Children

Storytimes

Storytimes provide an important role in helping your child get ready to read. You are your child's first teacher, and home is where your child begins to learn. The public library provides resources to help you talk, sing, read, write and play with your child through the Every Child Ready to Read initiative.

Sensory Playtime

Wednesdays starting January 2026 • 10:00am - 10:45am

Books and Bubbles

Tuesdays • 10:00am - 10:30am
Thursdays • 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Check our calendar for dates.

1000 Books Before Kindergarten

Reading together helps your child build big vocabularies and a lifelong love of books. Join our 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program—it’s free, fun, and flexible. Repeats count, and prizes along the way keep little readers motivated!

Pick up a folder in Youth Services and take the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten Challenge! Pick up a prize for every 100 books read. To start logging your child's books virtually use Beanstack.

Resources for Children

Advocate Children's Health Resource Centers - Access reliable health info
eMedia Library Kids - ebooks & audiobooks
Kanopy Kids - Educational & entertaining videos for children aged 2-8
NoveList K-8 - Find the right book
Reading Rockets - Free, research-based early literacy info

2026 Monarch Award Books

Monarch Award Books 2026
- Mr. S
- Negative cat
- Yoshi, sea turtle genius : a true story about an amazing swimmer
- Sydney & Taylor explore the whole wide world
- Knight Owl
- Beneath
- Thunder and Cluck. Friends do not eat friends
- We are definitely human
- The red jacket
- Hamsters make terrible roommates
- The flower garden
- Butt or face? : can you tell which end you're looking at?
- Time to make art
- Bathe the cat
- Who's afraid of the light?
- Just snow already!
- Home is calling : the journey of the monarch butterfly
- The world's best class plant
- Claude : the true story of a white alligator
- Homegrown

2026 Bluestem Award Books

2026 Bluestem Award Winners
- Dogtown
- The Area 51 files
- Fighting for yes!: the story of disability rights activist Judith Heumann
- A plate of hope : the inspiring story of Chef José Andrés and World Central Kitchen
- Rumaysa : a fairytale
- Butt or face? : can you tell which end you're looking at?
- The deep! : wild life at the ocean's darkest depths
- Millionaires for the month
- Curlfriends : new in town
- Better with Butter
- The Guardian test
- The lost library
- Nell of Gumbling : my extremely normal fairy-tale life
- Escape at 10,000 feet : D.B. Cooper and the missing mone
- The double life of Danny Day
- A royal conundrum