Come get cozy at the bookshop with High Five Books over the long Thanksgiving weekend with all-day AND evening shopping, crafting, and snacking. On Friday, 11/28 and Saturday, 11/29, invite all your visiting relatives to join you for a family holiday hangout at High Five Books!

Come get cozy at the bookshop with High Five Books over the long Thanksgiving weekend with all-day AND evening shopping, crafting, and snacking. On Friday, 11/28 and Saturday, 11/29, invite all your visiting relatives to join you for a family holiday hangout at High Five Books!

Hang out with other comic-crazy kids and draw, talk comics, and hear what it’s like running a comic book store from Xtian of Comics n’More!

Learn from featured teaching artist Lo Roux (@lo.and.behold.ceramics) how to create your own lino-block print, and use that to create your own mini-tapestry! Perfect to add a unique touch to your wall, or to gift

Kid Mart is back! Families are invited to come shop our patio full of kid makers, tinkerers, crafters, and artists. Come support our youngest entrepreneurs as they make & sell handmade art, wearables, decor, treats, & more! November 1 on the patio at High Five Books!

Come draw along with bestselling graphic novelist Kayla Miller! The author/illustrator of CLICK, CAMP, ACT, CLASH, CRUNCH, BREAK, STUCK, and BESTIES will be in the High Five Books studio after school from 3-5pm on Tuesday, October 28. Please join us for a free meet-and-greet (and draw!) with Kayla, who’ll show us how they draw Olive and their other WORLD OF CLICK characters.

Hooray, it’s Queer Kids Fest 2025! On Saturday, October 25, 10am-2:30pm, join us for a joyful festival of music, art, books, and creativity for 2SLGBTQIA+ kids, families, and allies at the Northampton Center for the Arts!

Wistariahurst Museum is delighted to bring another fang-tastic and ghoulishly delightful sensory-friendly event into our halls for the Halloween season! Our bewitching trick-or-treat event will let you and your little goblins enjoy an adventure in our haunted halls designed for families with sensory. Monsters of all ages will have a chance to collect six spook-tacular items through gentle exploration throughout the museum and choose from prizes ranging from candy to fidget toys. Guests are welcome and encouraged to wear their fun, festive costumes throughout their journey through the museum.

Get ready for another amazing Dia de Los Muertos celebration with Attack Bear Press and Wistariahurst Museum with a special calaveras (skull) painting event. Dia de Los Muertos is a special tradition that allows people to celebrate and remember deceased loved ones by decorating an ofrenda, a communal altar dedicated to those dearly departed. On October 19th, we invite you to paint your clay calaveras to add to the annual ofrenda hosted at the museum again this year

Young readers and their supportive grownups are invited to join us for a launch gathering for the debut issue of Chrysalis, a new literary magazine by trans youth, for trans youth. The evening will be hosted by award-winning author and National Book Award nominee Kyle Lukoff, a contributing editor to Chrysalis, and take place in the High Five Books studio.

Join High Five Books for a Friday morning musical storytime for the launch of BABY BALLENA, the beautiful, bilingual new picture book from local musician and author MISTER G.

In celebration of Banned Books Week (October 5-11, 2025), please join us for a cozy, after-hours read-in at High Five Books! We have plenty of comfy spots to settle into and oodles of great books, of course: Bring your own, or browse our shelves.

Join High Five Books for a launch celebration for THANK YOU, OLD OAK, by local author, scientist, and professor Britt Crow-Miller! They’ll have reading, crafts, and signing. All are welcome and participation is FREE.

Join us for a sweet kids' cookbook release: CUPCAKE CLASS! We’ll decorate cupcakes with local, best-selling children's baking authors Deanna Cook and Joy Howard.

Queer, trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive kiddos + families & friends are welcome to join us for crafts, popsicles, and movies this summer! At this second pop-up, we'll be screening episodes of GRAVITY FALLS and snacking (bring your own to share or eat ours!)

NPC Summer Playgroups - Tuesdays 9:30am-11:30am from 7/1-8/12 at the Jackson Street School in Northampton

You bring the fabric items—t-shirts, bags, hats, pillowcases, etc.—and we’ll have blocks & ink! This is your family's chance to print amazing images from our wall mural (by local artist Sunny Allis) on the goodies you want. (Yes, we'll have our logo available, too!) Our instructor Corrie will have all the supplies ready for you to block print on our patio and bring your items home to rinse. Drop in anytime 10am-6pm on Friday August 8 and/or Saturday August 9 to come craft!

You bring the fabric items—t-shirts, bags, hats, pillowcases, etc.—and we’ll have blocks & ink! This is your family's chance to print amazing images from our wall mural (by local artist Sunny Allis) on the goodies you want. (Yes, we'll have our logo available, too!) Our instructor Corrie will have all the supplies ready for you to block print on our patio and bring your items home to rinse. Drop in anytime 10am-6pm on Friday August 8 and/or Saturday August 9 to come craft!

NPC Summer Playgroups - Tuesdays 9:30am-11:30am from 7/1-8/12 at the Jackson Street School in Northampton

NPC Summer Playgroups - Tuesdays 9:30am-11:30am from 7/1-8/12 at the Jackson Street School in Northampton

NPC Summer Playgroups - Tuesdays 9:30am-11:30am from 7/1-8/12 at the Jackson Street School in Northampton