Children’s Programs Special Thanks Ridgefield Library Presents

Saturday, October 10, 11:30 - 1:00 PM - Register Curiouser and Curiouser: Curiouser and Curiouser: Stick Figure Alice: A Drawing Workshop 150 Years of Alice in Wonderland Join us for create a mural with author and illustrator 150 Years of is made possible thanks to the Jamison Odone. For Children ages 6 - 10. Friends of the Library Alice in Wonderland

Saturday, October 31, 5:00 - 8:00 PM Halloween @ The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Enter the fantastical world of Alice, the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, and the Red Queen at The Aldrich. Get your picture taken in front of the larger-than -life Alice in Wonderland-themed photo booth, and get a sense of what it Thanks also to: would be like to be shrunk down to her Rudy Ruggles size and see your photo projected on The Morgan Library the wall of the Museum! & Museum Ridgefield School of Dance Books on the Common Thursday, November 19, 5:30 - 7:00 PM - Register The Aldrich Contemporary Reading Is a Family Affair: Alice’s Adventures in Art Museum Wonderland - retold and illustrated by Jamison Odone Keeler Tavern Museum Reading is a Family Affair is a parent and child book discussion for children in grades 3 – 5. A pizza dinner will be served before the discussion. Registration is in person in For more information or to register for Children’s Services beginning October 21. A $5 per person programs visit ridgefieldlibrary.org or deposit is collected at the time of registration that will be call 203-438-2282 refunded when the family attends the program.

Tuesday, November 3, 3:00 - 4:30 PM - $10 October - November 2015 Unbirthday Party - A Mad Hatter's Tea Party The Garden House @ Keeler Tavern Museum This fall the Library will celebrate the 150th for boys and girls ages 6 - 10 anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll's - Celebrate your classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. “unbirthday” at this party for children ages six - ten. There will be characters to “And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, Lewis Carroll entertain the guests, "without pictures or conversation?” thanks to Ridgefield School of Dance, and light “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six refreshments will be served. Fun and games will then impossible things before breakfast.” commence! Tickets are $10 per person. Registration and Ridgefield Library, 472 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877 payment is at Children's Services at the Library. 203-438-2282, www.ridgefieldlibrary.org ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Wednesday, October 7, 8:30 AM - Tickets $40 Tuesday, November 10, 7:00 PM - Register Sunday, November 22, 2:00 PM - Register Field Trip to the Morgan Library and Museum Book Discussion: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Green Witches, White Rabbits and Wild Things on Madison Avenue in New York City & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll with Gregory Maguire

Join us for a bus trip to the Join us for a discussion of the New York Times-bestselling Morgan Library and Museum to complete Alice (Alice's Adventures novelist Gregory Maguire, author view their special exhibit Alice: in Wonderland and Through the of Wicked and After Alice and 150 Years of Wonderland. Looking-Glass) by Lewis Carroll. three dozen other books for adults This exhibition will bring to The discussion will be led by and children, will speak on the light the curious history of Assistant Library Director Mary place of childhood reading and Wonderland, presenting an Rindfleisch. While originally writing in his growth as a writer, engaging account of the genesis, created as a simple story for a with special appreciation for his publication, and enduring young acquaintance of the author, friend and mentor, Ridgefield’s appeal of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland own Maurice Sendak. Maguire’s tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. For the first can be read on a multitude of levels, Wicked inspired the Broadway blockbuster musical time in three decades, the original manuscript will providing enjoyment and discovery for adults as well as of the same name, now celebrating its twelfth year travel from the British Library in London to New children. In addition to being a ripping good adventure on Broadway and tenth year in London's West End. York, where it will be joined by original drawings story, the text is full of literary references, coded Maguire has lectured on art, literature, and culture and letters, rare editions, vintage photographs and allusions to social and political trends and personalities of both at home and abroad. He lives with his family fascinating objects—many never before exhibited. the Victorian era, logic and mathematics problems and near Boston, Massachusetts. His We will leave Ridgefield at 8:30 AM and return by delightful puns and riddles. latest book After Alice is based on around 5:30 PM. A mid-day break of several hours Carroll’s classic tale. will allow time for sightseeing, shopping and lunch at Martin Gardner’s annotated edition (available in the Museum's cafe or elsewhere in the neighborhood numerous print and digital editions) is recommended but Copies of Wicked, After Alice, Egg (lunch is not included in the ticket price). To purchase not required. Inquire at the Circulation Desk for copies. & Spoon and Making Mischief: A tickets visit ridgefieldlibrary.org. Maurice Sendak Appreciation will be available for sale and signing Saturday, November 14, 1:00 PM - Register thanks to Books on the Common. Book to Movie Screening and Discussion of Alice in Tuesday, November 3, Wonderland with Mark Edwards. 7:00 PM - Register Join us for a film screening of Tim Burton's Alice in Lecture: The Wonder of Sunday, October 11 through November 25 Wonderland: Lewis Carroll's Exhibit: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Alice in the 19th Century and Jamison Odone in the Ruggles Fine Arts in Our Own Time Reading Room with Dr. Mark Schenker Come and view an exhibit of Mark Schenker, Dean of original drawings from Alice’s Academic Affairs at Yale College, Adventures in Wonderland - retold will discuss Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland starring Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, and illustrated by Jamison Odone. remarkable book as a product of Johnny Depp and Helen Bonham Carter. The film will be Odone is an author and illustrator of the Victorian Age and its "nursery introduced and a discussion will follow led by teacher children’s books and graphic novels. culture”; as a gentle subversion of and author Mark Edwards. Mark Edwards teaches media He is currently an assistant that same culture; and as a work studies at Sacred Heart University and an Art of Science professor of Illustration and that transcends its own time in Fiction and Fantasy writing course for the M.F.A. Drawing at Frostburg State continuing to engage children and program at Lesley University. His book Pirates on University in Maryland. adults alike. Dinosaur Island was published in 2012.