2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist
The library is looking for your short stories -- honestly, your shortest stories -- for the annual 73 Words in the 732 Short Story Competition.
Your short story can be about anything; the only requirement is that it must be 73 words or fewer. This competition is open to all ages so your entire family can submit entries. A panel of library staff selects the best short stories, which are posted on the library's website for the whole community to enjoy.
East Brunswick Meds Unite presents a fun, engaging doctor craft!
Join us for a doctor-themed storytime, fun facts, and make your doctor clothespin craft with a Take & Make kit from the library! Stop by the library during the week of April 19th to get your kit.
Storytime is appropriate for pre-K and up. Younger kids may need some help from a grown-up to assemble the craft.
East Brunswick Astronomy Club presents a fun, engaging constellation craft!
Join us for a constellation-themed storytime, constellation fun facts, and make your own constellation telescope with a Take & Make kit from the library! Stop by the library during the week of April 19th to get your kit.
Storytime is appropriate for pre-K and up. Younger kids may need some help from a grown-up to assemble the craft.
Kids, would you know how to help a friend who was having trouble breathing after accidentally eating something they're allergic to? Join Sydney, a local Ambassador Girl Scout, as she teaches kids all about serious allergic reactions. In this interactive video, kids will learn to recognize when they or another person may be having a dangerous allergy and what to do to handle the situation.
The information Sydney presents was reviewed by her advisor, and Allergist and Immunologist. To learn more, you can visit the resources that Sydney used:
Join our friends at Wellness Around the World for their first full episode! Atlas is visiting Egypt, to learn from Ahmed and Youssef about the delicious and healthy foods they eat, how they play and have fun, and what they do to stay healthy and happy. This ongoing series is created by four medical students at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Follow Atlas's adventures to learn about the healthy foods and fun activities kids across the planet enjoy, as well as what their daily lives are like!
Farmer Brown puts the other animals to bed but gives up on Duck, who sets out to find just the right spot -- and snack -- to help him sleep.
Truly devoted to the idea of public art, Haring created murals wherever he went. From Matthew Burgess, the much-acclaimed author of Enormous Smallness, comes Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring. Often seen drawing in white chalk on the matte black paper of unused advertising space in the subway, Haring's iconic pop art and graffiti-like style transformed the New York City underground in the 1980s. A member of the LGBTQ community, Haring died tragically at the age of thirty-one from AIDS-related complications.
Taylor, a hedgehog, and his friend Sydney, a skunk, set out from their comfortable burrow under Miss Nancy's potting shed on an expedition to see more of the "Whole Wide World."
The team from the popular kids' science podcast Brains On! brings readers a humorous, fact- and fun-filled look at all things biology -- from animals and plants to the human body and the microverse.
This little girl knows her hair is great just as it is. When people ask, "Why is your hair so BIG?" she answers, "Why isn't yours?" Her hair is soft, it protects her, it's both gentle and fierce. While some might worry about how it's different and try to contain it, she gives it the freedom to be so extraordinary it almost has a life of its own.