Books & Stuff

Stories to Go These are a great way for kids to get a curated selection of books on a single topic. Each bag comes with approximately ten picture books on a topic. 

Parent Shelf We have a special shelf just for parenting books in the kids room at the Downtown library. Stop in, or browse it online!

Tools Check out giant games, metal detectors, play animals, musical instruments, and more!
   We've got: 
                     Art Tools                    Home Tools 
                     Music Tools               Science Tools
                     Games                       Puzzles

Downloadable Books AADL doesn't just have stuff to stop in, pick up, and borrow: we've also got stuff you can download right to your home computer and keep as long as you want! Just log in with your AADL library card, download, and you're off!

Catalog Searches Got a kid who's crazy about fairies? Only wants to read about dogs? Will do anything for dinosaurs? Try a targeted word search! You can click on the searches below, but then change "dinosaur" to whatever you want to get picture books, nonfiction, or fiction about that subject: 

Kids Picture Books (link defaults to 'dinosaurs' as an example search, just change 'dinosaurs' to any topic you want to search)
Kids Readers (link defaults to 'dinosaurs' as an example search, just change 'dinosaurs' to any topic you want to search)
Kids Fiction (same thing)
Kids Non-Fiction (same here too)
Books and Stories Kits (Contains a book and CD of a story in a blue bag. Located at Downtown only)
Giant-sized Books (Oversized storytime-style books)

Early Readers - Reading Level Color Dot searches:

To search for specific topics by reading level, just add that topic into the search bar of the links below:

Red Dot Readers    for instance: (series:"Red reading level" bear) or (series:"Red reading level" dinosaur)
Yellow Dot Readers 
Green Dot Readers
Blue Dot Readers