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Author Jessica Kim is passionate about writing books that reflect her own experience as a young Asian-American woman- and her debut novel Stand Up, Yumi Chung! is a perfect example of her clever and emotional work. Join Jessica this week for #FirstChapterFriday as she reads from Stand Up, Yumi Chung at 4 PM here on Facebook.

Join us this Monday at 4pm on Facebook Live for a fun and interactive activity that you can do at home! For this week's Make It Monday activity, Ms. Lori and special guest Kira will show us how to play a fun game called "Picture This" using household items! Play along at home and guess what Lori and Kira are creating. This winter, join Chicago Public Library and Chicago Public Schools on a learning adventure! Check out our website for more details: https://www.chipublib.or...g/learning-journey-for-kids-and-tw/ Share your creations on social media using the hashtag #CPLkids or by e-mailing [email protected] Video produced and edited by Aldo Vasquez

When you talk about children's literacy and fantastic celebrity story times, one name comes up time and time again- the queen herself, Dolly Parton! Dolly has spent decades getting books in the hands of children that need them with her foundation, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Monday at 10 AM, we'll show you one of Dolly's special bedtime readings of Max and the Tag-along Moon by Floyd Cooper. On December 9th, you can also watch the premiere of the new documentary "The Library That Dolly Built" to see how Dolly's Imagination Library came to be. So Monday morning, tumble out of bed, stumble to your computer, and pour yourself a big cup of #LiveFromTheLibrary

Episode 9 of our #BeyondBorders webseries presents: From Sausages to Sulzer: Lincoln Square On Foot! Join us as we explore the people and places that make Chicago great. Explore Chicago's rich heritage of immigration and migration, and how newcomers made the city their own and influenced and changed its growth and future. This series is hosted by urbanologist Max Grinnell.

Join us this Tuesday at 10am CST on Facebook Live for a fun and interactive story time presented by our STEAM Team! For this week's theme, Joe from the STEAM Team will be focusing on Ecology. We will read some books, do some songs and/or fingerplays along with a fun activity! Share any creations inspired by the library on social media using the hashtag #CPLkids or by e-mailing [email protected] Video produced and edited by Alejandra Santana

Please join us for a season finale event celebrating our exploration #BeyondBorders, with Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West! Mohsin will be interviewed by Donna Seaman, editor of Booklist. Exit West, was released in 2017 and debuted on The New York Times Bestseller List. It was a finalist for the Booker Prize, and winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize for Fiction and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Chicago Public Library chose Exit West as the 2020 One Book, One Chicago selection.

Join us for the final #VoicesofChicago storytime of 2020, with Librarians Alexa and Erica, who are sharing Yiddish folklore. These stories are just like folk tales you may already know, with a moral at the end and a LOT of humor! Tune in Thursday, December 17 at 10am.

Join us every Monday at 4pm on Facebook Live for a fun and interactive activity that you can do at home! For this week's Make It Monday activity, Ms. Tara from the North Austin branch will show us how to make a knitting loom. With just a few household items, you can make your own DIY knitting loom and use it to make some fun knitting projects! Follow along at home and gather these items: - Toilet Paper Roll or Tube - Masking Tape or Duct Tape... - Glue - Scissors - 4 or 8 popsicle sticks - Rubber Bands - Pencil - Googly Eyes or Buttons Share your creations on social media using the hashtag #CPLkids or by e-mailing [email protected] Video produced and edited by Aldo Vasquez

Join us for a conversation with writer, designer, educator, and activist Hoda Katebi and School of the Art Institute of Chicago associate professor Abigail Glaum-Lathbury this Wednesday at 6 PM.#BeyondBordersar them discuss the intersections of fashion, politics and human rights, presented as part of Slow Fashion Month and our One Book, One Chicago season #BeyondBorders.

Join us for an episode of our webtv series "Beyond Borders in the Archives". Join us as we explore the Chicago Public Library archives and special collections and uncover treasures! Using our Gads Hill neighborhood collection and Chicago Theater Collection, we'll explore the immigrant experience in the early 20th century, specifically using theater games and programs in settlement houses. We'll draw in content related to Hull House, and its eventual explosion into the Chicago theater scene and improv.

Join us for an episode of our webtv series "Art Beyond Borders", exploring art from around the world. Dating back to the Bronze Age, bangles are truly cross-cultural, having become a jewelry stable across the globe. Join us for this quick 15 minute video as we learn a little more about this traditional jewelry item and create our own fabric bangle.

