Get growing with flower and veggie seeds from Meadowdale Library’s Seed Library (open throughout Spring) Take up to 2 packets per visit while supplies last. You can also check out gardening books and planting guides. 

Already have seeds? Consider donating new seed packets to help keep the seed library well stocked.

Watch and learn as our chicken eggs incubate over a couple of weeks and then make sure to come in when they are due to hatch! They "May" be ready to see the world on our May the 4th Be With You annual Star Wars Day!

Come check out the wide selection of books in all genres!

What type of books are for sale?  Paperback and hardback fiction, history, children’s and young adult, cookbooks and more!

Eighty percent of brain development happens between ages 0-3. Baby Story Time is a lapsit story time designed to help babies play, explore, and interact with their caregivers, and to develop the building blocks for reading.

Eighty percent of brain development happens between ages 0-3. Baby Story Time is a lapsit story time designed to help babies play, explore, interact with their caregivers, and develop the building blocks to learn how to read. For ages 0-2 and their caregivers. 

 

Registration begins 1 week before each program. Please register every child who will be attending.  

This story time focuses on sharing early literacy skills with toddlers by presenting stories, rhymes, or songs, and encouraging interaction through movement. Ages 2-3 years and their caregivers. 

Eighty percent of brain development happens between ages 0-3. Baby Story Time is a lapsit story time designed to help babies play, explore, and interact with their caregivers, and to develop the building blocks for reading.

Baby Artsplay!™

Greater Richmond Wolf Trap offers children ages 3 months to 36 months, along with their parents and caregivers, the opportunity to take part in a Baby Artsplay!™ residency program in their community for free. Taught by Greater Richmond Wolf Trap teaching artists, Baby Artsplay!™ Family-Based Program provides children and their parents/caregivers with classes that enhance learning and development through music, movement, and drama.

 

What classes offer parents and caregivers:

Baby Artsplay!™ classes demonstrate the important connection between performing arts and early childhood development. Once registered, parents/caregivers attend all sessions with their children and learn strategies for incorporating singing, dancing, drama, and other multi-sensory activities into their child’s daily routine to increase engagement and support learning. Parents learn how to facilitate developmentally appropriate performing arts experiences for and with their children in a child-friendly learning environment.

The Chester Library's Baby Artsplay! is a 5-week series. Registration will be capped at 15 families and includes all 5 in the series. 

To register to go: https://htru.io/SHt3 

"Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus

Use critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity as you learn the nuances of D&D and facilitate the creation of your own stories! Intended for grades 6-8. Registration begins two weeks before each program.

Indulge in a relaxed and inviting atmosphere at the Bon Air Parent Cafe. Savor a fresh cup of coffee and make some new friends while your child colors and plays with toys. 

This month we are reading Dead Edward by Ann Napolitano. Summary: One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them is a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured vet returning from Afghanistan, a septuagenarian business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. And then, tragically, the plane crashes. Edward is the sole survivor. Edward's story captures the attention of the nation, but he struggles to find a place for himself in a world without his family. He continues to feel that a piece of him has been left in the sky, forever tied to the plane and all of his fellow passengers. But then he makes an unexpected discovery--one that will lead him to the answers of some of life's most profound questions: When you've lost everything, how do find yourself? How do you discover your purpose? What does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live?

A growing population prompted the colonial Virginia government to establish over 60 counties. Explore the formation of Chesterfield County, as well as its "birth certificate" and the surprisingly circuitous route the document took before finding its way to archival. Registration begins April 1.

This book club uses Mary Pope Osborne's popular series “The Magic Tree House” to encourage children to talk about reading, science, and history. Through reading, crafts, and activities, we can take a vacation without leaving the comfort of the library! Designed for children ages 6-10 years old and their caregivers.

First session: Sat. Jan. 20 - Dolphins at Daybreak

Second session: Sat. Feb. 10 - Ghost Town at Sundown

Third session: Sat. Mar. 16 - Lions at Lunchtime

Fourth session: Sat. Apr. 20 - Polar Bears Past Bedtime

Please register each child that will be participating.

Show your love of the library with our fun-filled event.  Learn about what your library provides for you and your community.  Enjoy story time, arts and crafts, goodies, and more!  Come dressed as your favorite literary character.  

Ninety percent of brain development happens between ages 0-5. Pre-K Story Time is designed to help older pre-readers develop early literacy and social-emotional skills to get ready to learn to read, start school and grow into lifelong readers and learners. For ages 3-5 and their caregivers. Please register everyone attending, including adults.