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Read Thumper's Autumn Adventure - Thumper and his sisters discover everything from falling leaves to forest friends getting ready to hibernate as they hop through the forest on a crisp autumn day. Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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"It can be fun to be scared, as many of us will recall from Halloweens past. But if we think back, we’ll probably agree that there were two things that made it possible for that scariness to be fun. First, that we knew we were safe because someone we loved was nearby. Second, we knew that whatever was scaring us was only pretend.” ~Fred Rogers
Smart words from Mr. Rogers! Many small children don't find Halloween fun at all!...the masks, the jumping out surprises and all the ghosts & vampires & scary looking pumpkins. Below are several stories that can help kids turn their Halloween fears into Halloween fun. If Arthur & Scaredy Squirrel can do it, so can your child! Also consider a trip to The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Haunted House but go during lights ON hours. The volunteers go out of their way to be extra friendly as your child walks through.
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Read Scaredy Squirrels Prepares for Halloween - Scaredy Squirrel puts together a collection of helpful safety tips and step-by-step instructions to guide you through common Halloween obstacles such as carnivorous plants, haunted houses and encountering the infamous Frankenstein. |
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Read Boo Bunny - Two small bunnies face their fears while trick-or-treating on Halloween night. |
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Read Go Away Big Green Monster - A scary green monster begins to disappear, piece by piece and page by page, in a die-cut picture book that lets youngsters take control of the monsters in their lives. |
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Read Arthur’s Halloween - Arthur finds everything about Halloween scary, including his little sister's costume, his morning snack, and the big house on the corner. |
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Read Never Say Boo - When Gordon, a ghost, moves to a new school, everyone is afraid of him until they learn that he is not as scary as they thought he was. |
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Read Georgie - Georgie the friendly ghost is happy living with the Whittakers, but then things change and he decides to find a new place to haunt. |
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Read One Wish for Winifred Witch - In this rhyming story, little Winifred Witch is excited about enjoying Halloween night with the big witches, but she has one small problem--she is afraid of the dark. Her secret wish is never to be scared of the dark again. She asks her Aunt Broomhilda, who owns a shop of spells, to help. When magic fails, Broomhilda shows her another solution to her fears. |
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Read Vunce Upon a Time - A fearful, young vampire, who prefers candy to blood, bravely ventures into the human world on Halloween night to satisfy his sweet too. |
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Read Humbug Witch - A little girl tries unsuccessfully to do all the tricks of a witch. |
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The Read Right Now! books below you can read online, right now, with no waiting! Also don't miss the Early Readers Club - your child can pick up a free book at participating IndyPL branches from Sep. - May each year until age six. Really! Books to Keep! Details.
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Going to the pumpkin patch or orchard is often a favorite Halloween activity for small children. Here are some Sesame Street videos to introduce visiting a pumpkin patch and carving a jack 'o lantern. Don't miss the Read Right Now! Pumpkin Books - free eBooks with your IndyPL Library Card, no waiting! The stories feature Pooh, Donald Duck and The Little Einsteins. More eBooks are available at the bottom of the page...but you might have to wait in line for these.
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Read How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow? - Every year, giant pumpkin contests take place at fairs across the country—the 2012 record-holder weighed over a ton! The latest craze is to carve the most enormous pumpkins into racing boats. But what’s next? Why not think really big? Award-winning artist Wendell Minor does just that as he imagines larger-than-life pumpkins decorating some of America’s favorite places—as immense as the Capitol dome, Mount Rushmore, the Brooklyn Bridge, even the Grand Canyon! This celebration of famous landmarks and landscapes plays with concepts of size and scale and is full of fun facts. |
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Read A Pumpkin for Pooh - What will Winnie the Pooh and Piglet do with their perfect pumpkin? Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Read Farmer Donald's Pumpkin Patch - When Donald Duck hears about a pumpkin growing contest, he decides to become a farmer and grow the biggest pumpkin ever! But Donald soon discovers that growing a garden isn't as easy as he thought. With help from the team and a lot of hard work, Farmer Donald's garden grows. But will his pumpkin win the grand prize? Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Read Pooh's Halloween Pumpkin - Winnie the Pooh plants some pumpkin seeds. He waits and eats and eats and waits…but will he have a pumpkin by Halloween? Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Read The Pumpkin Patch Puzzle - Quincy is excited about celebrating his favorite holiday, but something just isn't right in the clubhouse. Can you help Quincy find a pumpkin for his party? Hop on board and help the Little Einsteins with their mission to find out why they are are no pumpkins in the pumpkin patch! Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Questions about the Early Readers Club can be directed to Abby Brown at abrown@indypl.org or 317 275-4096.
