Announcing Montauk Library’s Banned Books Social Media Contest!    To celebrate Banned Books Week, the Montauk Library is holding a social media contest for a chance to win banned book author Harper Lee’s books To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman!  Lee’s classic work To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the top 100… Read more »

We had our last program of the summer last weekend. Children and parents had fun with sidewalk chalk and kept cool with ice pops!  We held the program in our lower parking lot on the side of our building where everyone got creative and made art with chalk.  It was a really hot day, but… Read more »

On Friday, August 21st, the library was taken over by Jason and his frogs, bugs and animals!  Kids and parents came to the library to see Jason’s show and to pet all different kinds of critters. Tons of people came and fun was had by all! Jason brought tons of different animals and insects with… Read more »

This past Tuesday we had children super heroes visit the library for a special Super Hero Story Hour.  Together we read some awesome books about super heroes! The books we read included: Ten Rules of Being a Superhero by  Deb Pilutti Do Super Heroes Have Teddy Bears? by Carmela LaVigna Coyle The Day I Lost… Read more »

This past Tuesday we had such heavy rainstorms that the children’s room was filled to bursting all day long! Children and parents came in to play with puzzles and games, read books, go on the computers and iPad and escape the weather.  I was so happy that we had two Lego programs planned for the… Read more »

Last week, Steve Petra from Petra’s Puppets visited the Montauk Library to perform his Calling All Heroes show for children and parents.  He brought his friends Ultra Duck, Eric the Super Sheep, Granny Pterodactyl and the villainous Gorgonzilla along with him and they all put on a fantastic show for everyone in attendance! Steve did… Read more »

The Montauk Library Children’s Room has a lot of new titles to choose from! Since I’ve started here in July, I’ve been ordering new titles for children and teens. I’ve added the Ladybug Girl series by David Soman to the collection, which is the perfect picture book series for those who enjoyed Pinkalicious, Olivia and… Read more »

On Friday, July 24th the Montauk Library had the National Circus Project come and perform for children and families.  Mikey and Lou hosted the show and made the audience members laugh and gasp in amazement at what they could do! The hosts had a lot of fun with the audience, joking around and explaining to… Read more »

On Saturday, July 11th, beloved children’s author Katharine Holabird visited the Montauk Library to read to young patrons and sign copies of her popular books.  Katharine Holabird is the author of the immensely popular Angelina Ballerina Series.  Ms. Holabird was very eager to meet the children and share her writing with them and had some… Read more »