Take Your Child to the Library Day February 3

Mark your calendars for a special day at the library! Carrington City Library will host Take Your Child to the Library Day on Saturday, February 3, offering a full schedule of fun events.

On the first Saturday of February, thousands of libraries sponsor events to encourage reading and to promote the many resources offered at libraries. Carrington City Library is an ideal place for families to play, make friends and discover the magic of reading.

Research shows that reading aids in brain development, especially in the first five years of a child’s life. When children are read to, their brain cells are literally turned on. Reading is one of the best activities to provide foundational language and literacy skills. That’s why it’s critical young children are read aloud to, have access to books and are exposed to literacy activities — just like the ones celebrated during Take Your Child to the Library Day.

Carrington City Library has a wide range of excellent children’s – and adult- literature. The library staff is happy to help our patrons find exactly what they are looking for, but browsing the collection allows kids to be serendipitous as they happen upon books they haven’t discovered before. They can take a bunch, read them, and then bring them back to take home a whole new pile, and it doesn’t cost anything! That’s how a lifelong reader is born.

Carrington City Library is not the library of old, full of quiet shushing! The library has activities, and talking, and playing galore. The schedule for Take Your Child to the Library Day is

• 10:00 - Storytime

• 10:30 - Crafts

• 11:00 - Library Raffle

• 11:15 - Snowman Bingo

• 12:00 – 1:30 - Crafts, treats, scavenger hunt, snowman darts and snowball bowling

Stop in for a visit. Enjoy the activities. Get a library card, and explore all the wonderful books, STEM activities, literacy tablets, STEAM-to-Go kits and more. And be sure to stop in again soon — because every day is a great day to take your child to the library.