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Join us at our Peaks Island branch for special activities designed to foster an early love of reading for infants, toddlers, and their caregivers. Rhythm & Rhymes for Babies happens every Friday at 10:15 AM.

 

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Join us every Wednesday! Join us at the Downtown Library for our weekly Story Time for Babies! Every Wednesday at 10:30 AM we offer stories, rhymes, and songs for babies 0-24 months and their caregivers.

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Your Next Great Read, the library’s popular reading advisory service, is now available for kids, teens and their caregivers! Just fill out a form, sit back, and wait for your customized selections of titles from Youth Services team.

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Our virtual programming includes archives of our Music & Storytelling, Learning with PPL, and Read Alouds. All videos can be found on our YouTube.

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Portland Public Library’s early literacy initiative Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library ® is a project of the Association for Library Service to Children and the Public Library Association (divisions of the American Library Association.) This parent education initiative stresses that early literacy begins with the primary adult in a child’s life. Developing early literacy skills has a long-term impact on children’s reading achievement and academic success.

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Up Next at the Library:
Oct14
Closed for Indigenous Peoples' Day12:00am - 11:59pm
Downtown Library
Oct15
Work Permit Clinic for Asylum Seekers10:15am - 5:00pm
Downtown Library
Oct15
Story Time for Children Downtown10:30am - 11:00am
Downtown Library
From the PPL blog:
Wandering Stars: October Staff Picks
Looking for a good book? PPL library staff share a few of our picks for fall.   More »
Meet Eliza: Connecting Compassion to Community
Read about Eliza's role at PPL as a Community Resource Coordinator.   More »
Deep Water: August Staff Picks
In August we plunge into nonfiction and novels, movies and music and adventures, fire and water!   More »
Contact the Librarian
Kelley Blue   Email »
Youth Services Director
(207) 871-1700 x772
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