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Celebrate Día at the Library


Join us for a month-long celebration of Día, also known as El día de los niños and El día de los libros. Día was created in 1996 by children’s author Pat Mora to bring together families and kids with the joy of reading.

During the month of April, we encourage children and their families from all backgrounds and cultures to come together and share their love of reading in any language. Throughout this month, you’ll find events and activities for everyone in the family at the library.

Events

Bilingual Book Reading with Leticia Ordaz
We are delighted to host Leticia Ordaz, award-winning author at the International Latino Book Awards and a local Emmy winning anchor/reporter, for a Spanish bilingual book reading of Mr. Macaw Lost in the Big City. There will be art activities, book giveaways and signings while supplies last. Children in attendance can enter to win one of four 68-inch Mr. Macaw Kites.
 

Date Time Location
April 11 10:30 a.m. Fair Oaks Library
April 16  4 p.m. Isleton Library


Bilingual Storytime Celebration
March along with the Grant High School Drum Line into a Bilingual Storytime where we will share stories and activities in Spanish and English. It will be followed by a special Mexican folkloric dance performed by Cultura es Fuerza. Children will receive a bilingual book to keep while supplies last.

 

Date Time Location
April 13  11 a.m. Colonial Heights Library
April 27 10:30 a.m. Southgate Library


Book Reading with Toba Adina-Jao
We welcome local Afghan-American author Toba Adina-Jao for a reading of her book Me, Mommy, Mantu. This beautiful story pays homage to Afghan culture while cooking the traditional dish mantu. Toba will be giving away copies of her book. Additional book giveaways will be available while supplies last.
 

Date Time Location
April 16 10:30 a.m. Arcade Library
April 20 10:30 a.m. North Natomas Library


Bilingual Book Reading with See Lor
Join us for a Hmong bilingual book reading of The Family that I Love with Hmong-American teacher and local author See Lor. There will be art activities and performances by Hmong dance groups Golden Butterfly and California Emerald. Children in attendance will receive a Hmong-English bilingual book to keep while supplies last. 
 

Date Time Location
April 30     4 p.m.     Valley Hi-North Laguna Library


Multilingual Early Learning Videos on Instagram
Enjoy a series of Early Learning videos for young children in multiple languages on the library’s Instagram page every week throughout April. This series of videos, developed by multilingual library staff, share books and model developmentally appropriate activities for you to use with your young child. We hope you’ll give them a try.




Reading Recommendations
Did you know? You can find materials in a variety of languages in our collection including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Hmong, Korean, Pashto, Punjabi, Persian, Russian, Tagalog, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Learn more about our community languages collection.