Welcome to school, kindergarten families! Our children's librarians are here to help make reading fun for you and your family.
Children's librarian and child reading a book

Tips for Family Reading 

Let your child lead 

Let them choose what you read together most of the time. Look for books that match their interests. 

Ask questions as you read 

This helps your child get involved in the story and understand it. Try asking questions that don't have right answers, like "what do you think will happen next?". Be sure to give them lots of thinking time and keep it fun.

Let them tell the story 

Ask your child to tell you the story in their own words using the pictures.

Encourage reading every day

Set a special time or place for reading. The more kids read the more they will enjoy it.

Ask a librarian

We can answer questions and help with book recommendations for your family. Call us at 604-436-5400 or email us.

Books for Kindergarten Families

These are books for Kindergarten families that you can hold in your hands. See the link at the end of the list for e-books you can borrow from home and read on a screen.
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The Song That Called Them Home Invisible Things Next Door The Three Billy Goats Gruff I Hear You, Ocean Whose Bones Are Those? Blue Bison Needs A Haircut Gib-ber-ish All Are Neighbors Phoenix Gets Greater I Am Everything in Between Let's Play! On the Trapline Fatima's Great Outdoors Puppy in My Head The Big Bath House Circle Under Berry Best Day Ever! The Circles All Around Us Stand Like A Cedar The Little Mermaid Little Blue Truck Leads the Way My Ocean Is Blue Count Your Chickens Snail Crossing The Magical Yet Gifts From Raven Treasure The Owl and the Two Rabbits The Many Colors of Harpreet Singh Tyrannosaurus Wrecks! Ocean Meets Sky The Paper Bag Princess Where Oliver Fits The Thing Lou Couldn't Do From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea Sam Sorts Lovely A Day With Yayah Peace Dancer Ada Twist, Scientist A Family Is A Family Is A Family When We Were Alone A Squiggly Story If I Had A Gryphon The Cranky Ballerina The Two Sisters Horrible Bear! One Family Interstellar Cinderella This Is Sadie The Thundermaker Sometimes I Feel Like A Fox Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt That's (not) Mine How to Grow A Friend Fox and Squirrel Make A Friend The Most Magnificent Thing Have You Heard the Nesting Bird? Wild Berries Round Is A Tortilla How to Journey Penguin on Vacation Mr. Tiger Goes Wild Rabbit's Snow Dance Larf Monday Is One Day The Three Little Pigs Picture A Tree Press Here Franklin in the Dark My Heart Is Like A Zoo Rain School Big and Small, Room for All Boo Hoo Bird The Very Hungry Caterpillar Duck! Rabbit! Wave Rhyming Dust Bunnies The Little Hummingbird My Friend Is Sad Not A Box The Twelve Dancing Princesses Red Is Best Scaredy Squirrel Miss Bindergarten Has A Wild Day in Kindergarten Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus The Dot The Feel Good Book Stella, Star of the Sea Bark, George Where the Wild Things Are A Weekend With Wendell Harold and the Purple Crayon Whistle for Willie