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Kids

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.




Recent Posts

Book a Trip: READ Around The World Africa Book List

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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...

Lot of bookworms at Heritage Christian, first-place winners of summer reading program

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Kids who participated in our summer reading program walked away with coupons to local businesses, free books and lasting memories. And even though summer's over and kids are back in school, the memories of the library's SummerFest reading program still live on. Find out how.

R.E.A.D. Dogs Are Everywhere!

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The R.E.A.D. (Read Education Assistance Dogs) program is amazing in its efforts to help children become better readers. The R.E.A.D. Dogs have been coming to the library for a couple of years and have always been a hit with children and grown-ups.  More and more libraries are making these dogs a...

New age-based categories for children’s entertainment DVDs

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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:

  • Infant / Toddler - Includes titles like Baby Einstein
  • Preschool - Includes titles like Arthur
  • Lower Elementary - Includes titles like Pokemon
  • Upper Elementary - Inlcudes titles like Star Wars: Clone Wars
  • Disney
  • Feature
  • Holiday
  • Music

Book a Trip READ: Around the World Antarctica Book List

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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

Something to Tell the Grandcows – Eileen Spinelli – E SPI

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