Join us in the Youth Area for storytime, songs, and lots of fun! Recommended for ages 2-5. No preregistration needed.

Books, rhymes and songs for our littlest library patrons, followed by open time for babies to play and c

Ring in the new year-at noon! Families are invited to usher in 2025 at the Noon Year’s Eve singalong and celebration. Live music with Linda Bassick, a kid-friendly countdown, and lots of merriment!

Books, rhymes, songs, and lots of open-ended play for toddlers (recommended for ages 1-3) and their caregiver

Dance, wiggle, and sing with local musician/early educator, Linda Bassick. This program is geared towards babies, toddlers and preschool aged kids, but all ages are welcome! 

What goes into telling your own story?  Find out when Sean Prentiss moderates this panel of memorists, Thomas Christopher Greene, Rob Mermin, and Adrie Kusserow.  

Not quite sure what this new blend of romance and fantasy is all about? Come find out more at Romantasy: An Emerging Genre !

Moderator Amber Roberts will be joined by bestselling authors Katherine Arden, Laurie Forest, and Madison Rene, as they discuss where the fantasy ends and the romance begins.

We're pleased to announce our next panel for this year's Green Mountain Book Festival: Grappling with Vermont's Complicated Past. Moderator J. Kevin Graffagnino will be joined by authors Elise A. Guyette, Pamela N. Walker and Mercedes de Guardiola while they discuss the more difficult parts of Vermont history.

We're thrilled to welcome accomplished poets Stephen Cramer, Toussaint St. Negritude, Alison Prine, and Neil Shepard to this year's Green Mountain Book Festival, where they'll each be reading from their work.

Tis the season for all things spooky! Join us for Spooky Season: The Ins-and-Outs of Writing Horror, where moderator Daniel Mills will be joined by horror experts Kristin Dearborn, Margot Harrison, and Brian Staveley, to discuss how to write a very scary tale.