{"id":4444,"date":"2026-07-30T02:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/bookcon-bpl-program-prosser-8-4-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T02:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:12:36","slug":"bookcon-bpl-program-prosser-8-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/bookcon-bpl-program-prosser-8-4-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"BookCon (BPL Program @ Prosser 8\/4\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Event date:<\/strong> August 4, 2026 <br \/><strong>Event Time: <\/strong>01:00 PM &#8211; 08:00 PM<br \/><strong>Location:<\/strong> <br \/>1 Tunxis Ave<br \/>Bloomfield, CT 06002-0337<br \/><strong>Description:<\/strong><br \/>BPL&#8217;s Youth BookCon is Back!<\/p>\n<p>What is BookCon?<\/p>\n<p>The Bloomfield Public Library Book Conference &#8211; or &#8220;BookCon&#8221; &#8211; is a chance for kids, tweens and teens to select and go home with FREE books of all kinds (and a variety of extra goodies!):  <\/p>\n<p>Advanced Read Copies (ARCs) of picture books, chapter books and graphics from publishers <br \/>Gently used books and graphics from donations<br \/>Bookmarks, buttons, bags, and more!<br \/>How do I participate?<\/p>\n<p>No registration necessary! Just visit the in-person BookCon event in the Prosser Library Community Room. Every child and teen will receive a free tote bag to put their books in&#8230; It&#8217;s as easy as that! <\/p>\n<p>BookCon empowers youth of all ages to select pleasure reading books for themselves. Since the intent of the event is for youth to select their own &#8220;pleasure reads,&#8221; BPL Staff will not allow adults (without children) to select any books, even if they are selecting books for a child\/teen.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date: August 4, 2026 Event Time: 01:00 PM &#8211; 08:00 PMLocation: 1 Tunxis AveBloomfield, CT 06002-0337Description:BPL&#8217;s Youth BookCon is Back! What is BookCon? The Bloomfield Public Library Book Conference &#8211; or &#8220;BookCon&#8221; &#8211; is a chance for kids, tweens &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"BookCon (BPL Program @ Prosser 8\/4\/2026)\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/bookcon-bpl-program-prosser-8-4-2026\/#more-4444\" aria-label=\"Read more about BookCon (BPL Program @ Prosser 8\/4\/2026)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}