Read-Aloud
Kindness Read-Aloud
On Wednesday, December 4, our libraries had special storytimes that focused on the theme of kindness. If you missed out, enjoy virtual storytimes read by our Queens Public Library staff.
Be Kind
Enjoy our 2018 playlist of It’s Time for Kind Storytime Videos in Bengali, English, French, and Spanish!
Read-Aloud Programs on December 4
Read-Aloud Toddler Storytime
Join us for our It's Time For Kind storytime program!
10:15am
Arverne 312 Beach 54 Street
Storytime
Babies, toddlers, and their caregivers are invited to join us for storytime that shows the importance of being kind to one another.
11am
Astoria 14-01 Astoria Boulevard
Toddler Time
Children ages 12 months to 3 years with their caregivers can enjoy listening to stories about being kind. Registration is not required.
11am
Auburndale 25-55 Francis Lewis Boulevard, Flushing
Toddler Time
Join us at the library as we focus our storytime for ages 2-5 on being kind to one another.
11am
Baisley Park 117-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica
Storytime at Bay Terrace Library
Please join us for a special storytime, with books about being kind and respectful towards others. We will also sing songs, learn finger play rhymes, and enjoy movement activities. This is for toddlers ages 19-36 months, with adult caregivers.
10:30am
Bay Terrace 18-36 Bell Boulevard, Bayside
Read-Aloud
Join us for a read-aloud for ages 18 months to 2.5 years.
11am
Join us for a read-aloud for children ages 6 to 10 years.
4:30pm
Bayside 214-20 Northern Boulevard
Love and Kindness Storytime
Come with your toddlers to enjoy stories of love and kindness and various coloring sheets.
10:30am
Bellerose 250-06 Hillside Avenue
Kindness Read-Aloud
Come and join us for toddler time! This week, we will focus on acts of kindness and how to be kind with a few books. This program is designed for children that are 18 months to 3 years old.
11am
Briarwood 85-12 Main Street
Storytime
Families of all ages are welcome to join us for stories and coloring.
12pm
Broad Channel 16-26 Cross Bay Boulevard
Toddler Storytime
Toddlers ages 18 to 36 months are invited to join us for a kindness-themed storytime. A parent or guardian must be present. Registration is required and can be done by signing in and picking up a free ticket in the Children's Room thirty minutes before each session.
10:30am
Broadway 40-20 Broadway, Astoria
Storytime
10:30am
Cambria Heights 218-13 Linden Boulevard
Toddler Storytime
Join us for a kindness-themed toddler story time! Children who are walking through age 3 are welcome with their caregivers. Registration is required and opens up the Friday before the program.
10:15am & 11am
Court Square 25-01 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
Storytime
Enjoy a storytime to celebrate kindness!
10:15am & 11am
Douglaston/Little Neck 249-01 Northern Boulevard
Storytime
Children ages 2-5 are welcome to participate in our special storytime about kindness. Picture books will be read, finger plays will be performed, and a special coloring craft will take place.
11am
East Flushing 196-36 Northern Boulevard
It's Time for Kind for Babies!
Enjoy a kindness-themed storytime for babies 0-11 months old and pre-walkers and their parent or caregiver to continue our celebration of It's Time For Kind at the Queens Public Library!
11:30am
Elmhurst 86-07 Broadway
Mother Goose
Enjoy a story, songs, and rhymes followed by play for 0-18 months. Today we introduce the concept of kindness.
10am
Flushing 41-17 Main Street
Toddler Storytime
Toddlers ages 18-35 months and their parents/adult caregivers will hear stories, sing songs, and do finger plays and movement games while enhancing their early literacy skills in a fun, warm environment! This week we will focus on the concept of kindness and how to be kind. Online registration required - registration opens two days before each session. Check-in begins promptly at 10:15AM; if you do not check in at starting time, your spot may be given to another child.
