Bridgton Public Library

Happy New Year!

We are grateful for the holidays, and looking forward to some great things for 2021.

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We are excited to be hosting a Winter Read 2021 through the month of January for ALL AGES. You can register online at bridgtonlibrary.beanstack.org, keep track using a printed log, or give us a call (207-647-2472) and sign up for our Adult Simple Registration Option.

Printed logs are also available at Bridgton Books. We’ve put together Recommended Reading Lists on our website and can print one out for you on request. Or just give us a call and we’re happy to help.

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We have some wonderful To-Go bags this month to grab and go. If you are putting items on hold or using no-contact pickup, just let us know which To-Go bags you want and we’ll hand them out to you! For adults, we have Comfort To-Go: Cocoa and Puzzles and Craft To-Go: Etched Glass and for kids, we have Comfort To-Go: Cocoa and Puzzles and Culture To-Go: Rufus Porter Portrait Painting. Rufus Porter Museum has put together a Miniature Portrait project just for us here at the Library. Rufus Porter was a self-taught artist who built miniature water-wheels for fun, played music, wrote poetry, and painted. This bag has everything you need to create your own portrait, including a small watercolor kit.

All bags are free, available first come first served while they last.

Happy Winter 2021

“Books Like Us” for January

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Bridgton Public Library is getting ready for Beanstack’s Fourth Annual Winter Reading Challenge, Books Like Us, sponsored by Simon and Schuster, through the month of January. We encourage you to read a book by an author you’ve not read before or try a new type of book. Learn something new or read something that has been recommended, settle in for January with some great books!

We will have challenges and reading lists for adults and kids. You can keep track online at bridgtonlibrary.beanstack.org, use a print reading log, or let us know you want to participate and we’ll keep track for you. Thousands of libraries and schools across the nation are encouraging reading in their communities with Books Like Us and other nation-wide reading activities.

Prizes from the program sponsors will include book collections and virtual author visits. Ten (10) winning schools or libraries will each get a collection of fifty (50) books from the Books Like Us collection. We’ll be holding a grand prize raffle drawing for Adults on February 2nd for a grand prize winner and offering several smaller prizes as well. You can pre-register by going to Bridgton Public Library Beanstack or just ask us to get you set up.

Happy reading, Bridgton!