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 9/3/25

  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
  • Boom Chicka Rock by John Archambault
  • Quack and Count by Keith Baker
  • Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd
  • Poems from Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein

**Please note that all five titles are children's selections this month.

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.