Reading at Home!

Libby is a free app that allows you to borrow eBooks and digital audiobooks from the Library. You can stream books with Wi-Fi or mobile data, or download them for offline use and read anytime, anywhere. What will you read next? All you need is your library card number!

BookFLIX is a digital literacy resource that pairs more than 120 animated stories from Weston Woods with a best-selling nonfiction eBook from Scholastic on a similar subject. Try BookFLIX and see what it will lead YOU to! All you need is your library card number!

TumbleBooks has ebooks, puzzles, games, audio books and more. Includes a large collection modern children’s picture books with animation. A narrator reads each book aloud.

Storyline Online, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.

Circle Round is a public radio (WBUR Boston) podcast that adapts folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays. Each 10- to 20-minute episode explores important issues like kindness, persistence, and generosity.  As a public radio program, there are sponsor messages, but there are also added features such as suggested activities after each episode that inspire deeper conversations between children and grown-ups.

Story Pirates is the #1 podcast for kids and families. It’s is a group of world-class actors, comedians, improvisers and musicians who adapt stories written by kids into sketch comedy and musical theater. Check it out! But be warned, you won’t be able to listen to just one, you’ll want to hear another and another and another! You might even be inspired to send Story Pirates your very own story! Kids’ stories are amazing, and Story Pirates really makes them come alive!