Children & Families

• Place a request on items:
  • Search our online catalogue
  • Use the Library App 
  • or call us 905-372-9271 ext 6100
• The Library will call you to let you know that we have items available for you to pick up. 
• These items will be already checked out to your account, and placed in a bag with your name and due date
• All items have been isolated for 3 days (or more)

Current hours for pick-up

• Cobourg
  • Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays - 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
  • Tuesdays - 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  • Thursdays - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. 
• Bewdley
  • Wednesdays - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Gores Landing
  • Tuesdays - 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Frontier Life - A digital collection of primary sources including material from the Hudson Bay Archives and the Glenbow Archives. It is designed to enrich teaching and research, examining settlement, existence and interactions at the edge of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920.

Primary Search Main Edition - Main Edition provides access to popular full-text magazines for elementary school research.

TumbleMath - K-6 math ebook database

TeenBookCloud - Grade 7-12 ebook database

World Book Online - Fill in the form, and receive access to: Early Learning; Kids; Student; Advanced; Timelines; eBooks; Activity Corner; Discover; Dramatic Learning; Kids eLearn; Science Power; Social Studies Power; Other Languages: - Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos; Banco de Contenidos aualPlanets; L'Encyclopedie Decouverte

Join us this summer for our first all-virtual Summer Reading Challenges!

Using Beanstack, you can register you (and your family), log the items you have read (or checked out), write reviews, and complete fun activities to receive entries into draws for amazing Summer Prizes!  You can also download the App (Beanstack Tracker) to use on your mobile device.

• TD Summer Reading Challenge for Kids (ages 0 to 12)
• Teen Summer Challenge (ages 12 to 18)
• Adult Summer Checkout Challenge (ages 18 and up)

You can also join our Virtual Summer Reading Facebook group

Check out our Summer Programs page for weekly activities

Using Beanstack, this program aims to teach children about the importance and benefits of gardening on the environment. 

There will be 6 interactive and fun lessons about insects, birds, weeding and watering, trees, pollinators, and how to care for a garden while having fun!

Each lesson includes a journal prompt and activity, to have children reflect on what they've learned.

Each Monday we'll be providing an imaginative LEGO building challenge to get your creative juices flowing.

Join us by challenging yourself OR your children to create!

Remember to share your creations with us by tagging us in your photos.

#LibrariesfromHome

See our Facebook page for more details.

Try these!  

• Build your name
• Marble maze
• Something to wear
• What's cooking

• Banana Sushi
• Cinnamon Raisin French Toast
• Cookie "Pizza"

• Incredible bouncing raisins
• Magic Invisible Ink
• Magnet Maze
• Orange Fizz
• Start Seeds in a Eggshell

• Awesome Audiobooks on Libby
• Build a Family Fort
• DIY Stress Balls
• Flashlight Scavenger Hunt
• Kids Nail Salon
• Llama Cardboard Craft - Inspired by Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney. 
  Supplies: cardboard, scissors, yarn, tape, markers.  Optional - pompoms, glue
• Make a card for Mother's Day
• Nature Art
• Paper Ninja Stars
• Popsicle Stick Animals - Bird, Cat/Dog
• Robot Creation Lab
• Screen-free Saturdays - pledge, bingo, tracker
• Shark Book Mark
• Show and Tell
• Sidewalk Obstacle Course
• Teen Tote Bag
• Tips for Gardening with Kids
• Tumblebooks - Sloth at the Zoom
• Victoria Day Fireworks Craft

Join us on Mondays from 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Drop-in and visit our unique baby story time!

A 30-minute program of fun ideas you can do with your baby.

Ages 0-24 months. Families Welcome.

Join us Thursdays @ 10:00 a.m. for this relaxed social time filled with rhymes, songs, stories and a "Cup o' Tea".

This program is for infants 0 to 24 months and a caregiver or parent.

Sessions run for 10 weeks.  

Registration is required. Register online or contact the Youth Services Department 905-372-9271 ext. 6130 or email

New sessions start in September, January and April.

Are you ready for some fun?

Join us every Wednesday @ 10:30 a.m. for stories, rhymes, songs and lively activities that help promote reading readiness skills.

This is an energetic 30-minute program with a new theme each week. 

What a great way to meet other families in our community.

Drop-in classes are ongoing.

For ages 0 to 5 years with a caregiver.

Every Wednesday - All year long.

Join us Fridays 10:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. for this fun family story time. 

We explore a new theme each week.  We sing songs, make a craft & share a snack.  

Drop-in (no registration required).

For ages 0 to 5 years with a caregiver.

September to June.