Most Circulated of Youth Services 2025
Most Popular Items
Welcome to the Most Circulated Youth Services of 2025! We’re thrilled to share the top reads and popular items that library families loved over the past year. Parkland Community Library offers engaging learning tools, including secure, battery-powered Launchpads. These devices aren’t connected to the internet, so you can relax knowing your child’s browsing and gameplay is safe. Plus, we’ve added STEAM kits to our Library of Things Collection—these engaging, hands-on learning tools are not only educational but also fun!
Throughout the years, our library patrons have enjoyed a wide variety of genres and authors. This year’s most-circulated titles feature two very popular authors who are favorites with many readers.
Thank you so much for being part of our community! We hope you find your next favorite book or activity below!
The Most Ciculated of Youth Services
And the winners are…
STEAM Kits
Building and Design
Explore the Building and Design STEAM kit with hands-on activities. Children can foster creativity and design skills through the KEVA Brain Builder and City Engineering sets, engaging their engineering and design abilities.
Learn to Measure
Science, technology, engineering, and math require precision; this kit teaches measurement basics like mass, length, volume, and fractional relationships.
Launchpads
In the Word Jungle!
“Kids will build a solid foundation of letter, word, and reading skills with these interactive games, challenges, and stories. Learn basic reading skills; practice spelling hundreds of words; master upper- and lowercase letters; and improve letter and word pronunciation.”
Time in Numbers!
“Little learners will go on a math adventure that teaches critical early math skills. Learn to tell time and set a clock. Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and more. Discover math with money and decimals. Develop problem-solving techniques.”
#1 Movie
Dog Man
Universal Pictures presents; a DreamWorks Animation
When a police dog and his officer owner are injured, a crazy surgery fuses them, creating Dog Man! He works to impress his Chief and prevent Petey the Cat from cloning himself and creating an evil kitten that would double his evil powers.
Top Authors Round Out
the Most Circulated of Youth Services
Youth Services is proud to feature the beloved authors Mo Willems and Dav Pilkey. The hilarious Elephant & Piggie series comfortably holds the top three spots in circulation, bringing joy to many. Following closely, Dav Pilkey’s popular Captain Underpants and Dog Man series occupy the next three positions, underscoring their widespread appeal.
#2 About Dav Pilkey:
When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. He was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit in the hallway every day. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories, so he spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books—the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.
Since then, Dav has written and illustrated several bestselling and award-winning children’s books, including the Caldecott Honor book The Paperboy. His Captain Underpants series and Dog Man graphic novels have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into many languages.
Dav lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, but his writing is inspired by children and adults around the world. His stories explore universally positive themes that celebrate the triumph of the good-hearted.
#1 Mo Willems Biography:
Mo Willems was born Maurice Charles Willems on February 11, 1968, in Des Plaines, Illinois, and grew up in New Orleans. Mo drew cartoons throughout his childhood and was a big fan of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts cartoons.
He also performed stand-up comedy in high school. After traveling and living in London as a comedian, Mo returned to the U.S. and attended college, studying film and animation and earning a degree from New York University. He then worked for the Children’s Television Workshop as an award-winning writer and animator for Sesame Street from 1994 to 2002.
In 2003, Mo wrote his first children’s picture book, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, which received his first Caldecott Honor Award. Mo Willems is currently the author and illustrator of more than 50 books, including his most beloved characters, Knuffle Bunny, the Pigeon, and Elephant & Piggie. Their books are now translated into over 25 languages. Some of his books have been adapted into musicals and performed worldwide.
To date, Mo has received three Caldecott Honors, two Geisel Medals, five Geisel Honors, six Emmy Awards, and numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers. In 2019, Mo became the first Education Artist-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. He lives in Massachusetts with his family.
Fetching All Dog Man Lovers!
Stream the adventures with this collection of books and comics on hoopla.
Unleash your inner hero with the Dog Man Scholastic comics collection on hoopla! Dive into the hilarious, heartwarming adventures of Dog Man, the crime-biting canine who’s part dog, part man, and all hero. Perfect for Dog Man fans, this collection delivers endless fun and excitement.
hoopla offers a vast collection of comics, graphic novels, and manga, all free with your library card. Borrow, stream, and download on iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and more. Exclusively available to PCL home library patrons and paying non-residents.
We’re excited to share this special collection of the Most Circulated Youth Services books and materials, which we hope will spark a love of reading and learning in your home. Thank you for being a wonderful part of our community. We can’t wait to continue offering you helpful resources and services that support your family’s literacy journey in 2026 and beyond!
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