All Events

Join us for a virtual storytime via Zoom! Preschool storytime is geared for 3-5 years. Each week, Monday's and Friday's class will be the same. Please enter your e-mail address for instructions and connection details.

Grades K-6
Are you a Minecraft fan? Share what you've been working on in the world of Minecraft over Zoom! Please include your email address for connection details.

Endurance: A Year In Space, A Lifetime of Discovery is a stunning, personal memoir from Scott Kelly, the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station. It provides a message of hope for the future that will inspire generations to come. Pick up a copy at the Information Desk or Curbside, read and join this thoughtful discussion.

Whether you are starting a business or already an established entity, the Business Resource Center (BRC) can help you in every stage of your journey. Please join us for a virtual orientation to see what we can do for you.

Grades K-6
Join us for a virtual Creativebug class and we'll do some drawing! Supply kits for registered participants will be available to pick up at the library beginning January 5. If you are unable to pick up a supply kit, a list of materials will be emailed to you along with your Zoom link. Please include your email for connection details.

Are you a new mom or a mom with young children looking for a casual and relaxed book club? Join us via Zoom as we discuss "Exit West" by Mohsin Hamid. Copies of the book are available at the library's Greeter Desk or via Curbside.

"Exit West" by Mohsin Hamid -- Two young lovers engage in a furtive affair shaped by local unrest on the eve of a civil war that erupts in a cataclysmic bombing attack, forcing them to abandon their previous home and lives.

Zoom meeting link will be emailed the day of the discussion.

Time to get the wiggles out virtually! Join us and we'll move and groove together to fun songs and rhymes! Please enter your e-mail address for instructions and connection details.

Would you like to earn service hours and make a difference at the library? Join the Teen Library Council! Help put together and run programs, discuss library and community projects, recommend books and materials, and more.

Register with the best email to send you and invite to our programming space.

Grades K-2
Join us for a virtual book discussion of Cam Jansen and the Snowy Day Mystery by David Adler. Read the book independently or with a family member. Registered participants can pick up a copy of the book beginning January 6 during Grab & Go hours in the library or using our curbside service.

geared for preschool and younger
Let's do some art over Zoom! Registered participants can pick up a supply kit from the library beginning January 14. If you are unable to pick up a kit, a list of supplies will be included with your Zoom link. Please include your email address for connection details.

Join Beatles expert, author, and radio personality Professor Moptop (Gregory Alexander) as he discusses Beatlemania and all the excitement surrounding the Fab Four! Using rare audio and news clips, the Professor will discuss 1963-64 -- the time period during which the Beatles fame spread throughout Europe, just before they came to America.

Register here for Zoom webinar link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8ExrVWMnT1eBw7f69ProVg

Join us for a virtual storytime via Zoom! Preschool storytime is geared for 3-5 years. Each week, Monday's and Friday's class will be the same. Please enter your e-mail address for instructions and connection details.

WPL and Literacy DuPage host an English Conversation Group every Saturday morning. Practice your English and learn new phrases in a friendly environment via Zoom! Everyone is welcome!

This program is a Zoom Meeting so you can engage and interact with the leader and others. Please turn your microphone and camera on.

Interested in volunteering at the library and becoming a reading buddy to kids? Please email teenread@wheatonlibrayr.org to sign up for a time slot.

Grades K-6
Find a new reading friend! Register to virtually read with a teen volunteer. After registration, we'll help you pick a book to share together!

Grades K-2
Register for a link to our monthly Kahoot quiz for the chance to win a book! Please include your email address for instructions and a link to the quiz. Quizzes will be sent out February 1.

Join us for a virtual storytime via Zoom! Great Beginnings is geared for birth-23 months. No storytime February 26. Please enter your e-mail address for instructions and connection details.

grades K-6
Start your month off right! Join us over Zoom as we participate in activities and movement that promote joy and mindfulness. We'll be working through the book Breathe Like a Bear. Please include your email address for connection details.

geared for preschool
Will the groundhog see his shadow this year? Join us for a Groundhog Day storytime over Zoom. Please include your email address for connection details.

Time to get the wiggles out virtually! Join us and we'll move and groove together to fun songs and rhymes! Please enter your e-mail address for instructions and connection details.

Grades K-6
Celebrate Black History Month as we read some picture book biographies over Zoom! Each week, we'll introduce you to an important historical figure or two. Please include your email address for connection details. Please register for each session individually.

geared for preschool
Join us over Zoom as we participate in fun stories, rhymes, activities, and movement that promote joy and mindfulness. Please include your email address for connection details.

Grades 3-6
Join us for a virtual arboreal build! Feel free to use Legos, Minecraft, or other building materials/programs you have at home. We'll all build at the same time and share our creations at the end of the program. This program will be over Zoom. Please include your email address for connection details.

Join your fellow community members for a facilitated discussion in small groups to reflect on the issues brought up in the Talking About Race program series. This program will be held via Zoom meetings and we ask that all attendees turn their mics/cameras on and be prepared to participate. In partnership with the parents group DEI200 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Council for CUSD 200.

If you did not attend our Talking About Race program series, we recommended viewing them in preparation for this program: wheatonlibrary.org/DEI