Man reading to child on phone

Dial-A-Story offers free pre-recorded stories, poems, riddles, and jokes read by your favorite ASCPL Staff. Call 234.274.4400 and choose the recording you would like to hear from the menu. Stop by every month to listen to something new!

Dial-A-Story fosters a love of reading while also helping children expand their vocabulary, improve listening comprehension, and strengthen their overall reading proficiency.

Dial-A-Story Menu – recorded on 7/3/25

  • Wrong Time Rooster by Michael Parkin
  • Too Much Stuff by Emily Gravett
  • The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza by Philemon Sturges
  • How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen
  • The Girl in the Kitchen by Dan Wells from Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles edited by Jessica Burkhart

**Please note that the first four titles are children's selections and the fifth title is an adult selection.

Our Mission: The Akron-Summit County Public Library provides resources for learning and leisure, information services, meeting spaces, and programs for all ages that support, improve, and enrich individual, family, and community life.