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Read-Alongs

Explore our read-along eBooks to inspire a love of reading and build important reading skills in your little one today. Read-Along titles are stories that include narration.


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Bookflix

Use from home Library Card Required  Books come to life with entertaining and educational stories, rhymes, and songs animated on-screen! This early literacy resource pairs a wide variety of storybooks and nonfiction eBooks for readers up to 3rd grade.

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Come On, Rain! The Tiny Seed
Dinosaur Bones Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site

Kanopy Kids

Use from home Library Card Required  Enjoy unlimited streaming of animated storybooks anytime anywhere with the Kanopy App, watch on a desktop, or stream on your TVExternal Link.

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Read-along Storytimes

Monster, Be Good! Little Sock
Lon Po Po Unicorn (and Horse)

Read-Along 2 Learn

Use from home Library Card Required  Young readers can explore independently or with narrator support and word highlighting. Find topics like sports, animals, emotions, STEM, and more. Hoopla BingePass gives you unlimited access to the entire collection for 7 days with just one borrow!

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What Do You Find In A Backyard I Know Soccer
Suprise Water Parks

The Reading Corner

Use from home Library Card Required  Bring story time to your home or take it on the go! More than 900 videos, designed for kids of all ages, in English, Spanish, Moroccan, Polish, Syrian, and Turkish.

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Caillou Gone Fishing How to Catch a Bear that Loves to Read
My Shadow is Pink Cat Tales

Hoopla Read-Alongs

Use from home Library Card Required  Read-Along & Read Aloud picture books with word highlighting and narration. Click or tap the play button to start read-along feature on hundreds of childrens titles. Read-along feature works on desktop as well as TV and mobile with the Hoopla App.

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Disney Stories

Turning Red by Disney Disney Classic Stories: Strange World by Disney
Moana by Various Authors Lightyear by Disney

Adorable Animals

Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel Chicken in Mittens by Adam Lehrhaupt
Fox at Night by Corey R. Tabor Splat the Cat and the Cat in the Moon by Rob Scotton

Everyday's a Holiday

Pete the Cat's Groovy Guide to Love by James Dean, Kimberly Dean The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky by Jory John
Gobble, Gobble, Tucker! by Leslie McGuirk One Wild Christmas by Nicholas Oldland

Digital Library of Illinois Read-Alongs

Use from home Library Card Required  Read-along with professionally recorded narration that plays along while you read. Click or tap the play button to start the story. Download the Libby App to use on your tablet or mobile device.

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Newly Added Stories

Very Good Hats by Emma Straub and Blanca Gomez Love from Llama Llama by Anna Dewdney
Twelve Dinging Doorbells by Tameka Fryer Brown & Ebony Glenn Little Owl's Love by Divya Srinivasan

Real Stories

Yoshi's Big Swim by Mary Wagley Copp and Kaja Kajfež Dinosaurs from Head to Tail by Stacey Roderick & Kwanchai Moriya
Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick by Sophie Blackall At the Same Moment, Around the World by Clotilde Perrin

Funniest Read-Alongs

I Don't Want to Read This Book by Max Greenfield and Mike Lowery The Giggles Are Coming by Christopher Eliopoulos
Gladys the Magic Chicken by Adam Rubin and Adam Rex High Five by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri

Libby Read-alongs

Use from home Library Card Required  Read-alongs tell stories through pictures, voice narration and word highlighting. Click or tap the play button to start the story. Download the Libby App to listen on mobile.

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New Read-Alongs

Busy Betty by Reese Witherspoon; illustrated by Xindi Yan Fox at Night by Corey R. Tabo
Who Feels Happy, Dear Dragon? by Margaret Hillert I Cry by Katie Marsico

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Scaredy Squirrel at Night by Melanie Watt Save the Day Read-Along eBook by Dani Neiley
The Girl Who Dared Read-Along eBook by Shirin Shamsi Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin and Kimberly Dean; illustrated by James Dean

Random Read-Alongs

Robo-Sauce by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri Noah Dreary by Aaron Blabey
Olivia Saves the Circus by Ian Falconer Be a Friend by Salina Yoon