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Winter Games Reading Club (for kids between the ages of 4 and 10) begins on December 20th!  Winter Reading Club is a program designed and carried out by teen volunteers under the supervision of the Youth Services staff of the Parkland Community Library. 

This year's Winter Reading Coordinator is Christina Smith from Cadette Scout Troop 6202.

Click here for the Winter Reading Club schedule, booklists, downloadable forms, websites and more.

Click in the box below to go to Tumblebooks.com and read dozens of picture books and chapter books online!

 

For other links, click here.

Upcoming Events:

Programs for School-aged children:

Storytimes (ages birth to 5)

LINKS:

LookyBook:  Test drive picture books before you buy.  http://lookybook.com/

Starfall:  Sound out words with Starfall's picture stories.  http://www.starfall.com/

Boys will love Jon Sciezka's Trucktown  http://www.behindthepulse.com/trucktown/index.php 

www.janbrett.com  Jan Brett's site boasts of 4138 FREE pages of activities, coloring pages and stuff.

http://www.icdlbooks.org/  Write your own book or read books and stories written by children around the world at this site.  The mission of the site is to make children aware of other countries besides their own and to foster global understanding.

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ David K. Brown gathers websites that deal with books for toddlers through young adults. Take a look at his links.

http://www.parents-choice.org/ Parents' Choice offers recommendations on books, videos, toys, games, movies, music and other media for infants through teens.

http://www.bookhive.orgProduced by the librarians in Charlotte, NC, The Bookhive is a colorful, useful site. They even have Top 20 lists for grades 1 through 8. These are just suggestions, but the site is a good place to start.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-3D-Paper-Snowflake  Directions for  a great hanging snowflake.

Contact us at Parkland Community Library

4422 Walbert Avenue • Allentown, PA 18104 • Phone: 610-398-1361