The Family Place promotes healthy child and family development, enhanced connections between families with small children and their communities and preparation for life long literacy. The workshop offers a variety of toys not found in a regular library such as a kitchen with utensils and food, a rocking boat, a tunnel, a puppet theater with puppets, dolls and cradles and dozens of fun and educational toys. Parents and their preschool children can play together, create a craft, read together and talk to professionals and make friends with the other participants. A resource area is provided with books and materials on a variety of topics such as discipline, nutrition, and child development. In the past few months, the youth staff has been getting ready for the first two parent child workshops.
Registration is required for both classes.
Call the Youth Desk for information at 350-5522. Arizona Book Festival Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 7th and plan on visiting us at the Arizona Book Festival. Friends members and Tempe Public Library staff will be staffing a booth at the festival. Thanks to a contribution from the Friends, the library will be distributing special magnets and bookmarks with the library s address, Web address, and important phone numbers and literature bags packed with information about the Friends and TPL programs and services. A number of noted authors are scheduled to appear including Tony Hillerman, Terry Tempest Williams, Ann Zwinger, J.A. Jance, Jerry Spinelli and Denise Chavez.