Celebrate National Library Week with the Lackawanna County Children's Library Coloring Contest! Break out your best crayons and show your library love with this year's coloring contest.  We have fun Peppa Pig, Pigeon and the Bus Driver, Minion and Minecraft...

  We're learning the alphabet at story time at the Nancy Kay Holmes Branch Library and this time we learned the letter "S". During story time we read about crazy squirrels and other "S" things. After story time we took...

        Bring along your good luck charms! During this hour of fun, we’ll be playing back-to-back rounds of bingo.     Winners get to select a book from the prize cart. How many book characters will you recognize? For Families Sunday, April 19, 2015...

Experience the excitement and fun of science! Kids will create Oobleck, Squishy Circuits, and Mystery Markers with the University of Scranton’s Scranton Neuroscience Society & Health Professions Organization. The program will he held in the library lobby set up in...

Number One Sam is the story of Sam who is always number one--number one in speed, in turns and in finishing races.  He was number one until one day when his best friend, Maggie finished first.  Before the next race...

Last time at Family Place, children read stories about Animals. We learned an animal for every letter in the alphabet! After story time, we made an alligator craft. Alligators have lots of teeth - watch out!

Children at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library celebrated their achievements for the Winter Reading Club with a celebration. During this event, we had a Dr. Seuss Scavenger Hunt and for a special snack we had glazed doughnuts! We really had...

Children at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library are getting ready for preschool! During Lil' Library Learners, we do all kinds of hands-on learning activities on our own to get ready. This time we used our egg shakers and listened to...

One Book, Every Young Child Program Goal: To increase awareness of the importance of reading and engaging in stories among adults with preschoolers in their lives. The Lackawanna County Children's Library invites you to meet Greg Pizzoli, author of  the...

The Lackawanna County Children's Library was the recipient of a grant of building blocks and supplemental materials from the Commonwealth Libraries. Libraries have been at the forefront of early education and inspiring young minds. The Block Party program provides children, parents,...