Are you looking for new ways to fill the longer days and ensure your children are learning all year long? While we cannot overstate the importance of daily reading to achieve both objectives, we also offer novel ways to entertain and educate throughout the year with special collections in the Children’s Library.
Tonies
Tonies are small, hand-painted characters that work with a Toniebox: a child-friendly, screen-free audio player. Each Tonie character unlocks a world of audio content—from beloved fairy tales and classic stories to educational adventures and music. They are great for storytime, classrooms, imaginative play and quiet bedtime routines.
If you already have a Toniebox at home, you can borrow additional characters to explore new stories, from Disney characters to Diary of a Wimpy Kid. No Toniebox? No problem. We loan out Tonieboxes, too, with headphones and four characters included in each bag.
Youth Kits
Don’t lose school-year progress during the summer months. Children's Kits offer tactile, interactive experiences to support learning and daily activities. Most importantly, they make learning fun!
EQ Kits promote learning skills related to regulating and processing emotions, social skills, and memory, while STEAM Kits focus on skills in science, technology, engineering and math. Play to Learn kits include items that facilitate play and build language, memory, reading and other skills. Sensory kits provide tools for neurodiverse children with items that facilitate focus, improve self-regulation, increase tolerance, calm or energize, and provide needed stimulation.
Tonies and kits can be checked out for 21 days, placed on hold, and auto-renew if no hold is placed on them.
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