Children and their families can build learning skills through play at the Hug-A-Book Superheroes at PLAY event, from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, Thursday, Oct. 4 at the Rock Island Downtown Library, 401 19th Street.

12 construction play zones will give children and their families opportunities to play, create, and learn together. Activities include a crawler play area for super babies and toddlers, wall building and breaking for large motor skills, a superhero photo booth, create-a-hero stations where kids can build parts of their super suits, an everyday heroes craft where kids create a card for their everyday hero, superhero letter match and puzzle games, superhero yoga, and more. Activities are designed for the learning needs of children birth to five, with most activities aimed at the learning needs of kids two to five. Each child receives a new book and a take-home activity to continue the learning at home.

The Superheroes at PLAY event is presented as a collaboration between the Rock Island Public Library and the All Our Kids (AOK) Early Childhood Network. Presenting organizations include the Library, AOK Network, the Child Abuse Council, Community Health Care, the Rock Island County Regional Office of Education, and WQPT-TV PBS Quad Cities. 

The event is free and no registration is required.

The Rock Island County All Our Kids Early Childhood Network is a program of the Child Abuse Council. Funding for the AOK Network is provided by the Illinois Department of Human Services.

Hug-A-Book is the Rock Island Library's early learning series for children ages two to five, presented four times each year. Funding for Hug-A-Book and related events, including Rocket into Reading, come from the Merrill Harris fund of the Rock Island Public Library Foundation.

For more information about Rock Island Library hours, services and programs, visit the library website, call 309-732-READ, or follow the library on Facebook or Twitter.