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Barnes and Noble Library Card Sign Up Celebration -- Saturday, September 17

Harker Heights Public Library Card Sign-Up Celebration at Barnes and Noble!
Saturday, September 17
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
201 E Central Texas Expy Ste 1100, Harker Heights, TX
953-5491

The Harker Heights Public Library and Barnes and Noble are proud to sponsor a Library Card event at the Harker Heights Barnes and Noble at 201 E. Central Texas Expressway, Suite 1100 in Harker Heights, TX. Whether you have a library card already or you just want to join in the fun, visit the Barnes and Noble from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. for a day packed with stories, face painting, games, contests, and more! Sign up for a library card on the spot! Call 953-5492 for more information.

Schedule of Events:
Tharr Be Books! Pirate Storytime – 11:00 a.m.
Children and families enjoy tales of adventure, facepainting, and a craft! Wear a costume if you like!

Free Books for eReaders Workshop – 1:00 p.m.
Bring in your eReader or learn more about them as Barnes and Noble and Library staff show you how to download from books from Overdrive, Gutenberg Project, Ebsco Host and more!

Game Time – 2:00- 4:00 p.m.
Adults, teens, and children come and go to play games and put together puzzles.

“My Hero Is Super” Kids Costume Contest - 3:00 p.m.
Kids birth through age 12 come dressed as your hero! Choose a superhero, career hero, famous individual, favorite book character, or even your own parent to be your hero! Just dress up and get ready to strut your stuff in our contest.

Celebrate National Library Week All This Week

Spring Fling Family Fun Night

Join us this Thursday night from 6:30 to 7:30 to celebrate spring. We will have stories, activities, and an edible craft. It's sure to spring you into the season!

Spring Break @ the Harker Heights Public Library

February Fun for Families!

Thanksgiving Day Week!

Yay! Thankgsgiving Day is almost here! There are three short days until Thanksgiving. And even though the library will be closed on Thursday and Friday in celebration of Thankgsgiving, we will have all of our regularly scheduled programs on Monday through Wednesday and even on Saturday. So yes, Wednesday lapsit, Wednesday storytime, and Saturday Grannytime are still on. We look forward to seeing you there. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to call the library at 254-953-5491.

Happy Thanksgiving from the Harker Heights Public Library Staff!

Family Fun Night Bilingual Program

Join us this Thursday, October 14 at 6:30 p.m. for a bilingual storytime. Listen to stories and sing songs in English and Spanish. Everyone is invited. Call 953-5491 for more information

Family Fun Night Harvest Festival

Everyone is invited to the library's annual Family Fun Night Harvest Festival this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Bring in the fall with stories, face painting, crafts, and even bobbing for apples (on a string). This is sure to be tons of fun! See you there! Call 953-5491 for more information.

Wednesday Storytime

Big Wednesday programs have come to an end (sad news), but Wednesday storytimes are back (happy news)! Join us for songs, stories, and activities every Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. Baby time will still be on Mondays at 10:00 a.m. Call 953-5491 or check out our website for more information. Our new fall schedule is also now available for viewing.

Tons of Fun Storytimes

Enjoy two different storytimes this week at the Harker Heights Public Library. On Wednesday at 10:00 a.m., join us for a bilingual storytime about colors. On Thursday at 9:00 and 10:00 a.m., join us for a boppin' good Jazz storytime to celebrate National Jazz Month. As always, our lapsit program will be on Wednesday morning at 9:00 a.m.

Celebrate Easter @ Your Library

This week we will celebrate Easter at all of our children's programs. Wear your Easter best for our Easter parades. Sing and make Easter music at the Mother Goose on the Loose Music Time program. Hunt for Easter eggs at our storytimes on Wednesday and Thursday at 10:00 a.m. and our Toddler Time at 9:00 a.m.

It's sure to be an egg-citing time!

A Colorful Week @ Your Library

Add a lot of color to your life and join us as we celebrate colors at all of this week's storytimes. Wednesday morning at 10:00 a.m. we will have a bilingual storytime with colors. Thursday morning at 9:00 for Toddler Time and 10:00 for Storytime for we will read about the colors of the rainbow. If you can't make it Wednesday morning, join us Thursday evening for our monthly bilingual program.
Call Jeanine Madden 953-5491 or email jmadden@ci.harker-heights.tx.us for more information.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Family Fun Night St. Patrick's Day Party!

Get your Irish on at our St. Patrick's Day Party on Thursday, March 11th at 6:30 p.m. Listen to old Irish tales, sing some ditties, and do a jig, all while enjoying some refreshments! It'll be as much fun as finding the gold at the end of the rainbow!

A New Year Full of Exciting Children's Programs

Happy New Year to all. I hope your holidays have been wonderful. We are starting this new year with a very exciting week for children's programs. We, of course, will have our regular storytimes on Wednesday and Thursday at 10:00 a.m, our regular infant lapsit time on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. and our regular Toddler time on Thursday at 9:00 a.m (click here for current program brochure). Our Thursday night program is our Reading Rovers program, and is one of our most fun programs. Kids can read to or with real live dogs trained for that very reason. These dogs are certified therapy dogs and love to be read to! Saturday is another full day with our Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments at 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. We also have a Family Scrapbooking Club on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. This is a neat program where adults who love to scrapbook can share that with their children. It's a great time for children and adults alike. Last, but not least, we will be having our Gardening Club for Kids at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. Come and learn about what gardners can do during these long, cold, months of winter.
As you can see, there is lots going on, and it's sure to be tons of fun! Hope to see you at some or all of the programs!!!!

Thursday Family Night Holiday Party!

This Thursday, December 17th @ 6:30 p.m. we will have our holiday party. We will have stories, crafts, book giveaways, refreshments, and much more! Don't miss it; it's a great way to jump start your holiday season! Remember, we have family fun night every Thursday at 6:30 p.m., unless we're closed. We will close EARLY at 1:00 p.m. on both December 24th and December 31st. We will continue our family fun nights on January 7th with the Reading Rovers Reading club. Happy Holidays and hope to see you there!

Holidays Around the World Family Storytime

Join us this Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m. for a storytime trip around the world. We will read stories about how the holiday season is spent throughout other cultures. There will be activities, songs, and fun for all! Hope to see you there!

Harker Heights Children's Book Week Festival

The Harker Heights Public Library is celebrating our own Children’s Book Week this week. This event is our way of celebrating children’s books and reading. We are excited to announce our many programs and activities to celebrate this fun-filled event. Each day we will have a new guessing game for prizes. Our super special storytimes on Wednesday and Thursday at 10:00 a.m. and toddler time at 9:00 a.m. will be filled with storytime favorites. Thursday evening at 6:30 we will celebrate by dressing up as our favorite book character, reading stories, and each child will receive a free book, compliments of The Friends of the Harker Heights Public Library. It’s sure to be a blast, so don’t miss it!!!

Dinosaur Dig

The Library is the best place for children and their parents or caretakers to beat the summer slump. Our Wednesday morning Dinosaur Dig programs at 9:30 and 11:00 are sure to be full of action and fun for the whole family. We will be digging up the bones of a Tyrannasaurus Rex (a bonified Texas dinosaur) and if all goes as planned by the end of the program we will have assemled the three foot, scale skeleton you see in the picture. We will also have stories and activities about dinosaurs. Don't miss it, you're sure to DIG it.

Thursday Night Program Change

This Thursday night, July 30, the family program will not be stories on the six flags of Texas. The theme will be "bubble fun" instead. We will be reading some really fun stories about bubbles, then we will have some messy bubble fun out in the courtyard. Join us for really wet and messy bubble fun this Thursday starting around 6:30.