Join us every Friday morning at 10:30am on the turtleback in front of the library for storytime, musical guests and fun for kids and families. These are outdoors, weather-permitting! No registration required. Any dates not listed here are TBD.

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JUNE 4: Storytime: Summer Fun with Laurie Leppink Lusik. Let's get excited about summertime in Leelanau County. 

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JUNE 11: Storytime: Silly Stories. We want to make you laugh this week! 

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JUNE 18: Special guests LUUNAPPI! Norm Wheeler and Patrick Niemisto will be with us for some snappy songs, poems and stories. 

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JUNE 25: Yoga Storytime with Daryl Allison-Busch. Daryl is a former kindergarten teacher and a current yoga instructor. She'll share some stories featuring yoga and teach us some yoga poses. Bring a towel or mat if you like.

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JULY 2: The Legend of The Cherry Queens! Author Sally Meese will join us to read her book The Legend of The Cherry Queens and celebrate all things cherries.

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JULY 9: Zoom call with the Miami Zoo at Suttons Bay Library.

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JULY 16: I'm A Frog! Special guest Mary Robertson, youth services coordinator at Suttons Bay library, joins us for some Elephant and Piggie stories and story theater.

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JULY 23: It's All About the Honeybees! Beekeepers Greg Griswold and Therese Povolo will join us to read their book It's All About the Honeybees and share stories and information about honeybees. They will even bring an observation hive; don't miss this one! 

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JULY 30: Lake Effect! Lake Effect is a perfect storm of family fun and music. Lake Effect consists of Tiyi Schippers on lap dulcimer, percussion, and puppets; David Bunce on guitar and banjo, and Zak Bunce on doghouse bass. Get ready for fun and interactive musical adventures!

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AUGUST 13: Long, short, hairless and flat! Wiggly, waggly, skinny and fat!   Join Storyteller, Jenifer Strauss for Animal Tales about their Tails! How did they get them? How did they lose them? Why do they wag them? How did they flatten them? Join in adventurous stories and songs about our favorite (and not so favorite) furry friends and then take home a unique craft project that you can do at home to continue telling Tales with Tails! 

Join us on June 29 at 7pm for a talk with author Tim Mulherin. Mulherin's new book Sand, Stars, Wind & Water: Fields Notes from Up North shares his love of the area and its people, and serves as an encouragement to visitors to respect this national treasure–Grand Traverse County, Leelanau County and other up north points. His book is a vivid, entertaining chronicle of the author's outdoor adventures exploring northwest lower Michigan.

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“Some can visit a place a thousand times and never get to know it, while others go deeper, beyond the tourist lookouts and marked trails, until they’ve learned the place by heart. Tim Mulherin is one of the latter. He ‘gets’ northwest lower Michigan, and his book is a rich and entertaining celebration of it.” – Jerry Dennis, author of The Living Great Lakes

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