Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library on October 31st at 11:00 AM for a special spooktacular Halloween-themed storytime with activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week! Ages 0-5.
Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Join OFPL LIVE on Facebook @galluplibrary or Zoom for a book talk with Brian Lee Young on Wednesday, November 10th at 2:00 PM, author of Healer of the Water Monster.
When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he’s in for a pretty uneventful summer. Still, he loves spending time with Nali, and with his uncle Jet—though it’s clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Join us on Facebook and YouTube every Wednesday at 11:00 AM for stories, songs, and rhymes to chill your bones!
Calling all Gallup Pokémon GO players!
Celebrate Pokémon GO Fest 2021, by taking part in a Pokémon GO Tournament on Friday July 16th from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM outside the Children’s Branch near the playground.
Registration brackets available for ages 15 and under or 16 plus. Players must follow the Great League requirements for Pokémon levels, max CP per Pokémon: 1,500 or less.
Prizes will be awarded to winners of each tournament bracket. Players must be present to participate and claim prizes, social distancing and masks are recommended.
Tournament will be streamed on OFPL’s Twitch channel, @ofpl_streams.
See the full list of rules and regulations at https://ofpl.online/ofpl-pokemon-go-tournament/#rules
Email libtrain@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Join us on YouTube, @galluplibrary (all ages) for family-friendly crafts and step-by-step tutorials for all skill levels. Videos are posted weekly on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m.
December 3rd, 2020 – Christmas Cards
December 10th, 2020 – Create your own Snow Globes
December 17th, 2020 – No-Sew Sock Snowmen
December 24th, 2020 – Gingerbread Houses
December 31st, 2020 – Mitten Monsters
We READ, We TALK Book Club reading Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse for our January session.
Request your copy of the book and enter preferred meeting times.
Registration is limited to 30 participants, but a waiting list is available.
While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.
Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last—and best—hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much larger and more terrifying than anything she could imagine…MORE
Registration is limited to 30 participants, but a waiting list is available.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.