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Dance Together: Creative Movement Class
Discover the joy of ballet with The Philadelphia Dance Academy ! This monthly series incorporates music, imagination, ballet vocabulary, and movement to introduce participants to the structure of dance class. This free program is…
Dance Together: Creative Movement Class
Discover the joy of ballet with The Philadelphia Dance Academy ! This monthly series incorporates music, imagination, ballet vocabulary, and movement to introduce participants to the structure of dance class. This free program is…
Dance Together: Creative Movement Class
Discover the joy of ballet with The Philadelphia Dance Academy! This monthly series incorporates music, imagination, ballet vocabulary, and movement to introduce participants to the structure of dance class. This free program is…
Dance Together: Creative Movement Class
Discover the joy of ballet with The Philadelphia Dance Academy ! This monthly series incorporates music, imagination, ballet vocabulary, and movement to introduce participants to the structure of dance class. This free program is…
Claymobile Creations
Children and families are invited to create their own piece of art with teaching artists from the Claymobile!
Dance Together: Creative Movement Class
Discover the joy of ballet with The Philadelphia Dance Academy! This monthly series incorporates music, imagination, ballet vocabulary, and movement to introduce participants to the structure of dance class. This free program is…
Music for Tiny Friends Library Tour!
It's a special Music for Tiny Friends Library Tour, one Saturday each month from October through March! All events are at 10:30 a.m. October 18: Lillian Marrero Library - 601 W Lehigh Ave November 15: Kensington…
Dance Together: Creative Movement Class
Discover the joy of ballet with The Philadelphia Dance Academy ! This monthly series incorporates music, imagination, ballet vocabulary, and movement to introduce participants to the structure of dance class. This free program is…
Claymobile Creations
Children and families are invited to create their own piece of art with teaching artists from the Claymobile! Also please join us for the Claymobile's last visit next month on April 6th at 4PM!
Dance Together: Creative Movement Class
Discover the joy of ballet with The Philadelphia Dance Academy! This monthly series incorporates music, imagination, ballet vocabulary, and movement to introduce participants to the structure of dance class. This free program is…
Preschool Storytime and Play!
Preschool Storytime and Play! 10:30 a.m. Join us for fun stories and songs followed by creative play! For children ages 3-5 accompanied by an adult.
Music for Tiny Friends Library Tour!
It's a special Music for Tiny Friends Library Tour, one Saturday each month from October through March! All events are at 10:30 a.m. October 18: Lillian Marrero Library - 601 W Lehigh Ave November 15: Kensington…
Dance Together: Creative Movement Class
Discover the joy of ballet with The Philadelphia Dance Academy ! This monthly series incorporates music, imagination, ballet vocabulary, and movement to introduce participants to the structure of dance class. This free program is…
Preschool Storytime and Play!
Preschool Storytime and Play! 10:30 a.m. Join us for fun stories and songs followed by creative play! For children ages 3-5 accompanied by an adult.
Claymobile Creations
Children and families are invited to create their own piece of art with teaching artists from the Claymobile! Join us on the following dates - 3/2/26, 4/6/26
Dance Together: Creative Movement Class
Discover the joy of ballet with The Philadelphia Dance Academy! This monthly series incorporates music, imagination, ballet vocabulary, and movement to introduce participants to the structure of dance class. This free program is…
Preschool Storytime
Come join Ms. Susan and Ms. Haley for stories, songs, and interactive fun for children 2-5 years old! Stay afterwards for playtime with manipulatives and themed activities.
Preschool Storytime
Come join Ms. Susan and Ms. Haley for stories, songs, and interactive fun for children 2-5 years old! Stay afterwards for playtime with manipulatives and themed activities.
Infant/Toddler Storytime
Come join Ms. Susan and Ms. Haley for stories, songs, and interactive fun for children 0-2 years old! Stay afterwards for playtime with manipulatives and themed activities.
Music for Tiny Friends Library Tour!
It's a special Music for Tiny Friends Library Tour, one Saturday each month from October through March! All events are at 10:30 a.m. October 18: Lillian Marrero Library - 601 W Lehigh Ave November 15: Kensington…
LGBTQ Middle Grade Books
Books featuring LGBTQ characters and voices within children's fiction.
Ramadan Picture Books
Read all about Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, and celebrate Eid al Fitr with these great books.
The Books We Loved Growing Up
What books did Children's librarians read when they were kids? We've picked some of our favorites for you to enjoy!
