Children

Location & Contact

Welles-Turner
Memorial Library

2407 Main Street
Glastonbury, CT 06033

Main
Lending
Reference
Children

860-652-7719
860-652-7719
860-652-7720
860-652-7718


Hours

Mon, Tue, & Thu 9 am - 9 pm
Wed 12 pm - 9 pm
Fri & Sat 9 am - 5 pm
Sun 1 pm - 5 pm

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Online Resources

Databases

Database subscriptions available to Welles-Turner Library cardholders only and may require your library card number to access.

Creativebug. Creativebug.com has more than 1,000 award-winning art and craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists. For projects for kids, hover over the "Classes" heading, and scroll over to "Kids" to see a variety of classes for different age groups!
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Educate Station. The Educate Station team is committed to inspiring joyful learning and supporting kids, teachers, and parents. Their content is created by a team of experienced and passionate educators from across the United States. Their educators bring vast subject-matter expertise, teaching credentials, and many years of experience as classroom teachers and curriculum developers. Through the content they create, they aim to provide ready-to-use, hands-on activities for kids to do at home or at school.

NoveList K-8 PLUS. NoveList has been helping readers find their next favorite book for more than 25 years and continues to develop innovative solutions for connecting readers, books, and libraries. By helping libraries help readers, NoveList empowers libraries to engage and inspire their communities.

researchIt CT. Articles from magazines, journals, news wire services; newspapers, including Hartford Courant, New York Times; health and science, including consumer and alternative health; business, including company information, Wall Street Journal; history and genealogy, including HeritageQuest; Informe!, articles in Spanish.

Homework Help Links

Recommended Parenting Sites

These sites present information on the importance of reading early and often to little ones:

Try this learning to read website with your beginning reader:

  • Starfall is a free public service to help teach children to read using phonics.

The following are a sampling of sites with special interest to parents:

  • Birth to Three is Connecticut’s website for parents of children who have concerns about how a child sees, talks, hears, moves, eats or plays.
  • LD Online is a website on learning disabilities, learning disorders and differences.
  • HealthyChildren.org is a parenting website with information on children’s physical, mental and social health and specific guidance on a multitude of parenting issues. It is backed by 60,000 pediatricians.

Kids Internet Safety

  • For information about our Public Computer Use Policy, click here.
  • Ikeepsafe.org is an interactive website for kids and grownups.
  • Netsmartz.org explores a variety of internet safety topics for parents.