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Join us Saturday July 18th at 2pm to unearth a sunny flower or tiny dinosaur with needle felting as part of our summer reading programming! In this crafting workshop, we will use colorful wool roving, and special felting needles to create imaginative creatures and flowers. No experience necessary, all supplies will be provided. 

Note: Flowers are beginner friendly and dinosaurs are best if you already have experience with needle felting.

Spots are limited. Registration required.

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Jeanette Bradley has been an urban planner, an apprentice pastry chef, and the artist-in-residence for a traveling art museum on a train. Now she writes, draws, and edits books for kids.  She is the author and illustrator of Something Great and Love, Mama, and co-creator of the nonfiction poetry anthologies No Voice Too Small, No World Too Big, and No Brain The Same. Her books have won the Green Earth Book Award and the Social Justice Literature Award.  Jeanette lives in Rhode Island with her family.

Join us as Kate Woodworth discusses her new book, Little Great Island.

On Little Great Island, climate change is disrupting both life and love.

After offending the powerful pastor of the cult where she’s lived for a decade, Mari McGavin must flee with her six-year-old son. With no money and no place else to go, she returns to the tiny Maine island where she grew up—a place she swore she’d never see again. There Mari runs into her lifelong friend Harry Richardson, one of the island’s summer residents, now back himself to sell his family’s summer home. Mari and Harry’s lives intertwine once again, setting off a chain of events as unexpected and life altering as the shifts in climate affecting the whole ecosystem of the island…from generations of fishing families to the lobsters and the butterflies.

Little Great Island  illustrates in microcosm the greatest changes of our time and the unyielding power of love.

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Kate Woodworth is the award-winning author of the novels Little Great Island and Racing into the Dark and the creative force behind the grassroots climate change initiative, Be the Butterfly, that invites everyone to perform one small act or behavioral change to help mitigate climate change. 

A passionate lover of the natural world, Kate writes about the impact of climate change on our food supply on her Substack, “Food in the Time of Climate Change.” She has appeared on C-Span2 Book TV; Good Morning, Utah; NPR’s Maine Calling; and Good Day, Maine, and her essays on climate fiction and the role of fiction writers in the climate discourse have been published by the Climate Fiction Writers League.

Please register to reserve your spot.

 
For more information, contact the library at [email protected] or 401-847-8720 ext. 208.

The Friends of the Newport Public Library will hold their Summer Book Sale from Monday, Aug 3 to Saturday, Aug 8 in the lower level lobby. All Adult and Children’s books in the sale are $1.00. Cash and check are accepted.

Visit the Friends page for more information about the bookstore.

Our film series continues this season! Held Fridays at 2:00pm in the Friends Program Room. Light refreshments provided!

Jul 10: Jurassic Park (1993) – Rated PG-13

Jul 24: The Lost City (2022) – Rated PG-13

Aug 7: National Treasure (2004) – Rated PG

Aug 21: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – Rated PG