Children’s Services

The Library offers a dozen early learning backpacks that teach numbers, shapes, the farm, music, and many more subjects. Explore them in the Children’s Room or borrow them to take home. These are especially effective for the grandparents of visiting youngsters, but parents love them, too!

One of the best ways to raise readers is to expose them to books and stories in enjoyable ways. One of those ways is the Library’s classic Story Time, combining books, songs, music, movement, and fingerplays for children from age 1-5. Whether provided by our staff or by Coordinated Family and Community Engagement (CFCE), it is always a fun time of exploring picture books and helping children to be ready to read. Check the calendar for the current schedule.

Children best retain their skills through practice, and our Summer Reading Program is designed to encourage kids to keep reading through the summer months. Participants sign up in June and will receive a bag of activities and a calendar of events to keep them busy and learning. Look for signup announcements on social media and this page in the spring.

A weekly craft program in our Children’s Department offers art projects that children and their adults can do together. Seasonal themes and essential fine motor skills combine into a project that the children can take home. Let us do the prep work and cleanup! It makes for a great rainy-day activity.

The Library Playground features the pages of a book via signs around the grounds. Walk from sign to sign to read a shortened version of the story, then come into the library and read the whole book again. Many of the stories include unique interactive components, which makes reading them a whole-body experience! Keep an eye out for new stories and related events seasonally.

Wonderbooks

The library now offers Read-along experiences like never before with Playaway Wonderbooks. Wonderbooks are print books with a ready-to-play audiobook inside. Kids will press “play” to read along with their favorite book.