Resources for Parents

The Library offers many resources for parents, including parenting books for every stage of your child’s development, homeschooling curricula, magazines such as Parenting, and free publications such as Bay Area Parent and Parent’s Press.

Booklists for Parents:

• Adoption books - for kids
• Adoption books - for teens and parents
• Concept Picture Books:
  • Shapes
  • Colors
  • Alphabet
  • Numbers and counting
• Feeling Bullied
• First day of school
• Death and grieving books
• Loss of a pet
• Divorce books for younger kids
• Divorce books for older kids and parents
• Potty training resources for kids and parents
• New siblings

Reading Websites:

• Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters' (A KIDS COUNT Special Report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation)
• Reading Is Fundamental 
• Reading Rockets
• Literacy Begins At Home: Teach Them To Read
• Jim Trelease On Reading
• “Shining Stars” reading readiness checklists
• Ages and Stages for Caregivers: 3 Year Olds
• Ages and Stages for Caregivers: 4 year Olds
• Ages and Stages for Caregivers: 5 year Olds