Families with children ages 2 and up can join Wilton Library to celebrate Wilton Reads! In this interactive family storytime centering the Hispanic experience and including some Spanish, there will be stories, rhymes, songs, and movement activities. The day of the program, each family will receive a copy of the book to keep. Registration is […]
Join Wilton Library for a special poetry seminar series with Judson Scruton as part of this year’s Wilton Reads program which features Cristina Henriquez’s The Great Divide, an epic novel on the construction of the Panama Canal. His series will run on four Thursday mornings starting on April 4 at 10:30 a.m. They will distribute […]
Kids ages 4-9 can join Wilton Library for this year's rainforest focused Wilton Reads program geared just for them. They will read Zonia's Rain Forest by Juana Martinez-Neal and do a rainforest-based craft. The day of the program, each family will receive a copy of the book to keep. Registration is required. Drop-ins welcome if […]
Join Wilton Library for a Wilton Reads screening of the PBS documentary film Panama Canal. On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower. This film, using an extraordinary archive of photographs and footage, interviews canal workers, and explores firsthand accounts of […]
Join Wilton Library for a Wilton Reads screening of the PBS documentary film Panama Canal. On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower. This film, using an extraordinary archive of photographs and footage, interviews canal workers, and explores firsthand accounts of […]
For Wilton Reads 2024, Wilton Library's teen pick is Silver People by Margarita Engle. Set during the building of the Panama Canal, this novel in verse follows two main characters and a collection of different fictional and historical voices. Join to discuss the book and create some poetry of your own! Registration is required as […]
Join Wilton Library for a special poetry seminar series with Judson Scruton as part of this year’s Wilton Reads program which features Cristina Henriquez’s The Great Divide, an epic novel on the construction of the Panama Canal. His series will run on four Thursday mornings starting on April 4 at 10:30 a.m. They will distribute […]
Students in grades 3-6 can celebrate Wilton Reads by joining Wilton Library to discuss the graphic novel Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Gabriela Epstein. Five Latinx kids who barely know each other get stuck cleaning the cafeteria in the mornings before school. To their surprise, they find themselves secretly working together to make a […]
Join Wilton Library for a fascinating Wilton Reads presentation, "Making the Dirt Fly: Building the Panama Canal," on May 1, when Eric Ward from the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, will discuss the massive construction project of excavating 238,845,587 cubic yards of material, damning the Chagres River, dealing with devastating landslides, and […]
Wilton Reads 2024 culminates with Wilton Library's author talk event featuring Cristina Henriquez, acclaimed author of The Great Divide. The Great Divide is a fascinating historical novel about the Panama Canal construction, one of the greatest historical engineering feats. It importantly explores laborers, locals, activists, doctors, scientists, and others interwoven stories. They are clearly the […]
