Story and Pretzel Time Every Wednesday. Come to the Little Treehouse every Wednesday at 10m for free "Taste of Philly" soft pretzels, and stories. Free with admission. $8.50 for 1 child. Siblings are 1/2 price

Join us as we use storytelling to introduce children to works of art. Hiro Sakaguchi and his painting. Read: Pezzettino by Leo Lionni Make: Magical Landscape $2 materials fee.

Join us as we use storytelling to introduce children to works of art. Kate Javens and her painting. Read: Matthew's Dream by Leo Lionni Make: Animal in Art project. $2 materials fee.

Story time for Toddlers, on Thursdays.

Join Big Blue Marble Bookstore in our cafe for a kid party celebrating the beginning of spring. We'll read some spring stories, do some crafts, and have pastries. Free, and open to everyone. For kids ages 3 to 10 years old.

Enjoy free "Taste of Philly" soft pretzels, and storytime every Wednesday, free with admission, sponsored by the wonderful staff at Citibank, Chestnut Hill.

A book club that reads international and multicultural women writers, both fiction and non-fiction. We meet the last Tuesday of the month. February's book: Small Island by Andrea Levy.

"Ghostbread" makes real for us the shifting homes and unending hunger that shape the life of a girl growing up in poverty during the 1970s. One of seven children brought up by a single mother, Sonja Livingston and her siblings follow their nonconformist mother from on ramshackle house to another on the perpetual search for something better..

"The Blue Orchard" is a revelation, an insightful look at a girl born into poverty and ignorance with a mind of her own and the courage to act on it. You'll be rooting hard for Verna Krone as she overcomes seduction and betrayal to become a self-determined woman who, with her own life as example, determines to help others.