The Adventure begins at your Whitefish Bay Public Library! Use the smartest card – your library card – to receive admission or a special discount at participating Wisconsin and Illinois area cultural destinations!
 
Visit Museum Adventure Passes and find Arlington Heights Memorial Library to see which passes are currently available. Most passes are available electronically.
 
Enter your name, library card number and e-mail address. Please allow 24 hours for the pass to be printed or e-mailed.
Limited to one pass per household, per loan period.
The loan period is seven days and will expire after the date printed on the pass. 

 

Library Social
Thursday, March 6, 2:30-3:30PM

Join us for coffee, conversation, and donuts every first Thursday from 2:30-3:30pm in the upstairs program room. As the weather changes and the world turns, we'll always have playing cards, board games, adult coloring books, and jazz playing softly in the background at the Library Social. Mark your calendar's for March 6th! 

 

Hosted by Reference Assistant Eva Hong

All Ages Storytime 
Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays at 10:00-10:30AM
Begins March 17

Join us for stories, songs, and more at an all ages storytime!  What's Storytime?  Storytime is a time to share books, stories, songs, and fun while building early literacy skills.

Toddler Time Storytime 
Tuesdays at 10:00-10:30AM

Begins March 18
12mo-24mo with an adult caregiver.  (Siblings are welcome.)  Registration open now.

Toddler Time is back! Join Miss Valerie for stories, songs, lap bounces and more, followed by a playtime for our little ones.

Winter Reading Celebration with Kiwanis North Shore MKE.
Saturday, March 8, 10-11AM

Celebrate Winter Reading with donuts, crafts, and games like our giant four-in-a-row and ring toss.  All are welcome; Winter Reading Program finishers get a certificate of completion.

 

Registration is appreciated so we know how many donuts to buy!  

The Winter Reading Program and the celebration are both sponsored by Kiwanis North Shore MKE.  Thank you!

Parachute Playtime
Monday, March 10, 10-10:30AM
Ages 2yo-5yo with an adult caregiver.  (Younger siblings are welcome.) 

Join us for an interactive and play-filled program featuring songs, rhymes and activities with the library's parachute. Registration open now. 

Infant Gross Motor with Little Light Pediatric Therapies
Friday, March 21, 10-10:45AM
Ages 0-15 Months

This 45-minute class will be play-based and fun, and it is designed to empower you to enhance your child's language development through everyday routines, play and music. You'll leave with some concrete tips and ideas to incorporate at home and on-the-go.This 45-minute class is designed for babies from 0-15 months and their caregivers as a way to improve strength, motor control, and gross motor development. In the class, we will help supplement your gross ('large') motor play! Registration is required. 

Move It, Move It with Little Light Pediatric Therapies
Friday, March 21, 11-11:30AM
Ages 18 months - 5 years

Get ready to move your body in fun and interesting ways in this 30-minute playful series for younger children roughly 18 months -5 years old! Activities will include stretching, breath work, strengthening, balance work, and coordination tasks. Positive self talk will be encouraged! Registration is required.  

All Ages Block Party
Saturday, March 29, 10-11AM

Join us for a fun time building at our all ages, drop-in Block Party!  We'll have a variety of building materials perfect for a variety of ages, and you're invited to come and build.  Stop by for 15 minutes of building or stay for the entire session! All ages with an adult caregiver.  No registration required.

Election Day is April 1, 2025. Will you be ready? See how easy it is to register to vote and also:

• Learn about the importance of local government 
• Review the role of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin
• Fulfills WFBHS School Assignment

All Milwaukee County public libraries are participating in the Great Library Treasure Hunt. This fun, scavenger hunt-style event encourages patrons and community members to visit multiple libraries, write down their favorite thing about each library, and get their map stamped for a chance to win prizes. (Prizes include VISA gift cards!) Escape the ordinary as you travel to the county’s amazing library buildings and learn more about what resources lie inside. Whitefish Bay Public Library team members are excited highlight our services, show off our building, and sign new patrons up with a library card.

This system-wide program is being coordinated by Milwaukee County Federated Library System (MCFLS) staff. The Great Library Treasure Hunt ends on Sunday. May 3, 2025.

Friends of the Whitefish Bay Public Library are pleased to announce two $1,000 educational scholarships for students who have been positively influenced by libraries. High school seniors who are residents of or attend school in Whitefish Bay and will be attending college during the 2025/2026 school year are eligible.

To learn more, visit our website.

Mystery Book Club
Wednesday, March 12, 6:30PM

Our Mystery Book Club meets once a month and is led by librarian Sharon Nagel. This month we're reading The Unkindness of Ravens by M. E. Hilliard.

Mystery Book Club offers hybrid meetings. You can attend in-person at the Library in the 2nd floor Program Room or online via Zoom. 

 

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Tea Time Book Club
Wednesday, March 19, 2PM

Our Tea Time Book Club meets once a month is led by Library Director Nyama Reed. This month we're reading James by Percival Everett. Skip the wait list by stopping at the Adult Services desk to grab a copy of the book. Tea Time Book Club offers in-person meetings at the Library in the 2nd floor Program Room.

 

About the book: "From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view."--

THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS
NEW BOOK CLUB STARTING IN FEBRUARY 2025

Thanks for the Memoirs Book Club will focus on memoirs from authors representing a variety of backgrounds and lived experiences. We will meet on the 2nd Thursday at 10am, every other month, starting in February.

This month we're reading Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward. 

Discussions will be facilitated by Mary Sussman, who previously led Shakespeare and Company (2003-2005), dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare; and League Café, dedicated to books about racial equity (2018-2023).

About the book: In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. But why? As she began to write about living through all the dying, Jesmyn realized the truth -- and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle.