About Us
About Us
About Us
The Taste of Huntington Beach is much-loved community event, raising funds for the Friends of the Children’s Library.
The Friends of the Children's Library (FOTCL) is an all-volunteer group that supports the Children's Department of the Huntington Beach Public Library. We sponsor a variety of educational and informative activities for children in our community throughout the year. We are 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Since 2001, the Taste has raised over $650,000 for the Children’s Department of our Public Library. For more information, visit www.fotcl.org.
Key benefits provided by the Taste of Huntington Beach to the Children’s Department of the Huntington Beach Public Library include the following and much, much more!
- Books for the children’s departments at all branches of the Huntington Beach Library
- Monthly educational and entertaining programs: plays, puppet shows, ballets and musical events
- A yearly Authors Festival that brings children’s authors to students at local schools
- Annual Writing & Illustrating Contest, recognizing young authors & illustrators for their creativity, originality, and imaginations
- Festival of Folktales in June with games and shows to kick off the Summer Reading Program
- The annual Summer Reading Program; over 5,000 students read books in the summer of 2018
- Special events such as writing workshops and author programs at the branches
- Storytelling and Reading program (STAR) where volunteers read weekly to children at all branches
- Infrastructure in the Children’s Library, such as shelving, carpeting and upgraded sound systems
- Computers and electronic media, used frequently for the homework help