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General Recommendations
IndyPL Staff Picks 2025 - Best of Picture Books
Created on:
Nov 25, 2025
39 items
Our overwhelming favorite vote getter from 2025 is the very sly and funny Don't Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson followed closely by...
1 like
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"My Kid Wants to Read Wicked, What Do I Give Them?"
By:
IndyPL_TaylorVT
IndyPL_TaylorVT
Created on:
Oct 02, 2025
16 items
"Wicked: For Good" is coming to theaters on November 21st, the second part of the movie adaptation of the hit Broadwa...
6 likes
General Recommendations
Cozy Picture Books for Bedtime Snuggles
By:
IndyPL_GlynnisK
IndyPL_GlynnisK
Created on:
Aug 29, 2025
17 items
Charming picture books perfect for settling in for a cozy evening. Picked for stories that feel like a well-loved blankie and a...
1 like
General Recommendations
Picture Books and Juvenile Nonfiction About Mental Health and Illness
By:
IndyPL_JaredW
IndyPL_JaredW
Created on:
Jul 21, 2025
20 items
Each year has a Mental Health Awareness Month and a Suicide Prevention Month, but mental health is important all year long! If ...
3 likes
General Recommendations
Fiction Featuring Type 1 Diabetics
Created on:
May 28, 2025
15 items
In the US alone there are an estimated 2 million people living with type 1 diabetes.
This list goes out to all the fellow type...
7 likes
General Recommendations
Picture Books Which Celebrate America's Rich Cultural Diversity
By:
IndyPL_JaredW
IndyPL_JaredW
Created on:
May 01, 2025
29 items
Here are some books that touch on America as a Nation of Immigrants. These are picture books, but many are inspired by real peo...
3 likes
General Recommendations
Mysteries, Puzzles, and Escape Rooms
By:
IndyPL_JaredW
IndyPL_JaredW
Created on:
Apr 23, 2025
20 items
If you love escape rooms and solving puzzles to figure out mysteries, then you should check out these books!
On this list, yo...
1 like
General Recommendations
Bedtime Little Dinosaur
By:
IndyPL_FloS
IndyPL_FloS
Created on:
Apr 18, 2025
13 items
Books to read to your dino-obsessed little one before bedtime.
#IndyPLKids #SummerReading2025 #Dinosaurs
2 likes
General Recommendations
Twisters
By:
IndyPL_CarrieS
IndyPL_CarrieS
Created on:
Apr 11, 2025
21 items
2025 is the 100th anniversary of the Tri-state tornado that hit southern Indiana, Illinois and Missouri on March 19th, 1925 and...
4 likes
General Recommendations
Black girls at magic school
By:
IndyPL_SarahS
IndyPL_SarahS
Created on:
Apr 04, 2025
11 items
I'm defining "school" somewhat loosely, but all of these girls have awesome powers, lessons to learn, and missions to...
3 likes
General Recommendations
Winter/Spring Storytime 2025
By:
IndyPL_RyanL
IndyPL_RyanL
Created on:
Apr 03, 2025
22 items
Here are some of our selections from Irvington's Winter/Spring Storytime in 2025. #IndyPLKids
5 likes
General Recommendations
2025 Pajama Storytime in Irvington
By:
IndyPL_KatieW
IndyPL_KatieW
Created on:
Mar 08, 2025
20 items
These are the books we shared in evening storytime this year at the Irvington Branch. From soothing lullabies to hilarious adve...
2 likes
Topic Guide
Community Gardening For Kids
By:
IndyPL_SarahW
IndyPL_SarahW
Created on:
Feb 28, 2025
9 items
Spring is the perfect time to get your hands dirty and help your favorite grown-up work in your local neighborhood or community...
1 like
General Recommendations
The Prankster's Playbook: Fun and Mischief in Children's Literature
By:
IndyPL_RobinB
IndyPL_RobinB
Created on:
Feb 18, 2025
12 items
This list celebrates the joy and excitement that mischievous characters bring to children's stories. These characters often cha...
1 like
General Recommendations
We See You, We Hear You: Picture Books Featuring Immigrant and Refugee Stories
By:
IndyPL_JaredW
IndyPL_JaredW
Created on:
Feb 04, 2025
33 items
To those immigrants and refugees who live among us, I think I can speak for the majority of librarians when I say, we value you...
7 likes
General Recommendations
Here There Be Dragons
By:
IndyPL_CarrieS
IndyPL_CarrieS
Created on:
Jan 27, 2025
17 items
Picture books for all ages. Some are silly (ok, lots of them are silly) and some are sweet but all of them will delight! #Ind...
6 likes
General Recommendations
Squirmy worms
By:
IndyPL_SarahS
IndyPL_SarahS
Created on:
Jan 18, 2025
19 items
Spring is here, rain is falling, and that means the sidewalks are covered in WORMS! Don't squash our squishy friends, but do re...
2 likes
If You Liked...
Dog Man
Created on:
Jan 13, 2025
21 items
Dav Pilkey has created a bunch of readers out there with not only Dog Man, but Captain Underpants and his Cat Kid Comic series....
7 likes
Top Picks
2024 in Fifteen Teen and Children's Titles
By:
IndyPL_ShaiS
IndyPL_ShaiS
Created on:
Jan 06, 2025
15 items
Here are my top reads for 2024 that are in the Young Adult and Children's collections at IndyPL. You'll find spooky schools, po...
4 likes
General Recommendations
Birds in Winter
By:
IndyPL_FaithZ
IndyPL_FaithZ
Created on:
Dec 04, 2024
19 items
National Bird Day takes place January 5th.
This marks the end of the Christmas Bird Count (December 14th to January 5th), an a...
5 likes
General Recommendations
IndyPL Staff Picks 2024 - Best of Fiction for Kids
Created on:
Nov 25, 2024
16 items
Some of our favorite new fiction titles published for kids. At the very bottom of the list, enjoy older bonus material: st...
2 likes
General Recommendations
IndyPL Staff Picks 2024 - Best of Beginning and Early Readers for Kids
Created on:
Nov 21, 2024
11 items
Staff sent in some of their favorite 2024 books that fall into our JZ and JE category. JZ are the books for young readers that...
1 like
General Recommendations
Books for National Horse Day
By:
IndyPL_JaredW
IndyPL_JaredW
Created on:
Nov 08, 2024
25 items
This is a day celebrated in December to remember the economic, historical, and cultural contributions that horses have made.
E...
1 like
General Recommendations
Strega Nona Autumn
By:
IndyPL_KaylieD
IndyPL_KaylieD
Created on:
Oct 02, 2024
12 items
Embrace your inner Strega Nona. It's cozy season. This is a list of books that exude cozy.
#IndyPLKids
1 like
General Recommendations
Meet an Author 2024 Book Fair
By:
IndyPL_JillE
IndyPL_JillE
Created on:
Oct 02, 2024
45 items
IndyPL hosts an annual event called Meet an Author, Be an Author. One of the big features of the event is a book fair featuring...
2 likes
