Books and Other Media

BayNews
Thematic storytime ideas compiled with lots of links for suggested activities, crafts and book annotations.

Best Kids Book Site
Find more than 330 storytime topics, more than 3,000 crafts, as well as fingerplays and songs. With the click of the mouse, this website can be translated into 10 languages, including Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish!

Book Club Kits for Kids
Wake County Public Libraries has more than 50 titles for you to use with your children's book clubs! Along with up to 14 copies of the book, you also get a discussion guide.

Common Sense Media
This nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization provides trustworthy information and tools, as well as an independent forum, so families can have a choice and a voice about the media they consume.

Ethan’s Bookshelf
Dedicated to helping parents raise lifelong readers with book reviews, best-of lists, tips for parents and community boards, this website can help you choose the right books for your children and encourage them to read, imagine and learn.

International Children’s Digital Library Foundation
Excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community – children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas – by making the best in children's literature available online.

It's Storytime
Find themes for storytime programs, including suggestions for books, finger plays, flannel boards, poetry and more.

Jon Scieszka
Find out more than anyone needs to know about men made of stinky cheese, kids who act like squids, math curses, science verses, time warping and random details about Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

Perpetual Preschool
More than 12,000 free ideas for parents and educators plus 300 everyday, holiday and special-day themes.

Perry Public Library
Great rhymes for babies 0 to 24 months and a list of resources.

Preschool Express
An online educational activity resource for parents, teachers and grandparents of preschool children, designed and totally owned by Jean Warren.

Preschool Rainbow
A good resource of early childhood and preschool education picture books. Books are listed according to educational themes, including both classic and new titles for young children.

The Poetry Foundation
A master of the art of getting kids to try something new, Jack Prelutsky, Children’s Poet Laureate, has been turning children into poetry lovers for many years.

Step by Step Theme Pages
Preschool activities and preschool craft ideas for Daycare Providers, Teachers and Parents, as well as book lists, fingerplays and much more!

The Story Place
An interactive website to provide children with the virtual experience of going to the library and participating in the same types of activities the library offers, plus reading lists!

The Virtual Vine
A resource for Early Childhood teachers, preschool through second grade. It's a site filled with ideas and activities to make teaching and learning FUN.

WCPL Storytimes
A summary of storytimes throughout the Wake County Public Library system. Click on the link of the library closest to you to find out when storytimes are happening.

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