Kids
Kids Spotlight
Color Our World with EPL's Summer Reading Program!
Keep Evanston's young minds active and engaged while school is out by participating in this annual program!
Kids LitMatch
Need help selecting your child's next read? Let us help! Fill out the LitMatch for kids and let our staff find the perfect book.
Hearts of Readers, part of a series
Misericordia day residents bring their reading skills to Evanston Public Library for this half-an-hour all-abilities storytime!
Anytime Activities for Kids
Challenge your young ones in a scavenger hunt, attempt to solve the mystery of the guessing jar or craft together. Themes change each month!
STEM Explorers: Light
Aug 6th | 1:00pm - 2:00pm
In this STEM program for kids in grades K-2 with a parent, try some experiments, interact with light in a new way, and make a craft!
Upcoming Events
Game On! Team Table Top Game Design Challenge
Aug 11th | 3:30pm - 5:00pm
During this 5-day program, 4 teams of 4th & 5th graders will work together to create 1 table top game and then showcase it on the last day!
Online Resources for Kids
Hoopla Kids Mode
Hoopla Kids Mode offers adults and their children kid-friendly digital content from eBooks, eAudiobooks to movies, TV shows, and music.
Comics Plus Children's Library
Comics Plus lets you read tons of children's graphic novels, comics, and manga anytime!
TumbleBooks
TumbleBooks offers animated eBooks for kids, with picture books, chapter books, and educational titles to make learning fun.
LOTE4Kids: Children's Picture Books
LOTE4Kids is an online platform that offers multilingual storybooks for children in over 90 languages!
Hoopla Kids Mode
Hoopla Kids Mode offers adults and their children kid-friendly digital content from eBooks, eAudiobooks to movies, TV shows, and music.
Comics Plus Children's Library
Comics Plus lets you read tons of children's graphic novels, comics, and manga anytime!
TumbleBooks
TumbleBooks offers animated eBooks for kids, with picture books, chapter books, and educational titles to make learning fun.
LOTE4Kids: Children's Picture Books
LOTE4Kids is an online platform that offers multilingual storybooks for children in over 90 languages!
Staff Picks
Disability Pride, Ages 8-12
From neurodivergent thinkers, to wheelchair users, kids with chronic illnesses and more, these stories are full of a whole lot of pride.
Disability Pride, Ages 0-8
Stories which celebrate kids with various visible & invisible disabilities!
Roll Call!: Summer Camp Chapter Books
This list of children's titles set at summer camp offers varied accounts of these muggy minutes, hours and days away from home.
Space Booklist
In celebration of National Moon and Space Exploration Day on July 20th, check out these out of this world titles!
Disability Pride, Ages 8-12
From neurodivergent thinkers, to wheelchair users, kids with chronic illnesses and more, these stories are full of a whole lot of pride.
Disability Pride, Ages 0-8
Stories which celebrate kids with various visible & invisible disabilities!
Roll Call!: Summer Camp Chapter Books
This list of children's titles set at summer camp offers varied accounts of these muggy minutes, hours and days away from home.
Space Booklist
In celebration of National Moon and Space Exploration Day on July 20th, check out these out of this world titles!