Storytimes near Bogota Public Library

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Kids ages 3-5 can join Mr. Tommy for the summer with Unearth a Story-Storytime! The book selections will be inspired by our summer reading theme, Unearth a Story. Register one spot per child. Please note: 7/16 will be a special guest event and there will be no storytime on 7/23

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Kids ages 3-7 can come make a craft inspired by our summer reading theme, Unearth a Story! Register one spot per child.

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center, Bogota Public Library

Join us for a book talk with Bogota's own Christine DeFazio! She will be discussing her recently released book, Bronx Visual Identity from Subway 'Writers' to Mural Artists. Ms. DeFazio will be joined by Rita Flores and SNAKE 1, two artists featured in her book. Get a chance to learn all about graffiti art and its history! Ms. DeFazio is an author, curator and educator, working in the South Bronx, NY.

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Calling all students in grades 6-12. Come play video games on our Nintendo Switch, play board games, craft, or just hang! Snacks will be provided! Registration Recommended.

Bogota - Children's Area

Miss Jen is back and so is Saturday Storytime! Families can visit the library for some stories and songs to get your weekend going. Register one child per spot.

Bogota - Children's Area

Join us for an afternoon of interactive literacy including Spanish and English stories and songs. Ven a disfrutar con nosotros de una tarde de cuentos y canciones en español e inglés. Se requiere registro / Registration Required There will be no storytime on the following dates/ No habrá cuentos en las siguientes fechas: 7/20, 7/27, 8/24, 8/31

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Join us for a fun discussion about Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin Part 2 by Erin Hunter and adapted and illustrated by Natalie Riess and Sara Goetter. You can pick up a book at the front desk. Summary: Allegiances are shifting among the Clans of warrior cats that roam the forest. With tensions so delicately balanced, friends can become enemies overnight, and some cats are willing to kill to get what they want. Fireheart is determined to find out the truth about the mysterious death of the former ThunderClan deputy Redtail. But as he searches for answers, he uncovers secrets that might be better left hidden. In the heat of a blazing summer, Fireheart struggles to handle sinister omens, an apprentice with a shocking secret, and a devastated Clan leader who is a shell of her former self. And as the forest gets hotter and hotter, every cat braces for the coming storm....

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center, Bogota Public Library

Did you miss any of our crafts in 2026? We have some leftover materials that we'd love you to use! Join us and make one or more of the crafts you may have missed. All supplies will be provided. Registration required.

Bogota - Young Adult Area

Stop by the library to pick up our newest activity for teens! Kits will be available to pick up inside the library. No registration or reservations required. Please note that crafts are available on a first come, first served basis. Only 1 craft per person permitted. Be sure to share your craft results to our Facebook or Instagram pages - @bogotalibrarynj!

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Join Mr. Tommy as we watch videos for step-by-step drawings of anything from a kangaroo to a krabby patty! Please register one spot per child.

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Join us to make some big dinosaur eggs and a camouflaged nest made of natural materials to place these eggs in! You’ll plant your nest with seeds and plants for the baby dinos to eat when hatched. Take nests home, water & watch grow, as predators walk right past this camouflaged creation! This event is great for kids in grades 1-5. Register one spot per child.

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Join Mr. Tommy for a fun storytime geared towards youngsters ages 0-3. This program will include a combination of stories and songs that will keep your children engaged the whole time! One spot per child and registration is required. **Please note the 7/22 event will be Mr. Corbitt Storytime. You can register HERE. There will be no storytime on 9/2

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Come to the library and play some board games! The library will have several games out for you and your friends to play! Registration is required. One spot per child.

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center, Bogota Public Library

All crocheters are welcome to join the Crochet Club! Gather with others as you work on your own projects. Supplies are provided by the Library. Please note: there is no teacher, so this is not a good program for someone who wants to learn. But if you have a little experience and are looking for a fun informal environment this is the program for you! Registration is recommended.

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Join us for a very special performance with Pink Flamingo Puppet Show of The Mysterious Egg! "What are Fox and Pig to do? They have discovered a mysterious egg in the woods. Should it be a snack, or be taken care of, to hatch? Join Pink Flamingo Puppets, and puppeteer Diane Koszarski in solving this mystery - and coping with a very hungry baby T-Rex!" This event is perfect for kids ages 3-6. Register one spot per child.

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Kids ages 3-7 can come make a craft inspired by our summer reading theme, Unearth a Story! Register one spot per child.

