You’re Invited to the Big Brooklyn Playdate! Wednesday, March 9, 10:30 - Noon Central Library Dweck Center Read, Play, Grow! is a program of BPL’s First Five years initiative and is supported in part by funds from the New York State Library’s Family Literacy Library Services grant program and the Altman Foundation. Illustrations © 2004 by Kathy Parkinson from When I Miss You by Cornelia Maude Spelman, reproduced by permission of Albert Whitman & Company Stop by the Big Brooklyn Playdate for fun, hands-on demonstrations of games and activities that delight children (ages birth to three years) and encourage early literacy. After the Playdate, visit the Read, Play, Grow! series at your neighborhood library and go home ready to turn the things in your home into your child’s favorite—and most educational—toys. 4237.FL (02.11.11) Visit www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/first5years/play/events.jsp to learn more.