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On Saturday, September 29th around 60 parents and kids got down and dirty with food at a special Sensory Storytime at Wheelock Branch. Children's Librarian Elizabeth Covington created several interactive stations around the room for kids to explore including; stringing cereal necklaces, painting with apples and broccoli, playing with waterbeads and more. Families had a…

Wheelock Branch 3:00pm – 4:30pm Tuesday, October 23 Tuesday, November 6 Tuesday, November 20  Games and activities featuring everyone's favorite construction toy! If you're a great Lego builder, or a first timer, this is the place for you. Open to anyone interested, there is no need to sign up. This will give children the opportunity…

This summer the walls and pillars at Wheelock Branch were covered with the amazing artwork of our younger patrons. As part of the Summer Reading Club, kids were invited to "Draw a picture about a book you've read and bring it to the library." From June to August, Wheelock received dozens of book-related drawings. Here…

Join us at Wheelock Branch to discuss The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, November 7, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and…

Join us at Wheelock Branch to discuss The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, October 3, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the…

Join us at Wheelock Branch to discuss, In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, September 5, 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Bestselling and award winning writer Erik Larson offers his most compelling story with In the Garden of Beasts, an intense account of one professor's experience with the "New Germany" in 1933. Suffused with the…

Starting Saturday, August 4th and continuing all day, every day through Saturday, August 11th at the Wheelock Branch of Tacoma Public Library, come browse a selection of donated and former library materials -- books, CDs, DVDs and other media. You’ll probably want to bring a book bag or two. At these prices, it's easy to…

1. Where are you from? I am originally from Southern New Jersey, but moved to New York City. 2. What is your favorite color? My favorite color is maroon. 3.What animal would you like to be and why? I would like to be a cat, so I could sleep all day. 4. What is your…

Join us at Wheelock Branch to discuss The One and Only Ivan, June 6, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life. This…