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Ocean Adventures with Alison Teal: the female Indiana Jones

Virtual Virtual Event

Alison Teal, the Female Indiana Jones shares her adventures across the globe. Alison Teal spent her childhood exploring remote corners of the Earth, encountering exotic people and places and investigating...

Little Read Author Event with Marsha Diane Arnold

Virtual Virtual Event

Our Little Read Lakeshore program is thrilled to virtually host this year’s Little Read author, Marsha Diane Arnold. She will share about the inspiration, research and writing of her bilingual...

Little Read Literacy Days

Virtual Virtual Event

Reading our Little Read book is only half of the fun! Getting together with others to enjoy our love for the book adds to the fun! Head out to Patmos...

Galápagos Girl / Galapagueña StoryWalk®

Leave your screens behind and walk with our friends at Loutit District Library on a Galápagos Girl/Galapagueña StoryWalk® at Rosy Mound Natural Area in partnership with Ottawa County Parks. Walk...

Michigan I-O Big Read/Little Read concert

Virtual Virtual Event

Music was a key part of a whaler’s life. Some of their songs were for working. For example, shanties helped sailors to pull their oars in concert. Others helped make...

StrikeTime’s Adventures of Adela: Episode 2

Virtual Virtual Event

Adventure to the Galápagos with Striketime Dance Company as Valentina guides Adela through the Islands. Valentina and Adela learn more about the unique creatures of the Galápagos islands and the...

Writing Non-Fiction with Dr. Natalie Dykstra

Join Dr. Natalie Dykstra to learn all about writing non-fiction! Our NEA Big Read program is thrilled to include Dr. Dykstra in our 2020 program. Dr. Dykstra will share her...

America Recycles Day Celebration

Virtual Virtual Event

Living Sustainably Along the Lakeshore joins the Big Read Lakeshore to discuss the themes introduced in In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick. In the Heart of the...