Books

Item Description

Your children will become little bookworms with this incredible package. Enjoy a one-year Household Membership to the Providence Athenaeum (Value: $195), two Providence Athenaeum children's library tee-shirts and a pair of children's books, inspiring readers from an early age! 

About the Providence Athenaeum Children's Library

The Sayles Gorham Children's Library is a sanctuary designed to help children do what comes naturally to them around books: alternatively get deeply lost and significantly found. Tucked away in the back corner of the Athenaeum, the Children's Library exists in its own world. Behind glass doors and amongst mountains of books, DVDs, stuffed animals and toys, the Children's Library is a place that kids can confidently call their own.

Membership Benefits include:

• Children's Library Services: The weekly children's story-times and sing-a-longs, as well as special programming like author appearances and movie showings, are all open to members.

• Borrowing Privileges with the Athenaeum: Becoming a member fully opens the library's collections to you, allowing any circulating items to be checked out.
• Access to Items Beyond Collection: Don't see what you're looking for among our more than 150,000 items? Not a problem! We can get a hold of almost any book ever published.
• Use of the RISD Library: Household and Individual Members are able to check items out from the Rhode Island School of Design's visually-stunning Fleet Library.
• Subscription to the Universal Penman Newsletter: Members also receive mailed copies of our colorful and detail-packed monthly newsletter. Filled with news and upcoming event information, the Universal Penman is your gateway to all things Athenaeum.

In Addition to the Providence Athenaeum, jumpstart your children's literary collection with these hit books from Books on the Square!

The children in your life will love these two books by award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems. The New York Times Best-Seller Can I Play Too? and Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Winning Are You Ready to Play Outside? will soon be the hit of their bookshelf!

About the Author

Mo Willems, a number one best-selling author and illustrator has been awarded a Caldecott Honor on three occasions (for Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity). Other favorites include Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct and Leonardo, the Terrible Monster. Mo began his career on Sesame Street, where he garnered six Emmy Awards.

Item Special Note

The Providence Athenaeum membership can only be redeemed by someone not currently a member of the Athenaeum. Current Athenaeum members can purchase the membership as a gift for someone not currently a member, but a current member cannot redeem the membership for his or her own use.