Resources For Children

Children's Books 2012: 100 Titles for Reading & Sharing our staff's recommended 100 books published in 2012

Events for children

Summerreading.org Create avatars, log books & media, win badges...

On-Lion For Kids Great website links, booklists, activies, holidays, online children's books and video from TumbleBooks...

TumbleBooks Watch and read animated picture books online.

Children's Center at 42nd Street Films, story hours, and guest appearances by authors and illustrators or to visit the original Winnie-the-Pooh.

Library services for persons without homes including deposit collections of books at local shelters, read aloud programs for children in shelters, "read-to-me" programs at Branch Libraries, and library orientation at shelters.

Recorded and Braille Books by Mail Recorded and braille titles for residents of all ages who have difficulty reading standard printed materials because of blindness, visual impairment, a physical or reading disability.

Major support for children's and young adult programs and services is provided by the Mr. and Mrs. Timothy R. Barakett Endowment for Children's and Young Adult Programs and Services.

Major support for children's and young adult programming is provided by the Katerina and Andreas C. Dracopoulos Family Endowment for Young Audiences.