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You can also read FREE eBooks and listen to FREE online stories with your early reader....right now!...No waiting!
Reading Milestones:
Alphabet: Max's ABC & Elmo's ABC
Colors: Pinkalicious & Tangled: Kingdom of Color
Counting: Skippyjon Jones 1,2,3, Counting Peas & Thumper Counts to 10
Opposites: Skippyjon Jones Up & Down
Rhyming: Red Truck
Shapes: Skippyjon Jones Shapes Up & The Story of Shapes
Behavior & Skill Milestones:
Babysitters: Roo's New Babysitter
Bad Day: Alexander & the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day & Where the Wild Things Are
Bathtime: Time to Come Clean
Bedtime: Llama Llama Red Pajama
Dentist: Doctor DeSoto & Doctor Maisy
Doctor: Doctor Maisy, Doctor Daisy MD & Pooh Goes to the Doctor
Dressing: Max's Dragon Shirt & My Dress Up Box
First Day of School: Manny Goes to Preschool, Time for School Pooh & More
Helping: The Little Red Hen & Baby Max Cleans Up
Individuality: Not Your Typical Dragon & Stellaluna
Manners: Polite as a Princess & Please and Thank You
Missing Mommy: Llama Llama Misses Mama & Owl Babies
Night Fright: There's an Alligator Under My Bed & The Thing Under the Bed
Sharing: Somebody Won't Share & The Lopart's Learn to Share
Sick: Madeline
Telling the Truth: Doug Dennis and the Flyaway Fib & Henry's Amazing Imagination
Time: Telling Time
Favorite Subjects:
Babies: All of Baby Nose to Toes & Baby Signs
Baseball: Take Me Out to the Ball Game & Baseball ABC
Camp: Camping Day & Arthur Goes to Camp
Cats: Millions of Cats, Axle the Freeway Cat & Disney's Marie
Dinosaurs: Let's Look Dinosaurs & Skippyjon Jones and the Big Bones
Dogs: Clifford the Big Red Dog & Harry the Dirty Dog
Dogs: Martha Stories
Ducks: Make Way for Ducklings & The Ugly Duckling
Fairy Tales: Rapunzel & Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
Farm: Maisy's Morning on the Farm & See How They Grow
Money: Bunny Money
Music: Zin Zin Zin a Violin
Nature: Blueberries for Sal & Between the Lions Nature Stories
Ocean: Disney Ocean Rescue
The Park: Rusty and Stretch a Day at the Park & In the Park
Pirates: Pooh's Pirate Adventure
Robots: Robomop & Ruby Scores a Goal!
Sharks: Shark Attack & Surprising Sharks
Space: Mickey & His Spaceship & The Moon and His Cap
Sports: The Big Game & The Berenstain Bears Soccer Star
Trains: The Polar Express
Trucks: Trucks and Diggers, Smash Crash & Tonka Chuck and Friends
Vacation: Larry Gets Lost, Froggy Goes to Hawaii and Family Vacation
Wild Animals: Watch Me Grow - Ape
Wishing: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble & Little Star's Wish
Holidays & Seasons
Halloween: H is for Haunted House, Pooh's Happy Halloween, Sweet & Spooky Halloween & Mater and the Ghost Light
Pumpkins: A Pumpkin for Pooh, Farmer Duck's Pumpkin Patch & Pooh's Halloween Pumpkin
Tips for Reading the Free Online Books:
- iPad users - Many of these eBooks and games require Adobe Flash. Adobe Flash is not supported on iOS devices, including the iPad and iPad 2. If you want to view these eBooks & games on an iPad you will need an app web browser that does support Flash. Some of these browsers are Puffin, Skyfire, Photon, iSwifter & Cloud Browse. They are very inexpensive - from 2.99 to 7.99.
