Early Learning

These books nurture literacy, empathy, and understanding.

Incorporating interactive features, engaging text, and delightful rhymes, these board books encourage the magic of a shared reading experience that no screen, app, or video can replicate.

Extending Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned initiative to young kids and parents.

Librarians share views on the best way to help kids get ready to read.

The science behind board books, a brief history of the format, and a look at the publishing market. 

Early learning offerings by informed staff and programs extended from the height of the pandemic can help all young children thrive.

In these fun picture books, children can follow along with kids—and animals!—on their quest to obtain a new live-in best friend. These 11 stories range from the first desire for an animal companion to the responsibility of caring for another life. 

Tips for engaging young kids with these works, which can build visual literacy and foster social-emotional skills, plus a video demonstration. 

A team of librarians and academics identifies different kinds of counting books and recommends titles and read-aloud strategies for each.