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Storytime and Stay & Play @ Downtown
2025-10-13 10:30:00 2025-10-13 11:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Storytime and Stay & Play @ Downtown Join us for Storytime for ages 0-5 featuring songs, rhymes, lap bounces, and stories. After Storytime, stay for Stay & Play! Downtown Branch - Community Room

Monday, October 13
10:30am - 11:30am

Add to Calendar 2025-10-13 10:30:00 2025-10-13 11:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Storytime and Stay & Play @ Downtown Join us for Storytime for ages 0-5 featuring songs, rhymes, lap bounces, and stories. After Storytime, stay for Stay & Play! Downtown Branch - Community Room

Downtown Branch

Community Room

Join us for Storytime for ages 0-5 featuring songs, rhymes, lap bounces, and stories. After Storytime, stay for Stay & Play!

Join us for Storytime featuring songs, rhymes, lap bounces, and stories designed to help preschoolers and babies develop early literacy skills. This program is designed for children ages zero to five and their caregivers, but all ages are welcome! After Storytime, stay for Stay & Play to reinforce early literacy skills through play and create connections with other families.

AGE GROUP: | Kids 3-5 years | Kids 0-3 years |

EVENT TYPE: | Storytimes/Laptimes | Early Literacy |

Downtown Branch
Phone: 831-427-7707
Branch manager
James Lee

Today's hours

Closed

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Thu, Sep 18 10:00AM to 6:00PM
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Sat, Sep 20 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Sep 21 1:00PM to 5:00PM
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