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Children's Literature

Find children's literature, including award winning titles

Finding Children's eBooks in Databases

From the library's homepage, select Databases A-Z, either in the top navigation bar or beneath the catalog search.

The library's home page, with a red underline beneath the Database A-Z Button

Selecting "Database A-Z" opens a listing of the databases the library has access to. It can be filtered based on the first letter of a database by clicking on the letters, narrowing your search by Subject, or searching by the title of the database, as in this example. 

Within the Database A-Z List, showing a conducted search of "Hoopla" in the database title field, and the resulting option to open Hoopla

The databases most likely to house children's books are Hoopla and Tumblebooks. 

  • Hoopla includes collections for all ages that include works such as the New York Times Bestsellers: Children's & YA or Read-Along and Read Aloud. 
  • Tumblebooks is an online collection of specifically children's e-books

Hoopla

With Hoopla, you can either search for specific titles, or browse collections by clicking the "Genres & Collections" button in the e-books section. (select e-books under the "Browse" option near the search bar; then scroll to "Genres and Collections") 

The top of the Hoopla screen, including the open search bar

A partial list of the Hoopla Genres and Collections

In order to proceed onto the actual lists of titles, you will need to login or create an account and then login. If you need help to create an account, there's a guide for that. 

Once you've found a book you'd like to borrow, click on the title and click "Borrow." 

From within Hoopla, the title "Anne of Green Gables," with the option to borrow

Tumblebooks

With Tumblebooks, you can either browse the collections, or search through TumbleSearch. 

The landing page for Tumblebooks, with the Tumblesearch button underlined in red

With TumbleSearch, you can search not just by title, author, subject, genre or language, but also Accelerated Reader level and Lexile.

Within Tumblebooks, some of the available search fields: Title, Author, Keyword, Language

When you've found a book you'd like to read, click "Read online" 

A Spanish language book selection within Tumblebooks, David Peces Pinguinos