Events: Wausau
Play & Learn
Children Children of all ages are invited to use their imagination and creativity! These fun, 60-90 minute programs feature a different story each week, followed by songs and supplemental activities. Offered in partnership with the Family Resource Center.
Tales for Tots
Children Enjoy books, songs and fingerplays with your toddler at this fun and lively story time!
Preschool Story Time
Children This 30-minute program will help prepare your preschooler for kindergarten with stories, songs, rhymes and other early literacy activities.
Stories & Strings: A Violin Story Time
Children Hear songs played on the violin and try out a violin yourself during this story time combining tales and tunes!
Book Babies
Children Join us for 20 minutes of "lap sit" story time for children birth to 23 months! Listen and interact with your baby through books, songs, rhymes and other activities.
TAG - Teen Advisory Group
Teens Drop-in Teens are welcome to meet others, volunteer and help plan library programs through our Teen Advisory Group (TAG). Meetings monthly
"The Public"
Adults & Teens Join us in the library for a free screening of a new film that takes place in a library! As always, BYOP (bring your own popcorn!)
Building Challenges
Children Drop-in Participate in monthly building challenges during this drop-in event!
Intro to Microsoft Excel
Adults Registration Learn how to use Microsoft Excel during this free class for beginners!
A Groovy New Story & Crafts With Pete the Cat!
Children It's all about that hep cat Pete as we celebrate a new book coming out in September with stories and crafts!
A Pirate's Tale & Treasure Hunt
Children Attend this pirate-themed story time event - or walk the plank!
LENA Start
Adults Registration Improve your verbal interactions with your child through a talk pedometer and parent education classes! Registration required.
Soft Circuits: Sewing With Electricity
Adults Registration Crafting and needle arts lovers: Want to up your sewing game? Add some spark with electricity!
"Fluid States" With Heidi Czerwiec
Adults & Teens Hear poet and essayist Heidi Czerwiec during the Central Wisconsin Book Festival, and bring your own work to share during an open mic session prior to Heidi's reading!
The 2019 Central Wisconsin Book Festival
All-Ages The Central Wisconsin Book Festival returns for its third year to bring a wide variety of authors and artists to the Wausau area for readings, workshops and much more!
Activist Poetry Workshop With Wisconsin Poet Laureate Margaret Rozga
Adults Calling all poets! Join us during the Central Wisconsin Book Festival for a workshop on activist poetry with Wisconsin's Poet Laureate!
Charles Hughes: Hidden Histories of Race in Pop Culture
Adults & Teens We're excited to welcome back to the Wausau area historian and author Charles Hughes to discuss the intersection of pop culture with issues of race!
Hanif Abdurraqib: Readings From "A Fortune for Your Disaster"
Adults & Teens The Central Wisconsin Book Festival is thrilled that poet, essayist and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib will join us for one of our festival's headline events to read from his newest poetry collection.
Wisconsin State Parks With Scott Spoolman
All-Ages Learn more about the extraordinary geology and history of Wisconsin's state parks during the Central Wisconsin Book Festival!
Family Story Time
Children Bring your entire family to story time! Children of all ages and parents/guardians are welcome to this 30-minute program. Enjoy learning with all of your children through stories, songs and other literature-based activities.
Family Memoir Workshop With Jen Rubin
Adults If you've ever thought about writing a family memoir, join us for a workshop during the Central Wisconsin Book Festival to learn some tips and techniques!
We Are Staying: A Family Memoir Reading With Jen Rubin
Adults & Teens Hear a fascinating, true tale with author Jen Rubin of a family, a business and a neighborhood during the Central Wisconsin Book Festival.
CWBF Authors Panel: How (and Why) I Write
Adults & Teens Hear from three acclaimed authors about their writing methods and techniques, and why they do what they do, during this Central Wisconsin Book Festival panel discussion!
Madison: 1969 With Stuart Levitan
Adults & Teens Whether you lived through the 1960s, or you're a history buff yearning to learn, join us for a talk about the scene in Wisconsin's capital city in the Sixties!
"Paris by the Book" & Other Writings With Liam Callanan
Adults The Central Wisconsin Book Festival welcomes award-winning Wisconsin author Liam Callanan to join us for a reading of his work!
Action Into Words: A Reading by Poet Margaret Rozga
Adults & Teens Hear the work of Wisconsin's poetry ambassador during the Central Wisconsin Book Festival!
A Conversation With Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson
Adults & Teens The Central Wisconsin Book Festival welcomes writer and artist Craig Thompson back to his native Wisconsin to talk about his work - including a new series partly set in his native Marathon County!
Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail With Melanie McManus
Adults What's it like to hike more than 1,000 miles across Wisconsin? Find out from someone with first-hand knowledge during the Central Wisconsin Book Festival!
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Reading & Reception
Adults & Teens Join us during the Central Wisconsin Book Festival to hear poets from around the state read their work, including featured guest Bruce Dethlefsen!
Dead Big Dawg: A Reading With Victoria Houston
Adults One of Wisconsin's most popular authors, Victoria Houston, is coming back to join us during the Central Wisconsin Book Festival to read from and talk about her newest book in the Loon Lake mystery series!
Family Pajama Story Time
Children Join us for a special story time filled with relaxing stories, music and movement - pajamas, blankets and stuffed animals encouraged!
MCPL & Reel to Real Film Night: "Not Enough Apologies: Trauma Stories"
Adults Join us for a free screening of a moving documentary on childhood trauma and its impacts on adulthood. This film is offered in partnership with Wisconsin Public Television and the Wisconsin Library Association.
Pokemon Club
Children Join fellow Pokemon fans for a monthly gathering of all things Pokemon, including new activities each month and the opportunity to play the Pokemon trading card game!
Harvest Fest Story Time & Crafts!
Children Hear fall-themed stories and make a variety of crafts during this event, part of Wausau Events' Harvest Fest!
Books on the Bus
Children Hear stories about city buses, make crafts and take a ride on a Wausau Metro Ride bus!
STEAM Projects for Tweens!
Children Drop-in Create a flextangle and coloring mixing wheel during this Wisconsin Science Festival event!
STEAM Projects for Kids!
Children Drop-in Create a rainbow paper and build paper structures during this Wisconsin Science Festival event!
Children's Matinee: "Toy Story 4"
Children Visit the library for free screenings of the 2019 film "Toy Story 4!"
Cooking With Inga Witscher
Adults Join us for another demonstration of creating delicious food with public television's Inga Witscher!
Friends of MCPL Book Sale
All-Ages Drop-in Browse through thousands of gently used books, CDs, DVDs, puzzles and much more! You're sure to find something at a great price and all proceeds benefit the library!
Get Your Glow on Story Time
Children Help us light up the library with this glow-in-the-dark story time!
Search & Discover MCPL Databases!
Adults Registration Join us to learn more about all of the incredible databases the Marathon County Public Library has to offer - all available for free with a library card!
"Frozen" Sing-Along
Children Watch (and sing along to) "Frozen" during fun, family sing-along event!
Book Bowl ... the Prequel!
Children Wausau School District students can prepare for the 2020 Book Bowl with fun games centered around this year's selections!
- Locations
- Wausau
- Athens
- Edgar
- Hatley
- Marathon City
- Mosinee
- Rothschild
- Spencer
- Stratford
- Marathon County Public Library
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300 North First Street Wausau WI 54403 USA
Phone: 715-261-7200 (business hours)
Account Status: 715-261-7209 (24/7)
Fax: 715-261-7204
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