Tar Beach
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
Tar Beach
Step into the dreamy world atop eight-year-old Cassie’s Harlem apartment building. The Caldecott Award-winning illustrations beautifully depict a slice of the African American experience in depression-era New York. Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
Sunday Story Hour: The Lonely Phone Booth
Free with Museum admission
Can you imagine a world before cell phones? The phone booth at West End Avenue and 100th Street does. Learn how a phone booth can save the day.
Free with Museum admission.
Sunday Story Hour: Elizabeth Leads the Way
Free with Museum admission
Learn about one woman who stood up for what she believed in and paved the way for women voters.
Sunday Story Hour: Explore Central Park
Free with Museum admission
Trees and Ponds and Playgrounds, oh my! Central Park has so much to offer a New York City family, especially in the summertime. Join us for some fun stories that honor this wonderful city haven that’s just across the street. Don’t forget to look around our library for the cast of a very familiar Central Park statue!
The Old Pirate of Central Park by Robert Priest
Central Park Serenade by Laura Godwin
Free with Museum admission
Sunday Story Hour: Look Around!
Free with Museum admission
It is near impossible to ever be bored in New York City, all you have to do is look around! The sun is out and it’s time to explore all that New York City has in store. Help us kick off the summer with some stories that will inspire you to look, and look again.
Urban Animals by Isabel Hill
Larry Gets Lost by Michael Mullin and John Skewes
Free with Museum admission
Sunday Story Hour
Free with Museum admission
From the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, through fiction and through fact, hear tales of NYC and the people who made it great. Every Sunday at the DiMenna Children's History Museum.
Free with museum admission.
Sunday Story Hour
Free with Museum admission
From the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, through fiction and through fact, hear tales of NYC and the people who made it great. Every Sunday at the DiMenna Children's History Museum.
Free with museum admission.
Sunday Story Hour
Free with Museum admission
From the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, through fiction and through fact, hear tales of NYC and the people who made it great. Every Sunday at the DiMenna Children's History Museum.
Free with museum admission.
Sunday Story Hour: Explore Grand Central Terminal
Next Stop Grand Central by Maira Kalman
What happens in Grand Central Terminal? Discover and celebrate this New York Landmark as we approach its centennial.
Next Stop Grand Central by Maira Kalman
Free with Museum admission.
Sunday Story Hour: Celebrate Earth Day
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
The Earth Book by Todd Parr
How can we take care of our planet? Join us for stories that celebrate the earth and take a recycling journey with Joseph and his little overcoat.
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
The Earth Book by Todd Parr
Free with Museum admission.
