It’s never too early or late to nurture literacy habits and a love of reading for life. Read below for our list of “Story Times for Kids in and around Dallas” to discover great opportunities for your child’s own reading adventure! Bonus :: Many story times offer crafts or activities, too!
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Click the tabs below to find story time events in each of the areas.
Please note that times are subject to change. Check the location websites for updates. Some activities require preregistration.
Arlington Public Library System
East Library and Recreation Center
- Baby Time :: ages four and under :: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.
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Cuentos Bilingüe/Bilingual Story Time :: two – four years :: Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.
George W. Hawkes Downtown Library
- Baby Time :: ages four and under :: Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m.
Ron Wright Lake Arlington Branch Library
- Family Story Time :: two – four years :: Mondays at 10:30 a.m.
- Toddler Time :: ages four and under :: Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.
Southeast Branch Library
- Family Story Time :: two – five years :: Fridays at 10:30 a.m.
Southwest Branch Library
- Music ‘n Motion Story Time :: one – four years :: Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.
Woodland West Branch Library
- Family Story Time :: two – four years :: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
- Story Time :: three – eight years :: select Fridays at 1:30 p.m.
- Preschool Story Time :: two – five years :: Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m.
Hebron & Josey Library
- Story Time :: one – five years :: Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:15 a.m.
Josey Ranch Lake Library
- Baby Time :: pre-walkers :: Wednesdays at 10:15 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
- Libros y Amigos/Books and Friends :: ages five and under :: Tuesdays at 10:15 a.m.
- Story Time :: one – five years :: Mondays at 7:00 p.m. and Tuesdays at 11:15 a.m.
Traphine Hickman Public Library
- Paws & Reading Tutors :: all ages :: second Saturdays at 12:00 p.m.
- Preschool Story Time :: three – six years :: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
- Sensory Story Time :: all ages :: Mondays at 10:00 a.m.
- Toddler Story Time :: two – three years :: Fridays at 10:30 a.m.
Cozby Library & Community Commons
- All Ages Story Time :: all ages :: Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m.
- Baby and Me Story Time :: pre-walkers :: Mondays at 11:00 a.m.
- Family Story Time :: all ages :: second Saturdays at 11:00 a.m.
- Preschool Story Time :: two – five years :: Wednesdays at 10:15 a.m.
- Toddler Time :: one – three years :: Mondays at 10:15 a.m.
Lincoln Park
- Tuesday Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Tuesdays at 11:00 a.m.
Prestonwood Center
- Story Time :: all ages :: Saturdays at 11:00 a.m.
Arcadia Park Branch Library
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Wednesdays at 2:15 p.m.
Bachman Lake Branch Library
- Bilingual Toddler Story Time :: three years and under :: Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.
Bookmarks in NorthPark Center Library
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Tuesdays and Fridays at 10:30 a.m.
Dallas West Branch Library
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.
Forest Green Branch Library
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Fridays at 10:30 a.m.
Fretz Park Branch Library
- Preschool Story Time :: three – six years :: Fridays at 3:30 p.m.
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
Grauwyler Park Branch Library
- Hora de Cuentos :: six years and under :: Mondays at 10:30 a.m.
J. Erik Jonsson Central Library
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Fridays at 10:30 a.m.
Kleberg-Rylie Branch Library
- Story Time/Hora de Cuentos :: six years and under :: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.
Lakewood Branch Library
- Stories and Songs :: all ages :: alternating Saturdays, beginning September 14, at 9:30 a.m.
Lochwood Branch Library
- Baby Basics Story Time :: zero – 18 months :: Fridays at 9:30 a.m.
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Fridays at 10:30 a.m.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Fridays at 10:30 a.m.
Mountain Creek Branch Library
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Tuesdays and Saturdays at 10:30 a.m.
North Oak Cliff Branch Library
- Bilingual Story Time/Hora de Cuentos :: six years and under :: Thursdays and Saturdays at 10:30 a.m.
Oak Lawn Branch Library
- Bilingual Pajama Story Time/Hora de Cuentos en Pijamas :: three years and under :: alternating Thursdays beginning September 12 at 6:00 p.m.
- Bilingual Story Time/Hora de Cuentos :: three years and under :: Fridays at 10:30 a.m.
