Past Events

Enjoy a special storytime and drawing activity with Dan Yaccarino!

(Two sessions) Explore how to use picture books to help young people identify and manage emotions, navigate relationships, and cope with difficult situations.

Join Sean Rubin and Aaron Becker as they share their recent nonfiction picture books that celebrate the tree that survived the September 11, 2011 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Join us for creative movement inspired by Grace Lin’s A Big Mooncake for Little Star. Bring your imagination and your dancing feet! 

Join us for an interactive storytime with a book that reimagines the classic mermaid tale! 

Vanessa Brantley-Newton shares her newest book, Becoming Vanessa, a story of a little girl learning to celebrate her uniqueness.

(Two sessions) Discover the difference between reading with children and reading to children in this interactive workshop.

A free day at The Carle, thanks to the Highland Street Foundation! Note: Tickets are SOLD OUT

Award-winning author and artist Grace Lin discusses ways that we can use books as tools to integrate diversity into our children’s lives

A free, mask-only day at The Carle. Note: Tickets are SOLD OUT.

In his new book, Marcus interviews author Lesléa Newman about what it’s like to have work banned or challenged in America today.

(Program is full) Join us as award-winning author/artist David Wiesner presents Simmons University’s 2021 Mary Nagel Sweetser Lecture.

A special gallery tour just for Museum Members!

A special gallery tour just for Museum Members!

In this two-part workshop we will consider how we can use picture books to support social emotional learning.

Head over to Whiskers Hollow—the whimsically detailed new world from Steve Light—for a fun road trip with Bear and friends.

Join Audrey Helen Weber as she reads her debut picture book about curiosity, cause-and-effect, and connectedness.

Create your own song book!

Learn how to select picture books that reflect the lives and identities of all readers, and discover tools for building a more inclusive book collection.

Join award-winning graphic novelist Molly Knox Ostertag as she draws and chats about writing and illustrating graphic novels, the importance of queer topics in contemporary and fantasy literature for teens, and her newest book, The Girl from the Sea, the perfect summer teen read featuring selkies, coming out, first love, and a little magic!