- WeGiveBooks eBooks - To view these books set up a Free Username & Password.
- Disney Free Downloadables - You will need your IndyPL Library Card and Password to Login. If you don't live in Indianapolis - check with your library, they may have the Disney Collection too!
- Find even more free online reading at “More Free Digital Books”.
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The Read Right Now! books below you can read online, right now, with no waiting! Also don't miss the Early Readers Club - your child can pick up a free book at participating IndyPL branches from Sep. - May each year until age six. Really! Books to Keep! Details.
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Here are some great stories and activities to make Halloween fun. Read Right Now! Free Online eBooks with no waiting! For the Disney Digital Books you will just need your IndyPL Library Card. For those of you struggling with a child who is frightened about Halloween traditions try IndyPL Ready to Read: Scarefree Halloween. There are several good stories that will help calm spooky fears so the fun can take over!
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Read Ollie's Halloween - While Gossie, Gertie, Peedie, and BooBoo are tricking and treating, Ollie is thinking about how sharing is better than scaring. |
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Read H is for Haunted House - Little ones will love learning about Halloween in this alphabet book. Rhyming couplets that flow through the alphabet help kids celebrate everything from Ghosts to Mummies to Zombies. |
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Read Narvelous Monsters - Many marvelous monsters show off their special skills in a wacky talent show! The silly (not scary!) monsters and their tongue-twisting talents will have kids and their parents laughing through each act! |
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Read Goodnight Goon - A beloved classic gets a kind-hearted send up in this utterly monsterized parody; energetic art and a hilarious text will have kids begging to read this again and again. |
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Read Halloween - This layered board book is full of Halloween surprises! From the front, all kinds of ghouls and treats can be seen sticking out of the grinning jack-o'-lantern. Then, page by page, each object is revealed along with its sometimes scary, sometimes silly companions. Boo! |
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Read Pooh's Happy Halloween - Watch out for the heffalumps! Winnie the Pooh and Piglet get in the Halloween spirit with a fun night of trick-or-treating. Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Read Sweet & Spooky Halloween - Carve pumpkins, wear silly costumes, and tell creepy stories with the Disney Princesses as they celebrate everything sweet and spooky about Halloween! Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Read Phineas and Ferb Thrill-o-Rama - The days and nights get spooky when Phineas and Ferb create a haunted house. Their friend Isabella has an extreme case of hiccups, and the boys plan to scare them out of her. What better way than a creepy house that's full of shocking surprises and thrilling twists and turns? Plus, Phineas and Ferb search for a mummy in an old theater showing monster movies. Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Read Mater & the Ghost Light - Mater likes to play pranks on his friends in Radiator Springs, until they play a joke on him. Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Read Pooh's Halloween Parade - It's Halloween, and Pooh and his friends are all dressed-up and ready for their annual parade. Will there be tricks, or treats? Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Read Little Einstein's Halloween Surprise - It's Halloween, and the Little Einsteins are trick-or-treating at some of the most beautiful palaces and castles in Europe! While on a mission to fill up their giant goodie bag with treats and costumes for the big Halloween party, the team gets spooked--could that be ghosts following them? Find out in this frighteningly good adventure! Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Read Phineas and Ferb Haunted Hayride - It's Halloween night, and Phineas and Ferb have completely transformed their backyard into a giant corn maze. They've even built a wagon to take all of their friends on a haunted hayride! But little do they know that the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz has created a giant monster to destroy their town. And when the monster heads for Phineas and Ferb's house, will Perry the Platypus--aka Agent P--be able to save the day? Or will this Halloween be a total fright night? Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. |
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Today, September 8, 2013, is International Literacy Day. The celebration will continue through the month of September. Follow it on Twitter at @IRAToday. Kicking off the fun is "Cloudy 
With a Chance of Meatballs." The Town of Chewandswallow is very much like any other tiny town, except for its weather. It never rains rain and it never snows snow and it never blows just wind. It rains things like soup and juice. It snows things like mashed potatoes and popcorn. And sometimes the wind blows in storms of hamburgers. Life for the townspeople of Chewandswallow is delicious! Delicious, that is, until the weather takes a sudden turn for the worse in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. The town is suddenly plagued by damaging floods and storms of huge food, and the people fear for their lives. Something has to be done -- and in a hurry! Find out what happens when something is done in Pickles to Pittsburgh, where siblings Kate and Henry discover that the townspeople of Chewandswallow have big, BIG plans in place.