Park Forest Branch Library
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.
Pleasant Grove Branch Library
- Bilingual/Spanish Story Time (Hora de Cuentos) :: six years and under :: Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.
Prairie Creek Branch Library
- Bilingual Story Time/Hora de Cuentos :: six years and under :: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
Preston Royal Branch Library
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
Renner Frankford Branch Library
- Tails and Tales: Read to a Therapy Dog :: six – 11 years :: first Sundays through November at 11:00 a.m.
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Tuesdays and Fridays at 10:30 a.m.
Skillman Southwestern Branch Library
- Toddler Storytime :: 18 months – three years :: Mondays at 10:30 a.m.
Timberglen Branch Library
- Preschool Story Time :: three – six years :: Fridays at 10:30 a.m.
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Saturdays at 10:30 a.m.
Vickery Park Branch Library
- Lil’ Bookworms: Songs & Stories :: three years and up :: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
- Bilingual Story Time :: six years and under :: Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.
White Rock Hills Branch Library
- Story Time/Hora de Cuentos :: six years and under :: Saturdays at 10:30 a.m.
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
- Story Time :: all ages :: select Saturdays at 10:30 a.m.
- Book Babies :: 18 months and under :: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.
- Reading Tails – Reading with Dogs :: all ages :: second Saturdays at 2:00 p.m.
- Read to Dogs :: all ages :: third Saturdays at 2:00 p.m.
- Babybounce :: 18 months and under :: Tuesdays at 10:15 a.m.
- Preschool Story Time :: three – seven years :: Thursdays at 10:15 a.m.
- Toddler Story Time :: one – three years :: Wednesdays at 10:15 a.m.
Grand Prairie Public Library System
Main Library Branch
- Family Story Time :: all ages :: Tuesdays at 11:00 a.m.
- Toddler Time (bilingual) :: one – three years :: Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m.
Shotwell Library Branch
- Cuentos y Cantos :: all ages :: Thursdays at 11:00 a.m.
Betty Warmack Library Branch
- Toddler Time :: one – three years :: Thursdays at 11:00 a.m.
- Children’s Story Time :: all ages :: select Saturdays at 11:30 a.m.
- ¡Cuentos en Español! :: all ages :: third and fourth Thursdays at 4:00 p.m.
- Family Story Time :: all ages :: Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m.
- Read to a Furry Friend :: all ages :: first and third Saturdays at 2:30 p.m.
- JumpstART: Stories & Art :: ages two and up :: first Thursdays at 10:00 a.m.
South Irving Library
- Baby Bookworms :: zero – prewalkers :: Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.
- Family Story Time :: all ages :: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. The first Tuesday is bilingual.
Valley Ranch Library
- Baby Bookworms :: zero – prewalkers :: Mondays at 10:30 a.m.
- Family Story Time :: all ages :: Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
- Preschool Story Time :: three – five years :: Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. The last Thursday is bilingual.
- Toddler Story Time :: one – three years :: Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
West Irving Library
- Bilingual Story Time :: all ages :: first and third Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m.
- Family Story Time :: all ages :: Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays at 11:00 a.m.
- Toddler Story Time :: one – three years :: Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
Mesquite Public Library System
Main Mesquite Library
- Library Story Time :: all ages :: Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
North Branch Mesquite Library
- Library Story Time :: all ages :: Mondays at 10:30 a.m.
- Storytime Books & Rhymes :: ages four and under :: Wednesdays and Thursdays :: times TBD
- Baby Booksit :: six weeks – 12 months :: Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.
- Baby Steps :: 12 – 24 months :: Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. and 10:40 a.m. and Fridays at 10:05 a.m. and 10:40 a.m.
- Nite! Nite! Bedtime Stories :: three – seven years :: Mondays at 7:00 p.m.
- Saturday Morning Kids at City Hall :: three – six years :: Saturdays at 10:30 a.m.
- Wiggle Worms :: two – three years :: Mondays and Thursdays at 10:00 a.m. and 10:40 a.m.
- Baby Bounce :: 18 months and under :: Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m.
- Family Story Time :: all ages :: Thursdays at 6:00 p.m.
- Preschool Story Time :: three – five years :: Thursdays at 10:00 a.m.
- Toddler Story Time :: 18 months – three years :: Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m.
