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Welcome!
The Wellfleet Public Library Children's and Teen Rooms serve children, teens, parents, caregivers, educators and others working with children and children's and young adult literature.
Children may have a library card of their very own as soon as they can sign their name or they turn five years old - whichever comes first. A parent's signature and verification of address are required.
Books, audio books, graphic novels, movies, and magazines may be checked out.
All are welcome to read and play.

“The mole waggled his toes from sheer happiness, spread his chest with a sigh of full contentment, and leaned back blissfully into the soft cushions. ‘What a day I’m having!’ he said. ‘Let’s start at once.’”
– Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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New Books!

Two Books of the Week-
Tried and True
&
the Best of What's New

Tried and True

Willis, Val; illus. John Shelley. The Secret in the Matchbox. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988.
Bobby has a secret and he brings it to school, in a tiny matchbox. But no one wants to hear about it, especially his teacher Miss Potts, and she takes it away. Bobby just knows there’s going to be trouble and there is: the secret in the box gets bigger and bigger whenever the teacher’s back is turned. What could it be? A marvelous tale of magic and the real, in which a classroom meets a dragon, and all’s well that ends well. Read over and over again with special attention to the additional tales in the border illustrations. A classic of rational mischief.

The Best of What's New

Santat, Dan. The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend. NY & Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2014.
Beekle is an imaginary friends who is waiting patiently for a child to dream of him and take him home. But when no little boy or girl picks him, he takes matters into his own hands and ventures into the real world to find his friend himself. Through city and wood he searches until finally he finds his perfect match. The illustrations are pencil, crayon, watercolor, and ink with just a touch of digital adjustment, leaving the pictures feeling quirky enough to have texture and character. Beekle finds his friend, and “together they did the unimaginable.” An affirming pleasure.