10:15am
Forest Hills 108-19 71 Avenue
Mother Goose Storytime
Infants and toddlers ages 3-17 months and their parents/adult caregivers enjoy stories, songs, rhymes, finger plays, and movement games with their baby; today we introduce the concept of kindness. Online registration required - registration opens two days before each session. Check-in begins promptly at 11AM; if you do not check in at starting time, your spot may be given to another child.
11am
Forest Hills 108-19 71 Avenue
Read Aloud with Music and Movement
Infants, toddlers, and caregivers enjoy songs, movement, finger plays, puppets, and other activities.
10:15am
Glen Oaks 256-04 Union Turnpike
Storytime
Babies, toddlers, and their caregivers are invited to join us for songs, stories, and rhymes all about kindness.
10:30am
Glendale 8000 Cooper Avenue at the Atlas Park Mall
Storytime
Bring your young children to the library to hear a story and make a craft on the theme of kindness.
10:15am
Hillcrest 187-05 Union Turnpike, Flushing
Storytime
Join us in reading stories about kindness, doing finger plays, and singing songs. We will be reading "The Kindness Book" by Todd Parr and learning about many examples of kind acts appropriate for this age group.
11am
Hollis 202-05 Hillside Avenue
Toddler Time
Children ages 12-36 months and their caregivers will read, sing, color, and have fun together.
11:30am
Howard Beach 92-06 156 Avenue
Toddler Time
Join us for stories, songs, and rhymes on the theme of kindness, followed by a playtime for children ages 18-35 months and a parent/caregiver. Online registration required - registration opens 24 hours before each session. Each child attending needs to be registered, however adults attending with children do not. Check-in begins thirty minutes prior to the program on the first floor; if you do not check in by five minutes before starting time your spot may be given to another child.
10:30am & 11:30am
Hunters Point 47-40 Center Blvd., Long Island City
Mother Goose Time for Little Ones
Join us for a special storytime for 0-18 months as we celebrate kindness!
10:30am
Jackson Heights 35-51 81 Street
Storytime
Bring your young children to the library to hear a story and make a craft on the theme of kindness.
11:45am
Kew Gardens Hills 72-33 Vleigh Place, Flushing
Read-Aloud and Holiday Cards for the Homebound
Children are invited to an It's Time for Kind read-aloud and craft activity where participants will create holiday cards for the homebound.
4:30pm
Langston Hughes 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona
Storytime
Enjoy stories, songs, finger plays, and music that celebrates love and kindness. This for ages 18 months to five years.
10:30am
Laurelton 134-26 225 Street
Toddler Storytime
Children ages 12 months to 3 years with their caregivers can enjoy listening to stories about being kind.
11am
Lefferts 103-34 Lefferts Boulevard, Richmond Hill
Toddler Storytime
Children ages 12 months to 4 years with a parent or other adult caregiver can join us for a read-aloud time with stories about kindness. We will also sing songs, nursery rhymes, and have coloring pages.
11am
Lefrak City 98-30 57 Avenue, Corona
Toddler Time
Join us for toddler time.
10:30am
Long Island City 37-44 21 Street
Toddler Time
Come and join us for toddler time! This week, we will focus on acts of kindness and how to be kind.
10:30am
Maspeth 69-70 Grand Avenue
Preschool Storytime
Come and join us for preschool storytime! This week, we will focus on acts of kindness and how to be kind.
11:30am
Maspeth 69-70 Grand Avenue
Storytime
Join us for a storytime about kindness for ages 5-8.
4pm
McGoldrick 155-06 Roosevelt Av. (Off Northern Blvd), Flushing
Toddler Time
Enjoy songs, finger plays & simple story books focusing on kindness for toddlers & their parents.
11am
Mitchell-Linden 31-32 Union Street, Flushing
Read-Aloud
Learn about kindness at storytime.
10:30am
North Forest Park 98-27 Metropolitan Avenue, Forest Hills
Mother Goose Time
Children ages 6 months to 2 years and their caregivers are welcome to enjoy songs, stories, finger plays, and all sorts of fun. No registration is required for this program. Just bring yourselves and have fun!
