Puppets to portray ‘Peter and the Wolf’ at library

The Huntington Beach Central Library, 7111 Talbert Ave., will present Jim Gamble’s puppet production of “Peter and the Wolf” at 4 and 6 p.m. Wednesday in the theater.

The story, a 1936 orchestral fairy tale by Sergei Prokofiev, follows the boy Peter, who ignores his grandfather and successfully goes out to capture a wolf, with the help of a friendly bird, an excitable duck and some hunters; a sneaky cat tries to hunt the birds.

The story introduces children to instruments like the oboe and bassoon.

Tickets are $4 per person; for more information, call (714) 375-5107.

— Candice Baker