Bogota - Lounger

All adult knitters, crocheters, and other needlework crafters should come join this fun stitching social event! Bring your projects and compare notes with other fiber enthusiasts! This event will be held both in person (in the lounge room in the back of the library) as well as virtual for those that do not want to attend in person.

Bogota - Olsen Park, Bogota Public Library

The Bogota Public Library and the Recreation Committee are pleased to again bring you Summer Movie Nights in Olsen Park! Bring your own chairs and blankets and come enjoy an outdoor screening of Hoppers! Snacks will be provided by the Recreation Committee and the Library will have goodies to give out, too. The movie will start about a half hour after sunset. We hope to see you there! Summary: In this animated comedy adventure, animal lover Mabel seizes an opportunity to use a new technology to "hop" her consciousness into a lifelike robotic beaver and communicate directly with animals. As she makes amazing discoveries, Mabel befriends a charismatic beaver and must rally the entire animal kingdom to face a major, imminent, human threat.

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center, Bogota Public Library

The Friends of the Bogota Library are proud to collaborate with EZ Ride Community Transport Services and the Bogota Police Department to host a very important program on e-scooter safety. As e-scooters become more prevalent, it's more important than ever to be sure that everyone is safely sharing the road. This presentation, designed for parents and their children, will be a visual and age appropriate discussion. Prizes will be given! Registration recommended, click here to register.

Bogota Public Library

To celebrate America's 250th birthday, we welcome Mallory Mortillaro back to discuss American art! We all know the story of the Revolutionary War, but how much of our understanding is colored by the way the war was depicted by artists? Paintings of the American Revolution have been essential in the way that the war was understood, both at the time of the conflict and for generations after. This lecture will explore well-known paintings such as Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware, John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence, and Asher Durand’s The Capture of Major André. This lecture will take place on Zoom.

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Join Mr. Corbitt for Musical Storytime! Musical Storytime is an energetic and enriching storytime/singalong/concert hybrid for 6 months - 6 years old, in which he sings to picture books based on popular songs across all decades and genres with some children’s songs or nursery rhymes sung in between each book. Register one spot per child. **In order to make the most room for moving and grooving, we ask that you do not bring strollers to this event. Thank you for your understanding**

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center, Bogota Public Library

All crocheters are welcome to join the Crochet Club! Gather with others as you work on your own projects. Supplies are provided by the Library. Please note: there is no teacher, so this is not a good program for someone who wants to learn. But if you have a little experience and are looking for a fun informal environment this is the program for you! Registration is recommended.

Bogota - Lounger, Bogota Public Library

The Summer Mystery Book Club is back! In July, we'll be reading Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto. Copies of the book will be available at the Circulation Desk. "Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. Vera doesn’t know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of . . . swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer. What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. As a protective mother hen, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police?" - from the publisher

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Kids ages 3-7 can come make a craft inspired by our summer reading theme, Unearth a Story! Register one spot per child.

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center, Bogota Public Library

The July Food for Thought title is The Wedding People by Alison Espach. Copies of the book will be available at the Circulation Desk. Registration is recommended. "It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years―she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan―which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other. In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined―and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us." - from the publisher

Bogota - Children's Area

Miss Jen is back and so is Saturday Storytime! Families can visit the library for some stories and songs to get your weekend going. Register one child per spot.

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center, Bogota Public Library

Do you enjoy reading cookbooks and testing new recipes? Then join the club! Each month, a cookbook is selected for members to explore. Participants make a recipe from the book at home to share at our monthly meeting, where we’ll discuss the book and recipes. In July, we'll be making dishes from Padma's All American: Tales, Travels and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond by Padma Lakshmi. Copies of the book will be available at the Circulation Desk.

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Kids in grades 3-5 can come do STEAM inspired projects. Teamwork and creativity will be encouraged. Register one spot per child.

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center

Join Mr. Tommy for a fun storytime geared towards youngsters ages 0-3. This program will include a combination of stories and songs that will keep your children engaged the whole time! One spot per child and registration is required. **Please note the 7/22 event will be Mr. Corbitt Storytime. You can register HERE. There will be no storytime on 9/2

Bogota - 2nd Floor Senior Center, Bogota Public Library

All crocheters are welcome to join the Crochet Club! Gather with others as you work on your own projects. Supplies are provided by the Library. Please note: there is no teacher, so this is not a good program for someone who wants to learn. But if you have a little experience and are looking for a fun informal environment this is the program for you! Registration is recommended.