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I spy on the farm a really, really close-up picture of an animal's body. With the animal sound clue to go with it kids can guess the I Spy riddles. Need more help? Actually look through the spy hole to "peek" at the animal on the next page. A fun hands on book to practice animal names, animal sounds guessing from word and picture clues.
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Read Maisy's Morning on the Farm - Morning is a busy time on Maisy's farm. There are chickens and pigs to feed, and the cow to milk. Moo! After the chores are finished, there's just one more thing to do--eat a yummy breakfast.Try these activities at home: |
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Read Otis - When a big new yellow tractor arrives, Otis the friendly little tractor is cast away behind the barn, but when trouble occurs Otis is the only one who can help. Try these activities at home:Online Game: John Deere Tractors Kids Page |
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Read See How They Grow: Lambs - Follow an adorable pony on its path from newborn to adult in this fun and informative picture book. See How They Grow introduces the fascinating world of animals and how they develop, step-by-step.Read More! See How They Grow:
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Listen to All Pigs are Beautiful - Whimsical ull-color illustrations enhance a close-up look at pigs, celebrating them in all their glory as they build nests, roll in mud, and have their backs scratched. |
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The Read Right Now! books below you can read online, right now, with no waiting! Also don't miss the Early Readers Club - your child can pick up a free book at participating IndyPL branches from Sep. - May each year until age six. Really! Books to Keep! Details.
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Read Doctor Maisy - It's Doctor Maisy and Nurse Tallulah, and they're playing hospital. Poor Panda is sick, but Maisy takes good care of him. Then it's Maisy's turn to need the help--and Nurse Tallulah comes to the rescue! Try these activities at home: |
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Read Visiting the Doctor - Watch toddler Sarah as she goes to surgery with her teddy. See how the doctor can tell they are fit and healthy as they get their heart checked through a stethoscope! Try these activities at home: |
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Read Pediatrician - Listen and read along as a pediatrician describes how she takes care of children in this interactive book for early learners. |
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Read Doctor Daisy MD - Mickey and his friends know that if Daisy is going to get her 'pretend-doctor' sticker, she's going to need the help of some special Mouseketools! Join Daisy on her lighthearted quest to become the best pretend doctor in the world! Choose the right Mousketool to help Daisy cure boo-boos, tummy aches, and even a mystery patient. Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. See books below for more downloadable eBooks and Audiobooks. |
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Read Monsters Get Scared of Doctors Too - Want to hear a secret? Monsters get scared of doctors, too. And believe it or not, they are afraid of the same things as human kids. The Monsters show you that it is okay to get scared, and they offer you simple advice on how to deal with your fears. Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. See books below for more downloadable eBooks and Audiobooks. |
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Read Pooh Gets a Checkup - It's time for Winnie the Pooh to get his annual checkup. Visit 'Dr. Owl' with Pooh for this yearly event. Disney Digital Books are ALWAYS AVAILABLE for checkout with your IndyPL Library Card. See books below for more downloadable eBooks and Audiobooks. |
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