1,000 Books Before Kindergarten

This program encourages you to read 1,000 books to your child before he or she enters school. The program is self-paced and lets you decide how often and how long you read to a your child.

Cruise into Kindergarten

Cruise into Kindergarten is an interactive story time which features stories, music, creative play and exploration and supports School Readiness and the PA Pre-K Standards for literacy, math, science and many other skills. This is a six-week series and pre-registration is required. The program supports PA Forward's Basic Literacy.

Book Flix

Scholastic animated childrens books. Log in to Power Library with your library card number, then choose Book Flix from the Education section.

Power Library KIDS

The POWER Library is offered as a service of Pennsylvania's public libraries, school libraries and the State Library.

The POWER library allows you to access thousands of full text periodical articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, reference materials for young people and more. You will find materials of interest in most subject areas for all age groups from young children to adults.

Ready Rosie

ReadyRosie is an early education tool that is currently helping schools and communities across the nation deepen and scale their parent engagement efforts by leveraging the power of video modeling and mobile technology to meet and equip parents where they are. ReadyRosie has hundreds of brief videos in English and Spanish that model everyday interactions in familiar environments with real parents.

Encyclopedia Britannica Kids

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