Pierce County Library System
Information & Imagination

Kids & Teens

Child Care Providers

Child Care Centers

A free program in which the library delivers books to your Child Care Center!  Every 6 weeks, containers filled with developmentally appropriate books are delivered to your center along with information about the library and an Early Learning Newsletter.

Home Child Cares

A free program in which every month the library delivers a bag of 22 books to the library nearest you. The bags contain a variety of books and music for all ages as well as information about the library and an Early Learning Newsletter. 

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 - Red Things February - Winter March - Counting - Census April - National Poetry Month May - Ish

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