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“You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you must love your children." ~ Barbara Bush
“You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you must love your children." ~ Barbara Bush
Reading is the cornerstone of education. Reading to and with your child is the most important thing a parent can do for their child. Reading aids in a child's brain development and offers them a window to the world. Reading fires the imagination and creativity in children, helping them learn new vocabulary, concepts, and feelings while providing them with the tools to become better students. Reading helps children develop listening skills and increases their writing abilities and gives them the understanding of reading for pleasure. In essence, reading is the key to learning and knowledge. Libraries provide the doors for these keys to unlock imagination, creativity, and innovation. It is our hope that libraries, books, and reading will always be a part of a child's life.
Explore "Comics Plus" with the Boothbay Region Memorial Library
Explore "Comics Plus" with the Boothbay Region Memorial Library
ComicsPlus offers unlimited, free access to a huge collection of comics and graphic novels. Search through thousands of titles in genres like mystery, memoir, Manga and more!
To login from a computer, visit the ComicsPlus website and search for Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library. Enter your 14-digit library card number to access your account and start reading.
Borrow e-books and e-audiobooks through the Maine InfoNet Download Library, powered by cloudLibrary. We partner with BRML for access to the CloudLibrary. Just log in with your BRML card number:
Do you love listening to Audio Books?
Do you love listening to Audio Books?
Visit Hoopla where you can stream movies, music, audiobooks, e-books, graphic novels, and comics. Stream live, or download to the app to enjoy offline.
Access Hoopla again using your BRML card number. Don't have a library card? Click HERE and follow the directions for ordering your library card.
More Free Resources
More Free Resources
Storynory features a collection of original, fairy tale, and classic children’s audio stories. Students can follow along with the story as it is read to them, as the text is also included on the site. There are also some great features available that give you the option of downloading the audio to your computer, listening to “catch phrase” explanations, translating text into different languages (especially helpful for your ELL students!), and more.
Storynory features a collection of original, fairy tale, and classic children’s audio stories. Students can follow along with the story as it is read to them, as the text is also included on the site. There are also some great features available that give you the option of downloading the audio to your computer, listening to “catch phrase” explanations, translating text into different languages (especially helpful for your ELL students!), and more.
After registering for a free account, you have access to over 250 children’s audio books that can be used in the classroom. The book text is not part of the presentation, so students will not be able to follow along as it is read to them.
Youtube link that reads stories while you follow along with highlighted text. Our animated read aloud video is a great resource for parents, teachers, and anyone looking to share the joy of reading with young children. It's perfect for storytime or as a supplement to classroom lessons. With the added feature of highlighted text, it's a great tool for young readers to follow along and practice their reading skills.
Developed by The Screen Actors Guild Foundation, Storyline Online features accomplished actors and actresses reading some of their favorite children’s books. Each story comes with a free Activity Guide and can be viewed on YouTube or SchoolTube. Rainbow Fish, Wilfrid Gordon Macdonald Partridge, and To Be a Drum are just a few of the books available.
Similar to Storyline Online, Read to Me features popular children’s books being read by famous performers. There are activity guides with hands-on ideas, discussion questions, and lesson plans that can easily be adapted to the Common Core State Standards. Entirely free, the site is colorful and engaging.
National Geographic Young Explorers is a magazine designed specifically for kindergarten and first grade students. Children can listen to the magazine being read to them as they follow along with the highlighted text. It is a great way to bring interesting non-fiction stories into reading center time.
Children can listen to short stories read aloud to them as they follow along with the highlighted text. ABCya! has a variety of educational games in addition to the featured stories. Free resources and materials are available for grades K through 5.
Reading Rockets is a national public media literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.
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