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Kids News and Kids Programs are regularly updated sections that feature the latest library and book news for kids and parents! Discuss My Rules for Online Safety with your children before they go online, and find tips for Safe Surfing the Internet from various Safety Related Websites.
Homework Help is available in person at the library’s Homework Center, and many homework resources are available online through web-sites designed specifically to support the homework questions of school-age children. Search Tools for Kids includes kid-friendly search engines and web guides created by educators and librarians can direct kids to specific recommended web-sites. Explore award-winning children’s books and recommended book series in Good Reads.
The Preschool Playground selects age-appropriate web-sites that will entertain and educate young children. Visual pages with recognizable characters from popular children’s books and educational programming are easier to navigate for those users who are developing their pre-literacy skills.
Just for Fun features links to online games and fun activities that children enjoy. Topics include sports, dinosaurs, magic tricks, favorite cartoons, coloring pages and silly stories.
Go on safari in the savanna with Here is the African Savanna, choose your own African adventure in Race Forever, or try a tasty treat with Food & Recipes of Africa.
Don't forget to turn in your registration form and get your passport stamped by 2 pm on Sunday, November 8 in order to be...
A joint project by the Technical Services and Youth Services staff at the library will improve the way children's entertainment DVDs are organized. Library staff who work closely with children and their parents report that most customers are looking for media materials based on the age of the viewer.
The new list of genres will be:
Take a trip down south – way, way down south to Antarctica. Be sure to have a cup of hot chocolate to warm yourself up while you read these books!
Children’s
South Pole Penguins – Amanda Lumry & Laura Hurwitz – E LUM