Early Learning

Participate in reading challenges, track your reading, write book reviews, and more. Create a Beanstack account for yourself and/or children and keep using it even in between official FVRLibraries challenges! Choose any or all of these options:

• Add your reading doorways/preferences.
• Request weekly recommendations based on your doorways.
• Share an account with family, teachers, and friends to grant access to recommendations, reading log, and badges. Keep them up-to-date or give them the opportunity to collaborate.
• View pages in other languages (like español, Русский, or 中文) by using the Google Select Language drop-down in the lower right corner of the page.

Young Children offers growing patrons a dynamic and engaging way to explore the world around them. Covering a wide range of topics, this trusted resource brings learning to life
with content on animals, science, nature, history, inspiring people, geography, civics, and culture—all carefully curated with age-appropriate topics and language for emerging readers. With rich visuals, read-aloud features, easy-to-understand explanations, and content designed to spark curiosity, Britannica Library: Young Children helps build foundational knowledge and encourages kids to ask questions, make connections, and develop a lifelong love of learning.

Peruse animated, talking picture books, early chapter books, puzzles, and resources for kids and families in TumbleBooks. Includes a limited number of books in French, Spanish, and other languages.

Read, play, watch, and do! Activities for pre-readers and beginning readers.