Welcome to the Children's Department!

Mosaic created and donated by Anju Jolly, local artist.

The children's department offers books, audios, and movies for children checkout.  Also, during your visit to the library spend time performing a puppet show, enriching your technology skills on our computers, sharing a special book, playing a game, creating an artwork masterpiece, participating in storytime, or being a train engineer.  There is fun waiting @ the Library, the only thing missing is you!

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Summer Reading Starts June 1!

Little Listeners (Ages 2 and Under) Start Here!


Kids Summer Reading Program
Start Here!

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TUMBLEBOOKS ARE HERE!

The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), TumbleTV which consists of pre-set playlists of a sequence of books, Tumble Puzzles & Games, and TumbleResources for teachers and students.  We also have National Geographic videos which we’ve paired with many of our non-fiction titles – perfect support for the Common Core Curriculum!

TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children's book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.

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DuBois Public Library Offers New Resources to Families

    The year 2010 was a good one for the children and families of the City of DuBois and Sandy Township and surrounding areas. Through a federal grant from Library Services and Technology Act Preschool Connections, the DuBois Public Library received materials, furnishings, and staff training to enhance service to our preschool population. The LSTA grant generously provided $2500 to winning libraries to improve materials and services available for children ages 6 months through 5 years old.
    The children’s librarian, Chris Meier, and Rebecca McTavish, the library director, evaluated the Children’s Department then selected a variety of furnishings and materials to enhance the library experience of children and families. The additions to the department included:

• A colorful area rug depicting small children using sign language to brighten the area.
• A changing station offers convenience to parents of very young children.
• A wooden train set encourages children to work together to create train layouts or use their imagination developing stories together.
• An activity cube for very young children encourages early learning.
• A variety of puppets for use in the playhouse and puppet stage.
• Discovery Kits contain a variety of materials and may include books, toys, poems, songs, finger plays, games, manipulatives, and music. The eight Discovery Kits are themed around basic early childhood concepts and are currently for use in the children’s department. The Discovery Kit topics are Shapes, ABCs, Insects, 123s, Senses, Farm Animals, Seasons, and Music. 

    In 2009, the Library created a Parent-Teacher collection of adult materials that are accessible in the Children’s Department and are books related to the rearing and education of children. With the Preschool Connections Grant, the DuBois Public Library added 24 new titles to this collection, which address Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, Early Childhood Education, math, reading, science, art, and music.
     The staff-training component facilitated the redevelopment of programming for preschool children and recommended additional materials and resources to complement the story books already used such as puppets, big books, and flannel boards.