Boston Public Library
Circulating Items
Children's Services
First Floor, Johnson Building, Central Library
617-859-2328

The following circulating material is found in the Rey Children's Room. (These materials can be checked out.)

Board Books (Cardboard books for very young children)

Picture Books  (Storybooks for young children; the words and pictures work together to tell the story)

Picture Books/CD Sets 

Big (Picture) Books  (Oversized picture books; teachers and librarians use these for storytimes)

Beginning/Easy Readers (Chapter Books for readers who are just beginning to learn to read)

Fiction Books (Stories created by a writer's imagination; also called chapter books)

Series Fiction  (A set of chapter books about the same characters or places; i.e., Goosebumps and Bailey School Kids)

Folklore & Fairy Tales (Stories from different peoples around the world about their culture's beliefs, heroes, monsters, and magic)

Nonfiction Books (Books with factual information about people, places, things, ideas)

Bilingual (Books written in both English and another language such as Spanish)

Holiday (Fiction, non-fiction and picture books about various holidays)

World Language (See the list of language collections at the Central Library)

CDs and DVDs for Children