Children's Area

Welcome: Makes children feel welcome, safe, comfortable, respected and special.
Opportunities to imagine learn grow: Provides opportunities for children to explore ideas, develop skills and to learn in a fun, enriching environment, where noisy activity is expected and encouraged.
Merchandizing the Children’s Collection: Provides opportunities to merchandize the children’s collection through face-out “retail” display techniques.

Early Years Area:
Provides space for interactive early literacy designed for children 0-5 and their caregivers.
· Design is based on Early Years principles (as developed by Dr. Fraser Mustard and M. Norrie McCain)—brain development in the first three years of life predicts how a child will do academically in later life.
· Designed to support early language literacy development and sensory exploration among children.
· Helps caregivers ensure their young children enter school ready to learn by exposing them to reading and sensory stimulation at the earliest age possible through books, CDs, videos and developmental toys.

School-Age Area:
Provides a Range of Learning Environments: A place that offers a variety of environments for school-age children, from a lively area for group interaction with technology, to quiet, cozy, contemplative spaces (e.g. window seats) for quiet reading.

Collections Arranged by Category – with special destination spaces for subject categories (C3): A Land Before Time; Ancient and Medieval Times; Animals; The Arts; Business and Money Matters; Character Matters!; Computers; Facts & Trivia; Home, Family & Daily Life; How It Works; Magazines;
Lands and People; Languages and Learning; Legends and Fairy Tales; Literature; Mind and Body; People at Work; Religion; Science and Nature; Social Studies; Space: The Final Frontier; Sports, Games & Other Fun Stuff
Stranger than Fiction; What a Life! (Dinosaurs, Animals, Fairy Tales)

Study Space for School-Age Children: Provide a variety of study spaces, including areas for group study, individual study and quiet study.