Pierce County Library System
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Child Care Providers

Child Care Centers

A free program in which the library delivers books to your Child Care Center!  Each month, a container filled with 30 books is delivered to your center, containing books for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and beginning readers.

Home Child Cares

A free program in which every other month the library delivers a bag of 30 books to the library nearest you. The bags contain a variety of books and music for all ages.

Free STARS Trainings

STARS is Washington’s State Training And Registry System for child care providers. The Library System offers many different training workshops for STARS credit. Many of these trainings can be done at your site.

A newsletter packed with ideas for books to read, rhymes to chant, poems to share and activities that promote the 6 skills of Early Literacy. Don't forget to visit the Early Learning Newsletter archives page!

January - Blocks and Building February - Author Donald Crews March - Dr. Seuss April - Nursery Rhymes and Stars May - Animals June

July August September October November December

100 Books Every Child Should Hear Before Kindergarten
Board Books
Music and Songs as Books
Nursery Rhymes, Mother Goose, Poetry Books

Elementary Learning Fun for the Entire Learning Family!

Your Early Literacy Station dispenses a special child-safe browser that can be installed on any internet-connected Windows PC.

Click here for more information on the ELF™ Child-Safe Browser.

For more information about Child Care resources, please contact:

Susan Anderson-Newham, Early Learning Supervising Librarian
253-548-3424
susana@piercecountylibrary.org

Alison Pascone, Early Learning Librarian
253-548-3417
apascone@piercecountylibrary.org