Start summer connecting with a book, with your family, with your friends, and your community! Enjoy music, crafts, giant games, and more!

This year’s kick-off celebration includes:

• The Mad Factory – LIVE music
• Society of Creative Anachronisms – demonstration only, photo-op requires waiver
  • The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international non-profit volunteer educational organization. The SCA is devoted to the research and re-creation of pre-seventeenth century skills, arts, combat, culture, and employing knowledge of history to enrich the lives of participants through events, demonstrations, and other educational presentations and activities.
• Read to the Dog
  • EPL would like to welcome back Dianne Page and her therapy dog.
• Face Painting
• Bubble Station
  • EPL would like to welcome back Mr. Mittler’s popular bubble science.
• Craft Stations
• Bee Bot Science Station
• Giant Board Games
• Adopt a Reading Buddy (small stuffed animal)
• Friends of the Elyria Public Library Children’s Book Sale
  • Children’s books only
  • 25 cents/book