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Read After Dark: Winter Reading for All Ages 2025

Winter is the perfect time to cozy up in your blanket fort and strengthen good reading habits! We're reading together and earning prizes. How to participate Winter Reading programs run from December 15, 2025–January 31, 2026. Track your reading and earn prizes in one of two ways: On o...

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Get More From Your Library With These Tips!

Tip #1: New Books Usually Available to Borrow on their Publishing Release Date You may have assumed that the fastest way to get a new book was to buy it, but libraries receive and process new books ahead of time to have them ready to circulate on their official release date. That means that you c...

Listen with Playaways

The Library has a great selection of audiobooks for your listening pleasure. We have the traditional audiobooks on CDs, but we also have another way to listen to books that you may not know about: Playaways! Playaways are small devices with pre-loaded audiobooks that you can plug your headphones int...

Lit Lorie Loves – Great Picture Books for 2-5 Year Olds

Here is a wonderful list of classic and new books that you will not mind reading over and over with your children.

Lit Lorie Loves – Board Books for One-Year-Olds

Here is a wonderful list of classic and new board books that you will not mind reading over and over with your children.

Lit Lorie Loves – Seek and Find Picture Books

What a wonderful way to spend quality time with your child or grandchild is to engage in classic and modern picture books often known as Hide and Seek or I Spy. These picture books are also great to occupy your children during long car or airplane trips.

Kathy's Korner New Fiction for Youth

A round-up of some great new fiction and graphic novels for Gr 2-8. And be sure to look at the Children's Library display of Best Books of 2023 - our favorites.

Kathy's Korner: November New Fiction

A variety of new chapter books, graphic novels, sequels and series for elementary and middle grades.

Lit Lorie Loves – 1000 Books Before Kindergarten

From birth to age 5, your child is experiencing a crucial time of growth and development. Reading with them every day helps prepare them for future success as readers and life‑long learners. Not to mention you will be spending quality time together while promoting a love of reading. Along the way, the Children’s Library staff are here to support you and cheer you on. Stop by the Children’s Library circulation desk for more information on how to enroll your child. Built into the program are book recommendations, here is a small selection from the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten book lists:

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Read the Winning Spooky Stories from the October 2023 Writing Contest!

Thank you to all the kids and teens who submitted spooky stories to our writing contest! Reading all the submissions got us in the Halloween spirit. In addition to a gift card to Lake Forest Book Store, winners of the Library's Spooky Story Writing Contest get their submissions posted on the Libr...

Kathy's Korner: October New Fiction for Grades 3-8

Lots of great new fiction for elementary and middle graders, including the latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer

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Spooky Nonfiction for Grades 3 and Up

Stop by the Children's Library to check out these spooky reads! Boo! Stories to Make You Jump compiled by Laura Cecil, illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark A collection of scary stories and poems, with an emphasis on monsters, ghosts, and witches. Creepy and True...

Kathy's Korner: New Fiction for Grades 3-8

Some exciting new stories from well-known authors such as Rick Riordan, Carl Hiassen, Patricia Wrede, Avi, and plenty of spooky reads in time for Halloween.

Lit Lorie Loves – Read Aloud Cart

Are you invited to be the mystery reader in your child or grandchild’s classroom? We can help you with your selection, with a growing collection of picture books and nonfiction books for your perusal. Just come downstairs and ask the Children’s staff about the read-aloud cart. Here is a small selection of the 99 (plus) books on our purple cart:

Kathy's Korner: Sequels and Series Update for September

GRAPHIC NOVELS: BARB THE LAST BERZERKER (3): BATTLE FOR BAILIWICK by Dan Abdo. A ragtag crew of Berzerkers and five Wise Wizards with rusty powers come together to stop an evil witch from taking over their land, as Barb attempts to harness the mystical power of the Ghost Blade and lea...