AUBURN – Weekly preschool story programs will resume at the Auburn Public Library on Wednesday, Sept. 12.

Each Wednesday through Dec. 12 the Children’s Services Department will offer two story programs: one at 9:30 a.m. and another at 10:30. Patrons may attend whichever is more convenient.

This year the format will be altered to help ensure quality service to children and their families. Each week families will gather in the Children’s Room and, while their grownups and other children remain in the Children’s Room to chat, make new friends and choose books, the 3- to 5-year-old children will parade together across the hall to the Maggie Trafton Program Room to enjoy picture books, songs and finger plays.

To reduce distractions, no one will be admitted after the program room door is closed. All are welcome to join.

Library volunteer Judy D’Amour will bring interactive Saturday stories to young children at 10 a.m. Sept. 15 in the Children’s Room.

Apple season has arrived in Auburn orchards and D’Amour will celebrate with apple stories, apple rhymes and apple finger plays. She will read stories including Pat Hutchins’ “Ten Red Apples,” and children may trace an arm and a hand to make an apple tree to take home.

A lap-sit program for babies through 24 months and their parents/caregivers will be held on the Children’s Room story quilt from 6 to 6:20 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20. The program will continue the first and third Thursday evenings through Dec. 6. Babies and parents will sing songs, rhymes, clapping games, flannel stars and meeting each other during Baby’s Night Out.

Through funding from the Auburn/Lewiston Kiwanis Club, the Auburn Public Library offers free and discounted family passes to many Maine museums and parks. Visit or phone the library to reserve a pass or for more information about these and other programs at 333-6640, ext. 2004, or www.auburnpubliclibrary.org.