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Audience: For Children
American Clock & Watch Museum
Learning to read at home: the Sundance Collection
The Avon Free Public Library Children’s Department is happy to announce that our beginning readers “dot books” (orange, pink and purple) also called the Sundance Collection is now available on the Avon Free Public Library website under For Children. It’s the first link on the top! Remember these books? You can now access them digitally!
In order to correctly gain access to the Sundance Collection,you will have to go to this link and click the blue registration button. You will be asked to set up your own account with the usual information, but make sure to put in our Sundance registration ID, 01621528 before entering everything else in and clicking continue. If you did everything right, you should be able to login to your account and read this awesome collection of easy reading books. Read on and enjoy!
eGO
eGO is the Connecticut State Library’s statewide library eBook platform. Gain access to digital resources for all ages, including eBooks and eAudiobooks.
Choose from more than 25,000 eBooks and eAudiobooks on SimplyE, the Connecticut State Library’s free app, with any Connecticut library card.
For most items in the collection:
- 3 week loan period
- Up to 3 checkouts and 5 holds at a time
Get the SimplyE app
Gather Around, it’s time to hear a story!
Hello Everyone! We invite you and your children to gather around and listen as Kari Ann shares story.
Presented by the Farmington Valley Podcast Network.
Why the beetle has a gold coat
Mother Frog and her 12 children
King Midas and the Golden Touch
Why Cats and Dogs are not the Best of Friends
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
Scavenger Hunts and BINGO Boards!
At Home Scavenger Hunts
Colors of the Rainbow Scavenger Hunt
Flowers of the Season Scavenger Hunt
Driving Tours Scavenger Hunts
Let’s Go for a Drive and See the Statues!
Let’s Go for a Drive and See Avon!
Let’s Go for a Drive and See the Road Signs!
Bingo Boards
Gather around, it’s time for a story!
We are happy to bring you a new podcast produced by the Farmington Valley Podcast Network, we invite you and your children to follow along or practice listening skills as Kari Ann reads “The Bird with Golden Feathers: a story from South Africa,” by Barbara Baumgartner. Click here to listen to the story.
This story is from Good As Gold: stories of values from around the world / Barbara Baumgartner, Illustrated by Amanda Hall. London: DK, c1998.
Kids: learn from home with AbdoZOOM
Kids: learn from home!
Access a world of information with your AFPL library card!
View all of our educational web apps just for kids right here.
Young readers will explore 160 pages of fascinating and interactive animal content in depth!
With 160 compelling biographies to choose from, young readers will learn about the lives of important people and their contributions.
Young readers can explore more than 100 topics through the lens of how they relate to Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math.
Imagine: Avon tween & teen magazine
See your work in print in AFPL’s art and literary magazine for tweens and teens! Accepting submissions from grades 5-12.
Flash fiction stories may be up to 1000 words.
Art, poetry, games, and more must be 1 page or under.
28 creators will be featured!
Submissions are open to participants in the Teen Writing Block, TRU, TAB, Tween Art, the Creative Circle, the Book-ish Club, and Open Art Studio.
Sign-up by April 13 for priority placement!
Submissions accepting now through April 20
TAB members only!
Volunteer to be a junior editor! Work with library staff to submit your work and determine the magazine’s look and feel! Work with other creators to help them tell their story! Apply here.
A to Z Maps Online
The world’s most comprehensive collection of downloadable maps including modern maps, historical maps, maps of exploration, geography games and video guides. Available on library computers, or at home from the library’s website for Avon cardholders.