Terrific Toddlers, for children 1-2 years old and their caregivers uses stories, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, rhythm and sensory activities to help young walkers learn vocabulary and develop gross motor skills.

Babies and Books for Children up to one year and their caregivers,will focus on a baby’s understanding of spatial relationships, language, communication and body movement. The program will consist of songs, lap games, rhythm and sensory activities and simple picture books. The program will also teach some baby sign language.

Child’s Play is a drop-in program for children 0-2 years and their caregivers. The songs, rhymes, lap games and books in this program will promote rhythm, coordination and verbal skills in young children as well as bonding between child and caregiver.

After the United States entered the WWII, Capt. John L. McCrea served as a naval aide to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He supplied material for the president’s fireside chats, helped arrange the Casablanca Conference, and worked with such prominent leaders as Winston Churchill, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, and General Douglas MacArthur. Despite his important work for the president, McCrea yearned for active service. Persuading FDR to release him from Washington, he was given command of the USS Iowa, the country’s newest and largest battleship. Captain McCrea’s War ends in April 1945, when McCrea was summoned back to Washington after President Roosevelt’s death.
Julia C. Tobey worked as an editor, writer, and researcher before earning a law degree. Vice Admiral John L.McCrea was her stepfather. After retiring from her law practice, she edited McCrea’s reminiscences to create this memoir. The book will be available for purchase following the event, courtesy of Wellesley Books.

Children ages 6 and up are invited to stop by and create.

Join Sarah Gardner and bring your little ones to play instruments, sing & dance along. Become part of our little library band!
Funding for Music Enrichment Programs provided by the Friends of the Needham Public Library.

Join Sarah Gardner and bring your little ones to play instruments, sing & dance along. Become part of our little library band!
Funding for Music Enrichment Programs provided by the Friends of the Needham Public Library.

Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon, a dapper Koala who presides over a once-grand theatre that has fallen on hard times. Now facing the crumbling of his life’s ambition, he has one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world’s greatest singing competition. Five lead contestants emerge: A mouse who croons as smoothly as he cons, a timid teenage elephant with an enormous case of stage fright, an overtaxed mother run ragged tending a litter of 25 piglets, a young gangster gorilla looking to break free of his family’s felonies, and a punk-rock porcupine struggling to shed her arrogant boyfriend and go solo. All the contestants arrive under Buster’s marquee, believing that the competition will be their shot to change the course of their life.
This movie is sponsored by the Needham Free Public Library.

Come and meet people who are interested in the Pokémon Card Game. Exchange cards and build up your decks! This will occur in the Young Adult Room on the second floor, and is sponsored by the Needham Free Public Library.

For children ages 5-9 years old with Lyn Jekowsky..
Please bring a yoga mat or beach towel and a water bottle.