10:30am
North Hills 57-04 Marathon Parkway, Little Neck
Picture Book Time
Join us for our storytime program for children ages 3-5.
11:45am
North Hills 57-04 Marathon Parkway, Little Neck
Storytime
Babies, toddlers, and their caregivers are invited to join us for songs, stories, and rhymes all about kindness.
10:15am
Ozone Park 92-24 Rockaway Boulevard
Kindness Read-Aloud
Join us for our read-aloud event! During this program, children will listen to books and stories that speak of the importance of kindness. The program will conclude with an arts and crafts session. Supplies are limited.
3:30pm
Peninsula 92-25 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Rockaway Beach
Storytime
Join us for a special It's Time For Kind Storytime!
3:30pm
Pomonok 158-21 Jewel Avenue, Flushing
Toddler Time
Join us for this special session of Toddler Time devoted to how we can be kind to each other. This is for preschoolers and their caregivers.
10:30am
Poppenhusen 121-23 14 Avenue, College Point
Toddler Time
Join us for our It's Time For Kind storytime program!
11am
Queens Village 94-11 217 Street
Storytime
Come join us for a kindness-themed storytime and songs.
11am
Queensboro Hill 60-05 Main Street, Flushing
Picture Book Time
This is a thirty-minute special story time about kindness for children ages 3-4 years old accompanied by their parent or caregiver that includes stories, songs, and simple movement. Coloring pages will be given out in the children's room after storytime. Registration is required. To register in person, speak to the librarian at the children's desk.
11:15am
Rego Park 91-41 63 Drive
Picture Book Time
Please join us for Picture Book Time about kindness.
11:30am
Richmond Hill 118-14 Hillside Avenue
Storytime
Join us to read stories and share experiences about being kind or being treated kindly by others.
10:30am
Ridgewood 20-12 Madison Street
Read-Aloud
Children birth to 3 years old with their caregivers will enjoy listening to stories, songs, dancing, and playing with bean bags. The children’s librarian will be reading a book related to being kind.
10am
Rochdale Village 169-09 137 Avenue, Jamaica
Storytime
Children and their parents/caretakers will listen to stories around kindness. There will be singing, dancing, finger plays, and arts and crafts, too.
11am
Rosedale 144-20 243 Street
Read-Aloud/Make a Chain of Kindness
This program is for children of all ages. The children will listen to kindness-themed stores. Then they will make a kindness chain.
4pm
St. Albans 191-05 Linden Boulevard
Storytime
Join us for our read-aloud event! During this program, children will listen to books and stories that speak of the importance of kindness. The program will conclude with an arts and crafts session. Supplies are limited.
10:30am
Seaside 116-15 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Rockaway Park
Storytime
Enjoy story books and teaching your children about acts of kindness. This is followed by making a craft with your child ages 1 to 3 years old.
10:15am
South Ozone Park 128-16 Rockaway Boulevard
Toddler Time
Join us for a read-aloud time with stories about kindness, songs, and nursery rhymes. This is for ages 19 months to 3 years old. First-come, first-served.
10am
Sunnyside 43-06 Greenpoint Avenue, Long Island City
Toddler Time
It's Time for Kind at the Toddler Learning Center. Listen to a kindness story for kids ages 1 1/2 up and caregivers. Please come and join us.
10:30am
Whitestone 151-10 14 Road
Read-Aloud Toddler Time
Children ages 2-4 and their parents/caregivers can join us for this special read-aloud of stories, songs, finger plays, making music, and parachute fun time.
11:15am
Windsor Park 79-50 Bell Boulevard, Bayside
Storytime
Use music to bring kindness into the world! A caregiver must attend this program for ages 1-3.
10:15am
Woodhaven 85-41 Forest Parkway
Storytime
Join us for a special storytime to spread kindness for ages 1-3.
10:15am
Woodside 54-22 Skillman Avenue
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Queens Public Library | 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, NY | T 718.990.0700