Tue, Oct 14
|Manchester Community Library
Special Outdoor Story Time (at Manchester Community Library)
Head to the Manchester Community Library for story time and a free book to take home!
Time & Location
Oct 14, 2025, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Manchester Community Library, 138 Cemetery Ave, Manchester Center, VT 05255, USA
About the event
NEA Big Read Outdoor Story Time
Join us outside to read Can You Hear the Plants Speak? by Nicholas Hummingbird and Julia Wasson. Then, receive your own copy of the book to take home! This special outdoor story time is a part of the Library’s and Merck Forest & Farmland Center’s programming for the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read. Read more about the program and view the growing list of NEA Big Read events here.
About the book:
What do we learn from plants when we listen to them speaking? Indigenous plantsman Nicholas Hummingbird calls on the legacy of his great-grandparents to remember how one drop of rain, one seed, one plant can renew a cycle of hope and connection—for him and for each of us.
Perfect for readers of Sy Montgomery, debut authors Nicholas Hummingbird and Julia Wasson joyfully proclaim even the youngest person can be an earth…