Ebooks for Kids

Ebooks aren’t just for grownups.  Today’s kids, who have grown up with ipads in their cribs, can take advantage of  the availabiity of free ebooks, eaudio books, & animated books.  Lake Forest Library offers a substantial collection of digital material and streaming video for the juvenile reader.  My Media Mall,  one of our two downloadable book services, features  over 2000 children's items. Browsing is easy with their KidsCollection eReading Room.   Want to enter The Busy World of Richard Scarry?  Or have some humorous adventures with Paddington Bear? 

 “Wonder” if the fantastic book Wonder is available as an ebook? Here it is in our catalog:

                                                                Select the downloadable ebook

  Or you can browse/search directly in the My Media Mall . 

                                            Click on Downloads

 We also offer a select group of juvenile ebooks through 3M  - currently almost 700 titles and growing.  Exclusively through 3M is  The Julian Chapter: a Wonder Story   telling the story from Auggie’s classmate’s point of view. 
Fans of the LEGEND  dystopian series can find a 2 new stories in Life Before Legend  only in My Media Mall.  

In addition to our library sources, try these free resources for a variety of reading material.  The Chicago History Museum’s Great Chicago Stories offers a small collection of professionally written children’s fiction bringing Chicago history to life.

If you are looking for a classic  like Tom Sawyer, many are in the public domain and/or  have been digitized by  Project Gutenberg .  Among their Book categories are several with classic and vintage children's books such as The Bobbsey Twins or Tom Swift, authors such as Louisa May Alcott and L. Frank Baum.  Browse these for some nostalgia:   

Children’s Book Series  

Children’s Literature Bookshelf  
These books can be read online or saved in cloud storage such as Google Drive, Dropbox & icloud.

Don't forget magazines.  Hightlights Magazine for Kids has a free online version with animated stories, poetry, puzzles, science experiments and comics with old favorites like Goofus & Gallant and the Timbertoes.