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Program for kids ages 2-5. Groundhog Day is coming up on Sunday! Join us for a fun-filled Groundhog Storytime, where we’ll enjoy lively tales and activities to celebrate the curious little creature and the excitement of predicting spring! Join us for themed stories, songs, rhymes, and crafts! We’ll learn early literacy concepts like colors, shapes, opposites, the ABCs and much more, to prepare our pre-school age children for kindergarten. Essex Library programs are free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged to ensure enough crafts are prepared. Register: https://engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtended.cfm?SiteID=1314&EventID=546046&PK=

Program for kids in grades 4-6. Nutmeg Book Club, a group celebrating Connecticut’s own kid’s book award for kids in grades 4-6, is BACK! Books are available for pickup starting January 2 with a special Nutmeg Book Club Kit that includes activities, stickers, bookmarks, and other goodies related to the book! This month we are reading The Canyon’s Edge by Dusti Bowling. Read the book on your own and then join us at the library for a fun discussion and related activity. Our meeting is on January 31 from 4-5 PM. About the Book: Hatchet meets Long Way Down in this heartfelt and gripping novel in verse about a young girl’s struggle for survival after a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong. One year after a random shooting changed their family forever, Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon deep in the Arizona desert, hoping it will help them find peace. Nora longs for things to go back to normal, like they were when her mother was still alive, while her father keeps them isolated in fear of other people. But when they reach the bottom of the canyon, the unthinkable happens: A flash flood rips […]