CASL is proud to partner with the CT Department of Education for our Read Talk & Play Every Day Sharing the Joy Program. |
2025 Events:
June 7 - Hartford Public Library Summer Reading Kickoff. Meet authors Ismee Williams, Priya Gupta, and Luisiana Duarte Almendariz!
June 21 from 11am-12:30pm - Plainville Public Library Summer Reading Kickoff! Meet author Cindy Rodriguez and enjoy book giveaways!
June 21 from 11am-5pm - ConnectiKids Summer Vendor Fair at Parkville Market in Hartford! Meet authors Cindy Rodriguez, Adriana Hernandez Bergstrom, and Luisiana Duarte Almendariz! Book giveaways!
June 24 - Writing workshop at the Public Library of New London with author Adriana Hernandez Bergstrom!
July 18 at 10am - Writing workshop at the Groton Public Library with author Debbi Michiko Florence! Click here for the flyer.
July 23 at 6pm - Middle Grade book club with author Cindy Rodriguez! We will be reading and discussing her book Lola Reyes is So Not Worried! Click here for the flyer.
August 11 at 3pm - Join us for a writing workshop and presentation for tween/teens with author Rhonda Roumani at the West Haven Public Library! Click here for the flyer - available soon!
August 24 at 1pm - Parkville Market Back to School event with author Cindy Rodriguez! Join us for book giveaways and meet the author! Click here for the flyer - available soon!
Photos from our 2025 events!
Below: Photos from August 10, 2024 at the Puerto Rican Festival on the New Haven Green!
Thank you for helping to make our 2024 events amazing!
2024 Events:
September 14 from 2-3pm - Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in the Children's Room of the Ives Main Library in New Haven. Author Talia Aikens-Nuñez will be reading one of her picture books Escucha Means Listen or Small Nap, Little Dream. Book giveaways!
September 17 from 4-5pm - Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at the WILSON Branch Library in New Haven. Author Adriana Bergstrom will be reading one of her picture books Abuelita & I Make Flan. Book giveaways!
September 17 from 5:30-7pm - Celebrate literacy with authors Kyle Lukoff, Juana Martinez-Neal, Winsome Bingham and Barbara McClintock at the Center for Family Development Resource Center in Willimantic, CT. Book giveaways!
Click HERE for the flyer for the event.
September 21 from 10-11am - Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at the STETSON Branch Library in New Haven. Author Adriana Bergstrom will be reading one of her picture books Abuelita & I Make Flan. Book giveaways!
September 23 from 4-5pm - Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at the FAIR HAVEN Branch Library in New Haven. Author Adriana Bergstrom will be reading one of her picture books Abuelita & I Make Flan. Book giveaways!
September 25 from 4-5pm - Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at the MITCHELL Branch Library in New Haven. Author Ismee Williams will be reading one of her picture books Abuelo, the Sea, and Me. Book giveaways!
Click HERE for the flyer of all the New Haven Library events.
August 24 from 1-4pm - Block party near Possible Futures Bookstore in New Haven
August 10 from 1-4pm - Puerto Rican Festival on the New Haven Green in collaboration with authors Talia Aikens-Nuñez and Cindy Rodriguez and Possible Futures bookstore.