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Storytime with the Library

Join a storytime wherever and whenever you'd like. Try our popular movers and shakers storytimes.

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Storytime at the Library or Home

Join a library storytime wherever and whenever for songs, stories, and inspiration.

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Free Library Apps and Digital Resources for Kids

Libby

Check out thousands of eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, and read-along books.

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Homework HelpNow

Tutors guide students through homework challenges helping them develop the necessary skills to complete assignments on their own all online.

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Tumblebooks

Over 1100 titles for grades K-6 include animated picture books, read-along chapter books, graphic novels, fiction, and nonfiction books

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Kanopy

Stream over 3,000 movies, documentaries, foreign and indie films, classic cinema, shorts, educational videos, and children’s programming.

Libby

Check out thousands of eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, and read-along books.

Online Resource

Homework HelpNow

Tutors guide students through homework challenges helping them develop the necessary skills to complete assignments on their own all online.

Online Resource

Tumblebooks

Over 1100 titles for grades K-6 include animated picture books, read-along chapter books, graphic novels, fiction, and nonfiction books

Online Resource

Kanopy

Stream over 3,000 movies, documentaries, foreign and indie films, classic cinema, shorts, educational videos, and children’s programming.

Favorite Kids Books

Our staff's booklists are packed with great titles your kids will love.

Staff Picks for Kids

Check out these new hot titles chosen by our team of expert librarians.

Celebrate Black History Month - Black Voices

Check out these new novels! From fantasy, thrillers, mysteries, romance, humor, contemporary fiction, to something in between.

Celebrate Black History - Extraordinary Lives - 2025

Learn about the extraordinary people who helped shape American history and who are continuing to shape its future.

Staff Picks for Kids

Check out these new hot titles chosen by our team of expert librarians.

Celebrate Black History Month - Black Voices

Check out these new novels! From fantasy, thrillers, mysteries, romance, humor, contemporary fiction, to something in between.

Celebrate Black History - Extraordinary Lives - 2025

Learn about the extraordinary people who helped shape American history and who are continuing to shape its future.

New Kids Books to Check Out

Great Read Alongs

Blog Posts for Parents and Educators

Reading to Your Kids at Home Is About Much More Than Books

Explore some fun ways to make your at-home reading time fun, memorable, and a pathway to reading readiness.

Library Customers ‘Keep Looking Up’ With Telescope Lending

The Library partners with Dean Regas to lend telescopes to customers.

Spend a Day with Youth Librarian Adrienne Washington

Follow a day with one of CHPL’s newest Youth Librarians as she engages teens and tweens at the Mt. Washington Branch Library.

Reading to Your Kids at Home Is About Much More Than Books

Explore some fun ways to make your at-home reading time fun, memorable, and a pathway to reading readiness.

Library Customers ‘Keep Looking Up’ With Telescope Lending

The Library partners with Dean Regas to lend telescopes to customers.

Spend a Day with Youth Librarian Adrienne Washington

Follow a day with one of CHPL’s newest Youth Librarians as she engages teens and tweens at the Mt. Washington Branch Library.

Ohio Imagination Library , opens a new window

All Ohio families with children under 5 can get a free book each month with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio, opens a new window.

Want to learn more? Discover important Early Literacy Tips, opens a new window from our staff.

Talk

Talking with children helps them learn oral language, one of the most critical early literacy skills. Children learn about language by listening to parents talk and joining in the conversation.

Sing

Singing develops language skills. Slows down language so children can hear the different sounds in words. Helps children learn new words and information.

Read

Reading together develops vocabulary and comprehension, nurtures a love for reading, and motivates children to want to learn to read.

Play

Play is one of the best ways for children to learn language and literacy skills. They learn about language through playing as the activities help them put thoughts into words and talk about what they are doing.