Remembering Maurice Sendak
Books by the famous author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.
Children's Books about Adoptive, Foster or Blended Families
Handpicked by Children’s Librarians all over the Free Library, this book list features the best picture books, nonfiction books, poetry and more that help parents introduce their children to different kinds of families, including foster…
LGBTQ Picture Books
Books for children of LGBTQ parents, or for little brothers and sisters of LGBTQ teens.
The Pura Belpré Award
The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for…
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year. The award is named in…
Picture Books about Social Justice
A picture is worth a thousand words...
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Books that have won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award (named after Dr. Seuss), which recognizes authors and illustrators of the most distinguished book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year.
Caldecott Award
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist…
Coretta Scott King Author Award
The Coretta Scott King Author Award is given annually to outstanding African American authors of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. The award…
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
The Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award is given annually to outstanding African American illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. The…
Asian American Children's Books
Great books that feature Asian characters.
African American
Great books that feature African American characters.
Poetry - Children's Poetry for Everyone
The young and the young at heart will relish children’s poetry for all ages.
Poetry - New Poetry for Children
Enjoy new poetry books for children
Back to School - Children
A list curated by Children’s Librarians to help your young ones get ready and accustomed to school.
Fantasy - Children
Children will lose themselves in these magical worlds of fantasy and adventure, plus there is sure to be some crazy creatures roaming through these pages as well.
Martin Luther King - Books for Children
Biography and stories about Martin Luther King, Jr
TumbleBooks
TumbleBooks is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. Check out our home user guide
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
With an extraordinary array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of streaming music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds, users can listen to performances by American folk icons such as Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger…
Ready4K
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Popular Music Library
Popluar Music Library contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk,…
Overdrive World Languages eReading Room
Download ebooks and audiobooks in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, French, and other languages. Get the Libby app to borrow on the go.
OverDrive Sala de Lectura Electrónica en Español
Descargue libros electrónicos y audiolibros en español para niños, adolescentes y adultos. (Download ebooks and audiobooks in Spanish for kids, teens, and adults.)
Overdrive Kid's eReading Room
Ebooks and audiobooks from Overdrive for young readers. Get the Libby app to borrow on the go.
New York Times Anywhere
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Mango Languages
Mango Languages is an online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages.
Literature Criticism Online
This extensive compilation of literary commentary represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras, and genres. Covers Children’s, Classical, Contemporary, Drama, Poetry, Shakespearean,…
KidsHealth
KidsHealth is more than just the facts about health. As part of The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, KidsHealth also provides families with perspective, advice, and comfort about a wide range of physical,…
Bettina L. Love | Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
In conversation with Marc Lamont Hill Bettina L. Love is the author of the bestseller We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom , winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education…
Camika Royal | Not Paved For Us: Black Educators and Public School Reform in Philadelphia
In conversation with Edwin Mayorga and Sharif El-Mekki For 20 years Camika Royal was a middle and high school teacher and a teaching coach for her fellow educators in Baltimore, Washington, DC, and her hometown of Philadelphia.…
Brian Westbrook Sr. and Lesley Van Arsdall | The Mouse Who Played Football
In their illustrated children’s book, Brian Westbrook Sr. and Lesley Van Arsdall tell the story of a determined little critter named Brian who overcomes his small size to become a star in the Mouse Football League. Brian Westbrook, Sr. …
Dorothy Roberts | Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
In conversation with Marc Lamont Hill Addressing social justice issues of policing, state surveillance of families, and science, Dorothy Roberts ’s books include Killing the Black Body , Shattered Bonds , and Fatal Invention . She has…
Kristin Henning | The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
In conversation with Marsha Levick, cofounder, deputy director, and chief counsel of the Juvenile Law Center The Blume Professor of Law and director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at the Georgetown University Law Center,…
Eoin Colfer | Highfire
In conversation with Jon McGoran, author of Splintered Eoin Colfer is the internationally acclaimed author of the Artemis Fowl series, which chronicles the “magical” ( Washington Post ) adventures of a young antihero criminal…
