Posts from Kips Bay Library

They use their minds, guts, and sheer good luck to solve the case!

If you enjoy the antics of this macabre and eccentric family, you may enjoy these stories, aimed at middle grade readers, of other quirky family adventures.

As you enjoy your apple or pumpkin pie and a cup of warm cider or cocoa, relax and enjoy these eerie tales that will put you in the mood for the season.

Have a seat, open the pages, and see what adventures await and what magical places you'll travel to.

Birds are all around us and these nonfiction titles below are a great start for young readers who would like to learn more about them.

Eco-fiction are books about the environment and humans' relationship with it. In these works the Earth is not a secondary character, but a main character and influence in the human world.

These books of poetry and stories told in verse speak to and celebrate Black children as well as tell some of the courageous and remarkable stories of their ancestors.

This list of over 100 books celebrates notable achievements by Black people in science, technology engineering, the arts, math and medicine.

These feel-good books can help you start the new year with an uplifting attitude.

Turn off your lights, turn on your flashlights and be prepared to be spooked by these thrilling tales.

These titles can help you talk to kids about the importance of hygiene and how to achieve it as well as learn about previous pandemics and other illnesses and diseases to help put COVID-19 and its challenges into historic perspective.

Listen to these stories with your family and continue the storytime tradition.

Considering these stories started as oral tradition, it seems fitting to enjoy them as audiobooks.

Have you lost your drive to do the things you love and that keep you active? There is an outlet that doesn't require much to keep your mind and body well maintained.

Collect NYC stories and make history. Volunteers needed in the LES, Chinatown, and Kips Bay.

Join the New York Public Library as we collaborate with the Children's Museum of Manhattan for the Summer Reading Challenge's Science Clubs! Educators will lead weekly workshops exploring simple machines and their unique functions.

Thanks to Lifetime Arts for securing funding and inviting our library system to participate, NYPL is once again able to offer free sustained art courses, taught by professional teaching artists, for adults age 55 and over. Seventeen branch libraries have received funding that enables them to host these classes, which will take place from February-November 2013, and which cover a wide variety of arts including: painting, sculpting, collage, memoir-writing/performance, drawing, and quilt-making.

Because of the great interest generated over the years, many of the 

Visit NYPL's BiblioCommons for these lists and many more. You can also create your own and share them with us in the comments! See below for some interesting staff picks from the past month, on topics both timely and timeless:

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