Stories to GoThese 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 ShelfWe have a special shelf just for parenting books in the kids room at the Downtown library. Stop in, or browse it online!
Downloadable BooksAADL 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:
Youth Picture Books (defaults to 'dinosaurs', just change to any topic you want to search) Youth Readers (defaults to 'dinosaurs', just change to any topic you want to search) Youth Fiction (defaults to 'dinosaurs', just change to any topic you want to search) Youth Non-Fiction (defaults to 'dinosaurs', just change to any topic you want to search) Books and Stories Kits (Contains a book and CD of a story in a blue bag. Located at Downtown only)
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: