Families
Fall Into Bookmaking at the West Valley Regional Branch Library!
Please join us at the West Valley Regional Branch Library and kick off your holiday season by learning how to create your own handmade book with our Artist in Residence Debra Disman!
Learn folding, gluing and sewing techniques, and use your book to hold holiday recipes, photos, good wishes and more!
All materials provided.
Make Your Own Halloween Book: Tunnel Bookmaking at the West Valley Regional Branch Library!
Join us to create your own Halloween “Tunnel Book” where you can tell your Halloween stories!
Artist in Residence Debra Disman will guide you step-by-step on how to make a tunnel book.
All supplies will be provided.
For ADA accommodations, call (213) 228-7430 at least 72 hours prior to the event.
Para ajustes razonables según la ley de ADA, llama al (213) 228-7430 al menos 72 horas antes del evento.
Learn to Create the Fun and Fantastic Flower Fold Book with LACMA!
Join us online through LACMA – The Los Angeles Country Museum of Art to learn to create the Fun and Fantastic Flower Fold Book for families with children ages 6+
Learn the fun and fantastic flower fold structure and make a book of repeated forms that changes size and unfolds into a sculpture! Add artwork, text, poems and wishes and create your personal vision for 2022!
We will discuss Chris Burden’s METROPOLIS in reference to books that move, fold and unfold!!!
Sign up HERE!
Learn to Create the Fun and Fantastic Flower Fold Book with LACMA!
Join us online through LACMA – The Los Angeles Country Museum of Art to learn to create the Fun and Fantastic Flower Fold Book for families with children ages 6+
Learn the fun and fantastic flower fold structure and make a book of repeated forms that changes size and unfolds into a sculpture! Add artwork, text, poems and wishes and create your personal vision for 2022!
We will discuss Chris Burden’s METROPOLIS in reference to books that move, fold and unfold!!!
Sign up HERE!
Seeing 2020: Making a Calendar at the Granada Hills Library Part II
Using an Asian-style side stab binding stitch, participants sewed their calendar pages between a front cover made of watercolor paper to allow it to bend, and thus open, and a back cover made of board, to keep the calendar pages from bending.
Once they had completed the labor of putting the pieces together, the proud makers proceeded to embellish their creations with zeal!


Teen Council members served as assistants, and participants! We were so lucky to have them.



In a digitized world, working with our hands becomes even more precious.

Mom looks on….

Mom participates!


Grandma gets into the act!


A family of sisters.

A family of makers.




Caring and devoted Children’s Librarian Stephanie encourages a happy family to proudly share their calendars with the camera.
2020 is off to a good start.
Happy New Decade!