Youth and Family

Happy New Year! The January 2022 Central Youth Services kids zine is hobby-licious this month! Whether you like drawing or chess or making bugbots or training your Popplio or maybe something completely different, the zine has you covered. There are silly sports jokes and a hot rod school bus puzzler, t...

The December 2021 Central Youth Services kids zine has gone to the birds with crazy bird counts, silly bird jokes, egg-cellent bird facts, and a big bird puzzle! (Not that Big Bird!)

The Library is putting the fun back into kids’ Fridays.  Friday Night Family Fun resumes – in person – at the Library’s Plaza Branch in December, beginning with a fun, lively presentation by Kansas City children's musician, educator, and storyteller Dinosaur “Dino” O’Dell...

The November 2021 Central Youth Services kids zine is now available! This month with Thanksgiving coming up we're hungry for fun new food books. Inside the zine you'll find pie, pickles and no fewer than 46 pieces of pizza ... and some pretty sweet apple jokes! And if you're hankering for a puzzle...

The October 2021 Central Youth Services kids zine is now available! This boo-tiful issue invites young readers to shiver with delight at scary new books, ghastly poetry, and batty puzzles! There's also a joke that's so corny it will make your pumpkin groan.    

Enriching young minds is part of what the Library does best. But we also want to be sure that our future cardholders'... other parts are getting necessary attention, as well. In partnership with HappyBottoms, the Library is taking part in a diaper donation drive starting Septe...

The September 2021 Central Youth Services...

Do you like stories about haunted houses and supernatural encounters? The Library wants you to write your own urban myth or ghost story. If your story scares us enough, we’ll produce it into a spooky video that will feature on the ...

The August 2021 Central Youth Services kids zine is now available! This end-of-summer, back-to-school issue includes a special guest visit by Pigeon, who still wants to drive the bus! (Noooo!) There are also great whale jokes, a tricky toothpick puzzler, and a pvery pfunny ptarmigan poem.

The July 2021 CYS kids zine is now available!This is an all-fun Summer Reading specular with hot new books, a Fizz Fountain STEAM activity, mustache art, and extra jokes! No squidding! Actually, there is an item about squid. Or two. Two items about squid.