DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM A craft-making period followed one of the Storytime sessions at Kalihi-Palama Public Library. The children show boxes they made. In the front, 4-year-old Brooke Carruthers proudly shows her "bunny rabbit" box.

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summer storytimes

In celebration of the program, a handful of Oahu libraries will host free demonstrations by Doug Beter and his Rainbow Pigeons, ending with the release and flight of his multi-hued racing pigeons into the sky.

Beter will be at the Waialua Bandstand at 10 a.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. June 25 at the Mililani Public Library, and 3 p.m. June 29 at the Pearl City Library.

For more information, call Library Development Services at 831-6878, or the host libraries. Here is the schedule:

Children's Program (3 to adult)
Featuring Nyla Ching-Fujii and bluesman/balladeer Jeffry Stephen Babb:

Tomorrow: Kahului, Maui, 10:30 a.m.
Saturday: Hawaii State Library-Edna Allyn Room at 10:30 a.m., and at Liliha, 3:30 p.m.
Sunday: Kaneohe, 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday: Ewa Beach, 10:30 a.m.; and Pearl City, 3 p.m.
June 30: Salt Lake-Moanalua, 5:30 p.m.

Children (ages 5 to adult)
Featuring Joe Miller:

Tuesday: Pahala, Big Island, 10:30 a.m.; Naalehu, 2 p.m.
June 24: Lahaina, Maui, 12:30 p.m.
June 25: Manoa, 11 a.m.
June 26: Kaimuki, 2 p.m.
June 28: Kapolei, 6:30 p.m.
June 30: Kailua-Kona 1 p.m.; Holualoa 3 p.m.

Children (ages 8 to adult)
Featuring Vicky Dworkin:

Tomorrow: Lahaina, Maui, at 11:30 a.m., Kihei at 3:30 p.m.
June 23: Kailua, 6:30 p.m.
June 24: Kahuku, 10 a.m.
June 25: Manoa, 11 a.m.
June 26: Kaneohe, 2:30 p.m.
July 6: Pearl City, 3 p.m., Mililani at 6:30 p.m.
July 7: Salt Lake-Moanalua, 5:30 p.m.
July 9: Waialua, 10 a.m.
July 13: McCully-Moiliili, 3 p.m.
July 19: Kahuku, 6:30 p.m.
July 20: Pearl City, 3 p.m.
July 23: Hawaii State Library-Edna Allyn Room, 11:30 a.m.

Young Adult (12 to adult)
Featuring Miller:

Today: Waipahu, 2:30 p.m.
June 23: Lanai, 1:30 p.m.
June 24: Wailuku, 10 a.m.; Kahului, 3 p.m.
June 28: Liliha, 3 p.m.