’s greatest comic…

Book Club to Discuss “The Submission” by Amy Waldman, Thursday, May 7

At its next meeting, The Book Club will discuss The Submission by Amy Waldman. Waldman, a former New York Times bureau chief, has performed a rare and dangerous feat in writing this post-9/11 novel that has been on multiple "best" lists, including being Esquire's Book of the Year for 2011 and one of NPR's Top Ten Novels of that…

Juvenile Fiction Book Review: “Island of Thieves” by Josh Lacey

Every kid needs an Uncle Harvey. Uncle Harvey lives and breathes adventure. When Tom is dropped off by his parents at Harvey’s Greenwich Village apartment, Tom is in for the adventure of his life. Harvey is off to Peru to see if he can find some missing pages that might tell him where to find an…

Check Out the Library’s Spring Break Programs for Kids!

The Library is offering three special programs for children during spring break, which begins in Pelham schools next Monday, April 30, and concludes with the Easter Monday holiday on Monday, April 6. In addition to the programs below, Story Time will still be held at its usual time on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, and the…

“The Bronx the Way It Was,” Special Presentation, Sat., April 18, 1:30 pm

Take a walk down memory lane and come to the Library for Steve Samtur's 90-minute presentation featuring slides and video clips showing the Bronx in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Samtur is editor and publisher of Back In THE BRONX magazine (now in its 22nd year of publication) and is author of four books on The Bronx. For an…

The Library’s New Museum Pass Program: Guggenheim, Intrepid, Stamford Museum and More!

That Town of Pelham Public Library card in your wallet just got even more valuable. You already know it gives you free access to thousands of books and other materials and a growing list of free e-resources, but now, through the Library’s new Museum Pass program, it gives you the chance to get free (or…

Young Adult Book Review: “If I Stay” by Gale Forman

Like Susie Salmon, the dead protagonist in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, Mia is the reader’s guide to what is happening in the real world -- and the world beyond. But unlike Susie, Mia is not quite dead, but very nearly so, since the horrific car accident that killed her parents and brother. She is…

March’s Book Club Discussion: “The Zookeeper’s Wife” Rescheduled for March 19

Due to inclement weather earlier this month, the next meeting of the Library's Book Club will be on Thursday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m., when the Club will discuss The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman. The book tells the true story of how Jan and Antonina Zabinski, zookeepers at the Warsaw Zoo, saved over three…

MUD WEEK AT THE LIBRARY: MUSIC, LEGOS, GAMES, A MOVIE AND … THE RAINFOREST!

It’s certainly true that cold, wintry, February school vacation—also known in Pelham as “Mud Week”—can be a challenge for parents with young children, which is why the Town of Pelham Public Library schedules children’s activities all week long. This year, kids can explore the rainforest, learn how to train a dragon, play board games, listen…

Children’s Book Review: “The Fourteenth Goldfish” By Jennifer Holm

Eleven-year-old Ellie and her mom live a calm, quiet, life in a tiny house in San Francisco. All that dramatically changes when her new babysitter turns out to be Melvin, her own grandfather, who actually discovers a way to turn back time through consuming a rare jellyfish. Now grandpa has turned himself into a thirteen-year-old…