Week Calendar

Join us for Lap Time! Lap Time is recommended for babies ages 0 to 18 months and will feature stories, singing, bounces, playing and more!

Join us each Saturday for Family Story Time! This story time is recommended for children ages 6 months to 7-years-old and their caregivers. Each week will feature stories, singing, playing, and more!

Have you ever gazed over the river and wondered about the historic Portsmouth Naval Shipyard? Do you have relatives who may have worked there, or served on a submarine stationed there for repairs?

Join us for Waddler Time! This is a story time designed for our mobile young patrons ages 1-3 yrs.  We will do lots of songs, rhymes and dancing.  

Details

Beginning May 16, 2023, until November 7, 2023, the Spanish Language Discussion Group will meet in person only. 

Join us for books, songs, and rhymes at a story time recommended for two and three year olds and their caregivers.

Emerging readers! You are invited to come share a book with one of our certified reading dogs ⁠— first come, first served. This program will be held in the Youth Services area of the library and is open to readers of all ages.

Come to the library to play Mah Jongg, the ancient Chinese game of tiles on Saturdays from 10 AM —12 PM!

The Italian Language Discussion Group will meet in person for now. Join us each Friday in the MacLeod Board Room on the library's second floor. 

After the Lunar New Year, the Moon Festival is the most celebrated holiday in Asian countries.

Homeschooling families are invited to join us for a special visit from Snapology for this month's Homeschool Meet-Up. Registration is required. Please register for EACH child who is planning to attend.

Tour the Portsmouth Athenaeum
with Tom Hardiman and Peggy Hodges

Please note that each group is volunteer-facilitated. These are not classes. They will have no teachers and may have no native speakers. However, the library has many resources for language learning—ask us today!

Please note that each group is volunteer-facilitated. These are not classes. They will have no teachers and may have no native speakers. However, the library has many resources for language learning—ask us today!

Come join us for Teen Book Club! Held at the high school during Flex Block, each month we discuss a book we read together and receive a new book to talk about the following month.

Tour the Portsmouth Athenaeum
with Tom Hardiman and Peggy Hodges

Let's Draw! Join local author and illustrator Gina Perry for a drawing workshop filled with dinosaurs, trolls, unicorns, gnomes, and more. The workshop is best for ages 4-10 but all ages are welcome.

Join us every Monday for games, crafts, and other incredibly fun and interesting activities planned JUST FOR YOU!!!

Join us for LEGO Club at PPL! Each week children in grades K-5 are invited to join us in the Levenson Room to create unique LEGO challenges, work on individual projects and have fun with other LEGO loving kids!

Join us, adventurers, for monthly games of dungeons and dragons!

Join us, adventurers, for monthly games of dungeons and dragons!

Brave Shakespeareans, we venture into the cool mists of autumn as courageously as the fierce general of Athens’ Golden Age!

The Portsmouth Public Library is creating a new Strategic Plan and we have received over 2300 responses to our recent survey which will help with the planning.

The Portsmouth Public Library is creating a new Strategic Plan and we have received over 2300 responses to our recent survey which will help with the planning.

Join us for our newest language discussion group, Portuguese!  This group meets at the library on the first Thursday of the month, and online via Zoom otherwise.

Rushmore
1998. Rated R. Runtime 93 minutes. 

Join us for an evening of haunted stories of the New Hampshire Seacoast told by Roxie Zwicker of New England Curiosities! Roxie is the author of Haunted Portsmouth and the New Hampshire Book of the Dead.