Program Planning Resources

Youth Services offers a collection of resources for developing good quality children’s library programming. These resources are only available to CKLS member libraries. All Youth Services materials are in the Pathfinder Central catalog for your viewing, but MUST be ordered using the Youth Services Materials Request Form. Any Youth Services holds placed through Pathfinder Central will not be honored.

Librarian’s Project Resources

Educational resources printed in book and periodical format.

Bulletin Boards/Displays
Classroom Parties
Crafts
Early Childhood Activities
Fingerplays/Songs/Poems
Folk Tales/Fairy Tales
Nursery Rhymes/Mother Goose/Poems
Stories
Games/Puzzles/Magic
Patterns
Puppets/Plays/Skits
Seasonal
Holiday
Special Topics

Storytelling Materials

Resources to dramatize stories for storytime and after school programs.

Object Stories
Flannelboard Stories/Shapes
Flannelboard Supplemental Materials
Flip Cards
Roll Stories
Plays
Storytelling Costumes/Props
Oversized Books

Puppet Resources

A collection of hand puppets, finger puppets, full size puppets, stuffed toys, and face masks on sticks.

Hand Puppet, Plush
Hand Puppets, Felt/Fabric
Hand Puppet, Sesame Street
Stuffed Puppet
Stuffed Toy
Show Me/Tell Me Dolls
Finger Puppet
Hand Puppet, Large Plush
Fairy/Folk Tale Sets
Holiday/Seasonal Sets
People/Family
Felt/Mask/Paper/Stick
Summer Library Program Sets

Video/DVD Resources

These resources have public performance rights, unless noted.

Early Childhood: Counting, learning the alphabet and understanding words and their definitions are among important concepts explored in these stories.

Fairytales/Folktales/Heroes/Legends: Fairytales and folktales have been told for generations and retain their relevance today with humorous and astute insights into human nature.

Holidays: These dvds about holidays will enhance children’s enjoyment and understanding of special times of the year.

Seasons: These dvds about seasons will enhance children’s enjoyment and understanding of special times of the year. In several the seasonal setting is influential in shaping the story’s theme.

Storytime: Storytime dvds are stories that will entertain and delight children, as well as adults. Many of these are old favorites.

Theme Libraries: Theme Libraries are a series of dvds on these specific topics.

Animals
The Arts
Circus
Death/Separation
Dinosaurs
Environment/Ecology
Health/Safety
Intergenerational
Multicultural
Recycling
Social Issues
Space/Flight
The Wizard of Oz

DVD Collections

These collections have public performance rights, unless noted.

Author/Illustrator
Fairytales/Folktales/Heroes/Legends
Holiday
Season
Storytime

Miscellaneous Resources

Includes display materials, games and craft supplies.

Bulletin Boards/Posters
Creative Corners for Bulletin Boards
Display Materials/Mobiles
Games
Supplies

Special Collections

A collection of specialized storybooks that can be used for library programming.

American Folk Tales
Arts
Birthday
Death and Dying
Dinosaurs
Fables/Fairytales/Folklore/Legends
Fables/Fairytales/Folklore/Legends Collection
Family
History/Travel
Mother Goose/Nursery Rhymes
Native American
Ocean/Sea
Poetry
Seasonal/Holiday
Storytime