Story Times – Mondays starting 1/6

Story times for a range of ages!

Baby Story Time (ages 0-2) @ 10:15am: Join Miss Kayla for stories, songs, and rhymes!
Preschool Story Time (ages 3-5) at 11:00am: Join Miss Carolyn for stories, rhymes, and crafts!

NEW! After-School Board Game Club! 1/17 @ 3:00pm

Drop into the Children’s Room after school to play an old favorite, or learn a new game!

First and third Fridays each month.

Ideal for grades 2+. We have board games for all ages!

MLK Jr. Day Closing – Monday, 1/20/25

The library will be close Monday, January 20 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Enjoy the holiday!

The Bookies – Tuesday, 1/21 at 7:00pm (In-Person & On Zoom)

The Bookies is Goodwin Library’s book club! This month’s pick is Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

We will have multiple copies available for check out – just stop by to pick one up! New members are always welcome.

Summary: Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

Watercolors for Kids – Homeschool & After-school Sessions – Tues. 1/28

This month, we will learn how to paint snowflakes!

This program is open to ages 6-10 and requires registration.

Click here to register for the Homeschool Session (2:00pm).

Click here to register for the After-school session (3:30pm).

Writer’s Group – Tuesday, 1/28 at 5:30pm

Come meet other local writers!

Share the writing projects you’ve been working on, get feedback, and brainstorm ideas.

You can participate in person or on Zoom! Please email Amy at acornwell@goodwinlibrary.org if you would like the Zoom link.

Lego Saturdays! Every Saturday, from 10:00am to 1:30pm

We have tons of Legos in the Children’s Room – stop in for some building fun and see what you can create!

We also have Duplos for little ones!

Staff Pick!

How to Staycation Like A Snail by Naseem Hrab

Snail is an epic explorer … kind of. He loves the quiet things about adventures, like reading maps, hiking along slime trails, and collecting souvenirs. On big vacations, he finds the sights, sounds, and unfamiliar foods way too overwhelming. In fact, his favorite part of a vacation is when he gets to return to his home SHHHweet home.

So, while his friends take a trip to the city, Snail and his buddy Stump decide to have an adventure in their own backyard—a staycation! The pair smell the silence, listen to the SHHH SHHH of the waterfall, and read their guidebooks with their indoor voices. Just when they start to wonder if they’ve run out of things to do, they notice something new: parachute seeds falling from the sky! The seeds have arrived for a vacation, and who better to show them around than Stump and Snail?

Snail and Stump’s staycation reveals the unexpected joys of staying home and promises that readers will find wonder around every corner, however close to home they may be.

Staff Pick!

When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman

Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl has captivated and inspired readers for decades. Published posthumously by her bereaved father, Anne’s journal, written while she and her family were in hiding during World War II, has become one of the central texts of the Jewish experience during the Holocaust, as well as a work of literary genius.

With the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the Frank family’s life is turned inside out, blow by blow, restriction by restriction. Prejudice, loss, and terror run rampant, and Anne is forced to bear witness as ordinary people become monsters, and children and families are caught up in the inescapable tide of violence.

In the midst of impossible danger, Anne, audacious and creative and fearless, discovers who she truly is. With a wisdom far beyond her years, she will become a writer who will go on to change the world as we know it.

New Story Trail Book!

Walk and read The Leaf Thief by Alice Hemming! Thank you to Chestnut Hill Chimney & Hearth for sponsoring this story.

The Story Trail is located at the McCarthy Trail next to the Public Safety Complex at 160 NH-153.

Thank you to our 2024 Story Trail Sponsors: The Perkins Family, Chestnut Hill Chimney & Hearth, Energy Resources Group, and the Mason Family!

We Have a Little Free Library!

Take a book, leave a book!

There are all kinds of books in our little free library! The top shelf has children’s books, the bottom shelf has adult books. Stop by and check it out – it’s right outside our front door!

WIC at the Goodwin Library

The Goodwin Library is pleased to host Strafford County WIC once a month on Thursdays for their clinics.

If you have an appointment, you can find the WIC clinic in our community room, which is upstairs from the main floor of the library. Elevator access is available.

Don’t hesitate to ask staff for directions – we are happy to help!

You can reach the local Strafford County WIC office at (603) 332-4358 or the State WIC Agency at 1-800-942-4321. You can also visit dhhs.nh.gov for more information about the NH WIC program.

Handicap Entrance

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The library’s Accessible entrance is located at the rear of the library, off the bank parking lot.