Therapy dog owners will read stories about dogs and let you meet their own therapy dogs!

Miss Jennifer will read stories about friendship and lead early literacy activities for preschoolers. There is no activity kit for this storytime.

Stephanie Blume, a Speech Therapist with Mankato Clinic's Pediatric Therapy Services, will read a story and lead a language enrichment activity for preschoolers.

Join Miss Jennifer for a discussion about shapes, stories about shapes and a fun early literacy activity! There will be a kit for you to pick up after storytime!

Miss Jennifer will read stories about the moon and lead early literacy activity for preschoolers. There will be no early literacy kits for this storytime.

April is National Poetry Month and we're celebrating at the BECLS! Join us (via Zoom) for weekly readings each Friday evening with acclaimed and emerging Minnesota poets—we hope you'll be inspired to write a few poems of your own! Candace Black is the author of The Volunteer, Casa Marina, and Whereabouts. Her poetry and creative nonfiction has appeared widely, including in Pinyon, Great River Review, and War, Literature & the Arts. She teaches in the creative writing program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. An open mic will follow Candace's reading: we invite patrons to celebrate National Poetry Month by writing some poems and sharing their work to cap off our month-long reading series.