{"id":364160,"date":"2026-10-04T14:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364160\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:28:07","slug":"banned-books-and-winnie-the-pooh-october-in-nyc-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364160\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned books and Winnie the Pooh: October in NYC libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Banned Books Week starts Oct. 4, and the libraries are marking it in different ways. Queens Public Library is collaborating with Penguin Random House for a banned book giveaway<\/a> at the Hunters Point branch. While supplies last, you can get your own copy of a book that has been banned somewhere in the country.<\/p>\n

The New York Public Library\u2019s Fort Washington Branch is hosting a flower arranging workshop<\/a>. Florist Ivy Paniagua will lead people through how to use color and composition to make a bouquet inspired by the banned book \u201cKindred<\/a>,\u201d by Octavia Butler.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn Public Library will be hosting a variety of events<\/a> as well, including their ongoing exhibit of two 40-foot tapestries<\/a> by the artist Christopher Myers that feature characters and scenes from banned books including \u201cAnimal Farm\u201d by George Orwell and \u201cThe Bluest Eye\u201d by Toni Morrison, on display at the Central branch.<\/p>\n

Beyond banned books, the Queens Public Library is partnering with Humanities New York for a three-part deep dive into democracy and disagreement<\/a> as part of its ongoing America 250 series.<\/p>\n

The Brooklyn Library has an America 250 event planned as well: The Central Branch will host a teach-in on social movements and Constitutional freedoms<\/a> called Uprising\/Downfall.<\/p>\n

And NYPL has a zine-making workshop<\/a> at the Schomburg Center, facilitated by BlackMass Publishing<\/a>, a Black independent press and archive.<\/p>\n

For the kids:<\/p>\n

NYPL is celebrating Winnie the Pooh\u2019s 100th birthday with events across three boroughs, including movies<\/a>, readings<\/a>, bingo<\/a>, crafts<\/a> and more crafts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NYPL\u2019s Morris Park branch is also remembering famed librarian Pura Belpr\u00e9<\/a>, the first Puerto Rican librarian at New York Public Library, with a re-enactment of her legendary \u201cBilingual Story Hour\u201d featuring puppets.<\/p>\n

In Brooklyn, young visitors to the Windsor Terrace branch can check out what it\u2019s like to drive with a virtual reality driving experience<\/a>. And those at the Dyker Heights BPL branch can take a peek at the world of the very small<\/a> with the BioBus, a lab on wheels with high-powered microscopes onboard.<\/p>\n

After you\u2019re done peering down at the tiny things visible through a microscope, switch your focus up to the heavens with the Queens Public Library. It’s holding events throughout the month<\/a> to allow people to see what the night sky over Queens would look like without clouds and city lights. They also are holding events on birding for kids<\/a>, and on building balloon-powered rockets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And finally, both Queens and NYPL have events to help high school seniors<\/a> with their college admissions process<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the branches:<\/p>\n

Local branch events in Brooklyn this month include a trivia night<\/a> at BPL\u2019s Center for Brooklyn History, a basic bike maintenance workshop<\/a> at the Greenpoint branch, and a series of theater workshops<\/a> for intermediate English language learners at the Flatbush branch.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for something more crafty, the Queens Public library has a class on the Chinese art of figure-making with dough<\/a>, held in both Mandarin and English. Or you can create clay versions of calaveras<\/a> at the South Ozone branch on Oct. 31.<\/p>\n

And also on Halloween if you’re feeling like something spooky, you can stop by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center for a Halloween screening of the New York City classic: \u201cGhostbusters<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week starts Oct. 4, and the libraries are marking it in different ways. Queens Public Library…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-364160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}