KPL Videos: children — Kalamazoo Public Library

Musical Storybooks: Hum & Swish with Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra

Musical Storybooks is created for 3 to 6 years and features a story, craft, and music by the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra’s string quartet. This episode features the children’s book Hum…

Recorded 05/11/2021

Categories: Children; Entertainment; Family; Music & Concerts

Tags: children; music; stories

Musical Storybooks: Giraffes Can't Dance with Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra

Musical Storybooks is created for 3 to 6 years and features a story, craft, and music by the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra’s string quartet. This episode performance of the children’s book…

Recorded 05/11/2021

Categories: Children; Entertainment; Family; Music & Concerts

Tags: children; music; stories

Book Thoughts

Listen to a conversation with Mr. Bill and Miss Natalie talking about exciting new books for all ages in KPL’s Children’s and Teen collections. This event is prerecorded and will…

Recorded 01/05/2021

Categories: Children; Family; Information; Teen

Tags: author; children; teens

Paint Some Happy Trees!

Let’s get creative and paint some trees, in true Bob Ross fashion. Each month will feature a different theme but will always include trees in some way. No previous painting…

Recorded 12/23/2020

Categories: Children; Family; Instructional; Teen

Tags: children; How to; teens

Book Thoughts with Mr. Bill and Miss Natalie

Listen to a conversation with Mr. Bill and Miss Natalie talking about exciting new books for all ages in KPL’s Children’s and Teen collections.

Recorded 12/01/2020

Categories: Children; Family; Information; Teen

Tags: author; children

Book Thoughts with Mr. Bill & Miss Natalie

Listen to a conversation with Mr. Bill and Miss Natalie talking about exciting new books for all ages in KPL’s Children’s and Teen collections.

Recorded 11/02/2020

Categories: Authors @ KPL; Entertainment; Family; Information; Teen

Tags: author; children; teens

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark-Halloween Edition

A special edition of our Read Along! program featuring scary stories befitting the Halloween season. A wide variety of stories, some scarier than others, to be read by librarians including Scary…

Recorded 10/31/2020

Categories: Entertainment; Family

Tags: children

Meet the Author: Alicia D. Williams

Join Kalamazoo Public Library and Kalamazoo Public Schools for an exciting interview with award-winning author Alicia D. Williams! Williams is the author of Genesis Begins Again, which received a Newbery…

Recorded 10/28/2020

Categories: Authors @ KPL; Children; Entertainment; Family; Teen

Tags: author; children; education

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark: October 24, 2020

A special edition of our Read Along! program featuring scary stories befitting the Halloween season. A wide variety of stories, some scarier than others, to be read by librarians including Scary…

Recorded 10/24/2020

Categories: Children; Entertainment; Family

Tags: children

This is Rocket Science!

Tune in for a Zoom session with Erin from the Air Zoo. Young astrophysicists learn how rockets work by gaining knowledge of physical forces and Newton’s Laws of Motion. They…

Recorded 10/12/2020

Categories: Children; Entertainment; Family; Information; Instructional; Teen

Tags: art; children; Instructional; science

"Benjamin Losford and His Handy Dandy Clippers"

Author and self-publisher Sonya Hollins co-wrote with her husband Sean (and illustrated by Kenjji), a children’s book about an African American barber, “Benjamin Losford and His Handy Dandy Clippers.” As…

Recorded 02/09/2016

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: author; black history; children; culture; education

EepyBird’s Coke & Mentos Spectacular

Authors and mad scientists Fritz Grobe & Stephen Voltz (EepyBird), a.k.a. the “Coke and Mentos guys,” brought their DIY science project to the Washington Square Branch Library (Kalamazoo, MI) on…

Recorded 07/24/2015

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: author; children; science

Chef Camp: Cooking is an Art with Chef K

Kalamazoo restaurant owner, chef, and author of “Cooking ‘N Heelz, Keneisha Darden (a.k.a. Chef K), helped students ages 10 and up identify, prepare, cook, challenge and consume a variety of tasty…

Recorded 07/16/2015

Categories: Instructional

Tags: author; children; culture; education; food; kalamazoo; teens

Jim Gill Family Concert at Oshtemo

The ultimate family play performer, Jim Gill, returned to Kalamazoo for another fun, fantastic outdoor evening performance at Oshtemo Township Park on Thursday, July 9, 2015

Recorded 07/09/2015

Categories: Music & Concerts

Tags: children; music

Eric Litwin @ KPL

Here’s a clip of “Mr. Eric” Litwin at Kalamazoo Public Library on June 11, 2015. The #1 New York Times Best Selling author of the first four “Pete the Cat”…

Recorded 06/11/2015

Categories: Music & Concerts

Tags: children; music

Earth Day Celebration 2015 @ KPL

The Earthwork Music Collective, a Michigan-based grassroots organization that seeks to foster both community and self-awareness through original music, presented this family-friendly showcase of Michigan musicians in (albeit belated) celebration…

Recorded 04/25/2015

Categories: Music & Concerts

Tags: children; culture; michigan; music

Gemini @ KPL

A free mini-concert sponsored by Fontana Chamber Arts, specially designed to give preschool children and their caregivers a performance of beautiful music in an open and flexible environment. This performance…

Recorded 04/18/2015

Categories: Music & Concerts

Tags: children; kalamazoo; music

Meet the Illustrator

Illustrator Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen takes a group of young artists through a step by step process using circles, squares and triangles showing how easy it is to draw. Gijsbert has…

Recorded 03/19/2015

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: children; illustrator; reading together

Milkshake! 2012 Summer Concert

Kalamazoo Public Library brought its 2012 Summer Reading program to a lively close with a fun, family-friendly set from the Baltimore-based band Milkshake!, August 25, 2012

Recorded 08/25/2012

Categories: Music & Concerts

Tags: children; music

Youth Literature Seminar 2011

Eli Neiburger, associate director for IT & Production at Ann Arbor District Library and author of Gamers…in the Library? and youth literary agent Barry Goldblatt spoke at the 34th annual…

Recorded 11/04/2011

Categories: Information; Timely Topics

Tags: author; children; culture; education; michigan; writing

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Musical Storybooks: Hum & Swish with Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra

Musical Storybooks: Giraffes Can't Dance with Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra

Book Thoughts

Paint Some Happy Trees!

Book Thoughts with Mr. Bill and Miss Natalie

Book Thoughts with Mr. Bill & Miss Natalie

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark-Halloween Edition

Meet the Author: Alicia D. Williams

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark: October 24, 2020

This is Rocket Science!

"Benjamin Losford and His Handy Dandy Clippers"

EepyBird’s Coke & Mentos Spectacular

Chef Camp: Cooking is an Art with Chef K

Jim Gill Family Concert at Oshtemo

Eric Litwin @ KPL

Earth Day Celebration 2015 @ KPL

Gemini @ KPL

Meet the Illustrator

Milkshake! 2012 Summer Concert

Youth Literature Seminar 2011