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Start: 10:30 am
End: 6:30 pm
Filled with fun activities, storytimes and event! Stay tuned for details and times! Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
All Ages Come listen to beautifully told children's stories and sing along to your favorite songs! Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Come meet other new and expecting parents in the community. Make new friends and get answers to some of your most pressing questions. Also find product samples for Moms and Dads. Led by Patty Dougherty Patty Dougherty has been a part of expectant parent's lives for 25 years, teaching childbirth classes, pre and post-natal fitness and attending births as a doula. She has been the Childbirth Educator at Women's Care in Redwood City since 1997. Patty's certifications include CAPPA (Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association) and for fitness, Dancing Through Pregnancy and Motherwell. Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Bronwyn Lewis, the amazingly talented artist who painted our beautiful Start: 1:00 pm
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Expecting? What About Your Older Children? A wonderful, educational event for both parents and big siblings! Join Dianne Danzig, RN, for an open-ended discussion on preparing children welcoming new babies into their families. Dianne will also demonstrate and practice diapering and wrapping “babies like burritos” with big brothers and big sisters-to be. Children should bring a doll or stuffed animal. Dianne has taught over 2,000 children in Sibling Preparation Classes at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley and John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, and is the award-winning author of “Babies Don’t Eat Pizza - A Big Kids’ Book About Baby Brothers and Baby Sisters.” Dianne Danzig, RN, has taught over 2,000 children for 20 years at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley, CA, and John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, CA, about babies joining their families. Dianne is a neonatal nurse clinician, pediatric nurse, andeducator on numerous healthcare subjects, including sibling preparation for the newborn. While on staff and as a transport nurse in Colorado and California, she has cared for well babies and infants in intensive care. Dianne and her husband have two sons and live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 2:30 pm
Join the Chamber of Commerce and the Reading Bug family for an official, traditional Grand Opening Ceremony - the ribbon-cutting! Music to follow! Start: 2:30 pm
End: 3:30 pm
Come sing, dance, shimmy and shake to original and well-known children's songs by this talented duo! Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Ages 4-8 will enjoy this storytime the most, but all are welcome Author Tim Myers will talk about his children's books, then tell a magical story. Be prepared, just as with the fairies in the old days, you just might be spirited away! Tim Myers is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, and lecturer in education and English. His Good Babies (2005) earned a strong review from Kirkus. Basho and the River Stones (2004) was a Junior Library Guildselection, got excellent reviews in The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and a starred review in SchoolLibrary Journal; it was also a NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book 2005, and is beingadapted and performed as a play by the Bret Harte Elementary School After-School Theater Project, Burbank, CA. Tanuki’s Gift (2003) got an excellent boxedreview with art in the New York Times and was chosen as a “Best Book of the Year” by NickJr. Magazine, among other honors. Basho and the Fox (2000) was read aloud on NPR by Daniel Pinkwater, made the New York Times bestseller list for children’s books, and was chosen as a SmithsonianNotable Children’s Book, a Children’s Book Council “Not Just for Children Anymore” selection, and a Bank Street Irma Black Honor Book, among other honors. Tim’s placed numerouspieces with top children’s magazines (Cricket group, Cobblestone group, Appleseeds, Storyworks, Highlights, New Moon)—won a national poetry contest judged by John Updike and has an adult poetry chapbook coming out—won a prize in the international Writers of the Future Contest for science fiction/fantasy—and has published much other fiction, non-fiction and poetry for kids and adults. He was a SCBWI Golden Kitepicture-book judge for 2002 and has a new children’s book in press. Tim spent fourteen years as a classroom teacher in the States and overseas, has fourteen years’ university experience and has been a professional storyteller for over 25 years. His wife directs the reading program at SCU, his older son is working on a Ph.D. in rhetoric in New Mexico, his younger son is in gradschool in Montana, and his daughter is a book-gluttonous UC Berkeley student and "Daily Californian" blogger. Tim is the oldest of eleven children and can actually whistle and hum at the same time.
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