Dance Me a Story: Monday, November 7 at 11:30am. The Joanne Langione Dance Center brings us this fun, family event where music, movement and literature align to encourage exploration and imaginative play!  

Virtual Pajama Time! Monday, November 7 at 7pm. Get ready for bed by listening to these stories and songs that will help you drift off to dreamland. Put on your pajamas, cuddle with a loved one and bring your favorite stuffed animal friend! For kids ages 3 and up. 

Wake Up Sunshine Storytime: Tuesday, November 8 and Thursday November 10 at 10:30am OR 11:15am. Start your day with stories, songs and rhymes led by Newton Free Library children’s librarians. For children 0-4 and their caregivers. 

Dial a Story: Listen to a children’s librarian read you a story over the phone. Call 617-796-1415 to listen to a story anytime you like. A new story is recorded weekly. For kids of all ages.

Dino Adventures: Tuesday, November 8 at 4pm. Come meet the real live descendants of the dinosaurs. Our friends at Animal Adventures will be bringing live animals and fossils to talk about the relationship between modern day animals and the dinosaurs. Registration is required. This program is for ages 5-12. Your Friends' membership made this program possible. Join here!

Matt Heaton Family Singalong: Wednesday, November 9 at 10:30. Matt Heaton brings an infectious energy to his singalongs. Peppered with well known classics and a few soon-to-be classics, and performed with panache on guitar & banjo, Matt makes music for parents and kids alike. Your Friends' membership made this program possible. Join here!

Take and Make Craft: Starting November 14 pick up a take home craft at the children’s desk. Geared towards children ages 3-6 this month’s craft is a spiky hedgehog puppet. Available while supplies last.  

Sensational Play: Monday, November 14 at 10:30am. Drop by anytime between 10:30 and 11:30 for self directed sensory activities for ages 2-4. There will be stations set up around the room each with a different activity for children to explore at their own pace. 

Watercolor Craft: Monday, November 14 at 4pm. Learn about the importance of water conservation using the book We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom which tells the tale of a Native American girl standing up to protect this important resource. Then do a craft activity that explores water based paint and how it reacts to other materials. For kids ages 5 and up. 

My First Storytime: Friday, November 18 at 10:30am. A songs and stories lapsit program for children, birth through 23 months, and their caregivers.

Draw Along: Wednesday, November 16 at 4pm. Draw Along Creatures: Di-November edition continues with a focus on Stegosaurus! After creating a drawing of this popular creature from simple shapes, the artist instructor will show you how to create scenes from just your imagination. Space is limited. Registration (required) is only available for ages 7-10.

Di-November: Dino Picture Books

Check out our full list of Dino Picture Books here.

The Dinosaur Expert by Margaret McNamara, illustrated by G. Brian Karas. Kimmy is excited when her class visits the natural history museum. She collects fossils and wants to be a paleontologist. But a classmate tells her girls can't be scientists, and when she looks around, all she sees are old photographs of male paleontologists. Her teacher shows her a new exhibit, with an an award-winning female paleontologist, and Kimmy's confidence is restored.

Stegothesaurus by Bridget Heos, illustrated by T.L. McBeth. Stegosaurus loves synonyms -- more than the average dinosaur. He loves them so much that he's a stegothesaurus! When he meets a scary allosaurus who loves words just as much as he does, they end up spending a lovely day together, admiring their vocabularies. But how did the allothesaurus learn all of those fancy words?

I'm hungry = ¡Tengo hambre! by Angela Dominguez. A kind bluebird sits on a hungry dinosaur's shoulder, who can't decide what he wants to eat. They go back in forth in English and Spanish (Does the dinosaur want a banana? "¿Plátano? No.") trying to decide. Nothing seems to do the trick, because the dinosaur can only think of one thing he wants, and this particular bluebird is just too sweet to eat.