Join us for another episode of our webtv series "Chicago Neighborhoods Beyond Borders", hosted by urbanologist Max Grinnell. This week's episode: Commercial Endeavors: The Loop Transformed by New Arrivals. In this tour of the Loop, we'll learn about how immigrants and newcomers found work, started businesses, and sought to improve their lives in their new home of Chicago

Join us every Tuesday at 10am CST on Facebook Live for a fun and interactive story time presented by our STEAM Team! For this week's theme, Librarian Megan from the STEAM Team will be focusing on Shapes. We will read some books, do some songs and/or fingerplays along with a fun activity! Share any creations inspired by the library on social media using the hashtag #CPLkids or by e-mailing [email protected] Video produced by Fernando Galvez

From his roles on Chicago Med to Shameless on Showtime, Nick Gehlfuss has a passion for bringing storytelling to life! Join Nick for Monday's #LiveFromTheLibrary story time that shines a light on the power of kindness. Make sure to stay tuned for a triple story time from Librarian Jerry afterward!

Chicago is frequently thought of as an immigrant hub in the popular imagination. While it certainly continues to see new arrivals from distant and not-so-distant lands, some groups have been more welcome than others. In this talk, history and urbanologist Max Grinnell will look at how New Englanders, Germans, Irish, and African Americans became a part of this rapidly growing metropolis. (Pictured: German-American Festival, Robert W. Krueger Photograph Collection)

Author Blue Balliett has written some incredible middle-grade children's books- including the Chicago-set, award-winning Chasing Vermeer! She also is a former Chicago teacher. This Friday at 4 PM, watch her read a ghostly #Halloweek selection from Out of the Wild Night and give advice to young writers. Perfect to get you in the Halloween mood this rainy week #LiveFromTheLibrary #FirstChapterFriday

Join librarian and amateur cook Ashley Rayner at noon on Friday in her home kitchen as she explores culture through food. Each dish is made from cookbooks that you can find in the Chicago Public Library collection. This episode, we'll make Chicken Adobo with Garlic Fried Rice, as found in The Adobo Road Cookbook.

Mara Tapp is an award-winning broadcast journalist, longtime host of The Mara Tapp Show on WBEZ and founder of Cool Classics!, an organization that promotes literacy and play for underserved students. She's also a former Chicago Public Schools substitute teacher! Friday on Live From The Library, she'll bring that literary knowledge with a reading of Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney. Then, Librarian Jessica follows with some spider themed stories Arachnophobes, beware!

In honor of last week's #BestOfTheBest release, let's throw it back to June when The Second City cast member Sarah read one of our Best Children's Books of 2020, Just Like A Mama by Alice Faye Duncan! Check out her and Librarian Daylily again here. -------------------------------------------------- This Tuesday you can tune in for another great #LiveFromTheLibrary from Second City cast member Sarah Dell'Amico! She's reading Just Like A Mama by Alice Faye Duncan, followed by story time from librarian Daylily! Plus, you can find some of Daylily's picks and Alice Faye Duncan's other books on CPL's Black Lives Matter E-books for Kids list on our website. See you there

Actress Annet Mahendru of The Americans on FX Networks and TWD World Beyond joins #LiveFromTheLibrary Wednesday morning with a bilingual English/Hindi story time! Watch as she reads Under the Great Plum Tree by Sufiya Ahmed and / Banana for Two by Ellen Mayer. See you at 10 AM Wednesday!

Open House Chicago, presented by Chicago Architecture Center, is regularly one of our favorite events of the year. This year, of course, things look a little different- but you can still get a look inside our the library with videos from our Special Collections team! With over 80 locations, millions of books, movies and CDs, and serving the entire city of Chicago, it's a big job to move library materials every day! Have you ever wondered how your books get to you? Watch this behind the scenes tour of one of the hidden secrets of CPL - the sorting machine! #OHC2020

Join us for some very fun and slightly spooky hands-on activities you can do at home. We'll do a little kitchen science to make a melting ghost, use some tasty treats and engineering skills to build a little structure and make some creepy creatures with our home made puffy paint! For kids 6 and up and their families.

Get ready to rock with this week’s #VoicesOfChicago story time during Chicago Public Library's #LiveFromTheLibrary! Librarian Christian will share his love of live music with a rock & roll story, and he’ll be joined by Librarian Becca from the Bezazian branch which is in the heart of Uptown’s live music scene! Tune in Thursday, October 22 live at 10am for this special story time, and check back every week for a new Voices of Chicago story time!