Mary Pope Osborne | Magic Tree House: To the Future, Ben Franklin! with Natalie Pope Boyce
Mary Pope Osborne is the prolific author of the beloved Magic Tree House series of children’s books. Featuring time-traveling brother and sister Jack and Annie, the wildly popular books have been translated into nearly three dozen…
Kirsten Gillibrand | Bold and Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote
In conversation with award-winning journalist Tracey Matisak. On the eve of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduces children to ten…
Maxwell King | The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers with David Newell “Mr. McFeely” of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
In conversation with award-winning journalist Tracey Matisak It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood as we welcome Maxwell King, author of The Good Neighbor , a personal, professional, and artistic biography of Fred Rogers. A figure as…
Junot Díaz | Islandborn
Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , the “unruly, manic, seductive” ( Esquire ) multigenerational tale of a cursed Dominican family. He is also the…
Matt de la Peña and Loren Long | Love
Watch the video here . Matt de la Peña was awarded the Newbery Medal and a Caldecott Honor for Last Stop on Market Street , a children’s book that highlighted volunteerism, income inequality, and other topics not often addressed by the…
Jennifer Weiner | Little Bigfoot, Big City
Watch the video here . Jennifer Weiner is the “funny, fierce, feisty” ( Glamour ) no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels that dive headlong into the ups and downs of relationships, careers, and family…
Douglas Brunt | Trophy Son in conversation with Megyn Kelly
Watch the video here . In conversation with Megyn Kelly, host of Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly Ghosts of Manhattan , Douglas Brunt’s New York Times bestselling debut novel about a flawed but highflying Bear Stearns bond trader, took “a…
Evelyn Coleman | Freedom Train
It’s 1947, and twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason is proud to have an older brother who guards the Freedom Train—a train that is traveling to all forty-eight states carrying the country’s most important documents, including the Declaration…
Jamie Lee Curtis | This Is Me: A Story of Who We Are & Where We Came From
One of film’s most compelling presences since her screen debut almost 40 years ago, Jamie Lee Curtis’ diverse résumé includes roles in Halloween , Trading Places , A Fish Called Wanda , Freaky Friday , and True Lies , for which she won…
Jacqueline Woodson | Brown Girl Dreaming
The author of more than two dozen books for young adults, Jacqueline Woodson has won three Newbery Honors, a Coretta Scott King Award and three Coretta Scott King Honors, as well as the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s…
WOAR
Women Organized Against Rape—Philadelphia's Only Rape Crisis Center. Women Organized Against Rape is a non-profit organization whose mission is to eliminate sexual violence.
We Can Teach Kids Consent Without Bringing Sex Into the Conversation
How a sexuality educator about how she began broaching the topic of consent and boundaries with her 4-year old.
The Consensual Project
The Consensual Project partners with schools and universities to bring students a fresh understanding of consent. The innovative curriculum, workshops, and website empower young people to incorporate consent into their daily lives.
Scarleteen
Advice, help, and information about teen sexuality. Special sections for teen gals and guys. This special section has a ton of information about what consent looks like.
RAINN
RAINN – Rape Abuse & Incest National Network – is an anti-sexual assault organization working with local rape crisis centers across the U.S. Also has a web-based crisis hotline providing live and anonymous support.
Philly schools pass sweeping policy protecting transgender students
"Without debate or comments from the public, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission adopted a policy on Thursday, June 16 that immediately allows transgender students to, among other things, be referred to by their pronoun of choice;…
Organize a Childern's Space
Fun and creative ways to organize a child's play room or bedroom.
National Geographic Kids - First Thanksgiving
National Geographic Kids serves up a history lesson for kids about the First Thanksgiving, including fun quizzes and games.
Midwest Teen Sex Show
Midwest Teen Sex Show was a comedic, semi-educational video podcast featured brief 3-5 minute monthly episodes on topics relating to teen sexuality like birth control, sexuality, hook-ups and more. Although the show is no longer…
Its Never Too Early To Teach Children About Consent and Boundaries
Great article from a Canadian writer about how parents can model consent and keep the conversation open and positive.
It's On Us
This initiative from the White House aims to change the conversation and the culture around campus sexual assault.
Get your kids reading! Fall picks from the Free Library
Teresa Arnold and Monica Carnesi, Children’s Material Selectors; and Rachel Fryd, Young Adult Materials Selector at the Philadelphia Free Library, give their children's book recommendations to Philly.com
6 Ways to Talk to Your Kids About Consent
This quick article from September 2015 includes 6 tips on how to talk to your kids about consent – its appropriate for parents of children and teens. Bonus points – funny gifs.
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Resources and stories focused on male survivors of unwanted or abusive sexual experiences in childhood live healthier, happier lives.