First Five Years

First to Five Years

Sesame Street eBooks for Kids!
Is your child/grandchild a fan of Sesame Street? Why not try one of our new Sesame Street eBooks for kids! We have all your favorites: Elmo, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, and more! Just click here and enter your Farmingdale Public Library Card number to get started.

Programs for You and Your Little One

Mini Movers
Thursdays, May 10, 17, 24, 31, June 7, 14 at 10:00am
Registration Date: 5/3
1-3 years and an adult
You’re child will be singing, playing instruments, and dancing to the music in this program! Preference given to UFSD #22 residents. Proof of age required.

Babytime
Mondays, May 14, 21, June 4, 11 at 9:15am
Registration Date: 5/3
0-12 months and an adult
Come to this special storytime for you and your little one! Preference given to UFSD #22 residents. Proof of age required.

Stroller Striders
Mondays, May 14, 21, June 4, 11 at 10:00am
Registration Date: 5/7
13 months - 4 years and an adult
An instructor from the Stroller Striders program will be here to lead you in this special exercise program for you and your little one. Child must be able to sit in a stroller for this program. Preference given to UFSD #22 residents. Proof of age required.

Stay and Play
Wednesdays, May 16, 23, 30,
June 6 at 10:30am
Registration Date: 5/3
1-3 years and an adult
Join us each morning for an hour of playtime at the library. Preference given to UFSD #22 residents. Proof of age required.

TumbleBook Library contains online storybooks for children to listen and read-along to. Choose from a large selection of titles, puzzles, games.

Nassau Digital Doorway and your library are now offering Disney eBooks! We have all your favorite Disney characters from Aladdin to the Wizards of Waverly Place! To see a complete listing of available Disney eBooks click here.

You can download an eBook to your home computer, compatible MP3 Player, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, iPod, iPad, Sony Reader, NOOK, NOOKcolor, and Kobo eReader, using your home computer. You will need a Farmingdale Public Library Card to use this service.

Stop by the Youth Services Department the next time your in the library and check out one of these exciting and educational backpacks!

Colors and Shapes, Dinosaurs, Farm, Fire Engines, Human Body, Insects and Spiders, New Sibling, Numeration, Time, Teddy Bear, and Transportation.

With over forty traditional nursery rhymes, personally chosen by the illustrator and laid out in colour-drenched double spreads. this is a beautiful, painterly collection of rhymes that has the makings of a classic.

Chirchir just wants to make herself useful like all her other family members. But she drops Mama's water bucket, spills Kogo's tea, and sends Baba's potatoes tumbling down the hill. Isn't there something that Chirchir does best? Set in the rolling hills of rural Kenya, this is a wise and lyrical story about belonging from Kelly Cunnane, the author of the Ezra Jack Keats Award winner For You Are a Kenyan Child, accompanied by Jude Daly's beautiful folk art-style illustrations.

Davy the sheep wishes he had time alone with his parents, as he did before his 12 brothers came along and started imitating his every move, but when his wish comes true, Davy misses playing with the youngsters.

A preschool classroom of 25 cranky kids and one beleaguered teacher introduces an edgy alphabet that traces the fallout of an act of naughtiness before rebounding through acts of kindness that culminate in an apology.

Full-color photographs illustrate the sleeping habits of more than 20 different animals, including koalas and leopards that sleep in trees, tortoises that prefer warm sandy beaches and bats that pull their wings around them like bedspreads.