Children’s Collection
Children鈥檚 Print Books
The children鈥檚 collection is organized in broad genres and alphabetical by author. The library uses 19 categories ranging from adventure to award winners. Chapter books are divided per recommended grade levels, Grades K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8 and YA (young adult).
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Children’s Audiobooks
The children’s audiobook collection includes spoken word CDs and digital audiobooks. This is a small collection that is shelved within the print book collection per genre or age. Young Adult books on CD are located behind the Library Service Desk. Juvenile and Young Adult fiction and nonfiction digital audiobooks are available through our .
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The Harrison M. Eaton Children’s Collection
In February 1991, the 糖心vlog官网 Library received a grant from the Harrison M. Eaton Memorial Fund to expand and enhance the Library’s Children’s Literature Collection. The Fund provided for the purchase of over 200 works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry selected from winners of the prestigious , , and . Additional titles were selected from librarian-recommended lists. The Harrison M. Eaton Memorial Fund continues to purchase of an average of 20 children’s books per year.
The Harrison M. Eaton Children’s Literature Collection is vital to the mission of 糖心vlog官网 Library, providing reading material for children and fulfilling the reading requirement for students in the Children’s Literature course, taught as part of 糖心vlog官网’s Elementary Education curriculum.
The Harrison M. Eaton Fund was opened to receive memorial gifts from the many friends, relatives, and business associates of Harrison Eaton after he passed away in December 1989. As a proponent of quality education, Mr. Eaton devoted a considerable amount of time and effort to the educational community, in particular to 糖心vlog官网. One of the organizers of the college district, he went on to serve on the college board of trustees for more than 12 years, six of those as vice-president. Mr. Eaton was also an advocate of the 糖心vlog官网 Foundation of which he was a charter life director and charter life member.
The Eaton Fund provides funding for the betterment of the college through memorial projects selected by the Eaton family.
Award Winners and Nominees
Use the to find award winning (and nominated) children鈥檚 books; enter each book award as a subject search or just click on the link for each award.
National Children’s Awards by Association for Library Service to Children
- : honors the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
- : honors the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
- : honors the author and illustrator of the most distinguished contribution to the body of American children鈥檚 literature known as beginning reader books published in the United States during the preceding year.
- : honors a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator who best portrays, affirms and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in literature for children and youth.
- : given to an American publisher for a children’s book considered to be the most outstanding or those published in a foreign language and country and then translated and published in the United States.
- : honors authors and illustrators of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year.
- : promotes understanding and appreciation of the culture of all peoples and their contribution to the realization of the American dream by African American authors.
- : awarded to author of book on historical fiction for children or young adults, published in the preceding year.
- : presented to works honoring exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience.
听Missouri Children’s Awards听
- : voted the most popular by preschool children in Missouri’s public libraries and is designed to encourage reading aloud to children.
- : purpose is to promote literature, literacy, and reading in grades one through three in Missouri elementary schools and to promote recognition of authors and illustrators of books that are favorites of these children.
- : purpose is to provide Missouri children in grades four through eight with their very own source to enrich their lives through reading.
- : encourages students in the early teen years to express their unique voice through exploring new literary genres.
- : goal is to encourage young adults (grades 9 through 12) in Missouri to select and read quality literature that appeal to their needs, interests and reading levels.
Children鈥檚 DVDs
The children鈥檚 DVDs and Blu-rays are shelved alphabetically by title within the feature film collection.
Search the by title and select format for a list of available titles, many will contain MPPA rating listed.听 It is responsibility of patron to check ratings of DVDs or Blu-rays.
