Tag: book

Family Storytime – Trains

Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library every Monday and Wednesday at 11:00 AM for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week!

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 27th & 29th at 11:00 AM

This month, our story times will explore different forms of transportation. Ages 0-5.

Storytime Theme
Week 4: Planes

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Family Storytime – Trains

Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library every Monday and Wednesday at 11:00 AM for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week!

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 20th & 22nd at 11:00 AM

This month, our story times will explore different forms of transportation. Ages 0-5.

Storytime Theme
Week 3: Trains

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Creative Corner – Creative Bookmarks

Create your own art using materials found around your home! Can’t make the in-person workshop? Watch a video replay on our YouTube channel. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-served basis using the Supply Request Form below.

Octavia Fellin Public Library
115 West Hill Ave.

March 17th at 4:00 PM

Create a custom bookmark using a variety of recycled materials.

Supply Request Form

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Midweek Matinee – Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

Join OFPL in-person at the Main Library every Wednesday at 3:00 PM for weekly film screenings of award-winning, classics, documentaries, newly released, and specially selected films.

Octavia Fellin Public Library
115 West Hill Ave.

March 15th at 3:00 PM

Where the Crawdads Sing (Women’s Her-story month)

2022 | PG-13 | 2 hrs. 5 mins.
A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the Deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was once involved.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.

Family Storytime – Trucks

Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library every Monday and Wednesday at 11:00 AM for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week!

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 13th & 15th at 11:00 AM

This month, our story times will explore different forms of transportation. Ages 0-5.

Storytime Theme
Week 2: Trucks

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Family Storytime – Cars

Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library every Monday and Wednesday at 11:00 AM for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week!

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 6th & 8th at 11:00 AM

This month, our story times will explore different forms of transportation. Ages 0-5.

Storytime Theme
Week 1: Cars

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Gallup Young Writers Conference

Attention 6th through 12th graders! Join OFPL, in partnership with UNM-Gallup and Gallup-McKinley County Schools, for the Gallup Young Writers Conference at UNM-Gallup on March 3rd from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

UNM-Gallup
705 Gurley Ave.

March 3rd
9:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Engage in workshops on a variety of topics taught by local educators and writers. Have a chance to meet Kit Rosewater, New Mexico author of the Derby Daredevils series. Participation is FREE!

Conference registraTION

Students must apply using the link above by February 24th.

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Hybrid Book Club – March 2023

Register below for a copy of The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich.

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. This powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman…READ MORE

Attend one of the discussions and keep the book! Discussions will be in
April via Zoom or in person at the Main Library.

Book Club Registration

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Family Storytime – Moving Colors

Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library every Monday and Wednesday at 11:00 AM for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week!

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

November 28th & 30th at 11:00 AM

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we will learn color words in Navajo and Zuni and explore the significance of different colors in these cultures. Ages 0-5.

Storytime Theme
Week 4: Moving Colors

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Family Storytime – Colorful Creatures

Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library every Monday and Wednesday at 11:00 AM for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week!

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

November 21st & 23rd at 11:00 AM

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we will learn color words in Navajo and Zuni and explore the significance of different colors in these cultures. Ages 0-5.

Storytime Theme
Week 4: Colorful Creatures

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.