Websites for Kids & Caregivers

AtoZ Maps Online provides a wide variety of city, state, and country maps – both current and historical. You can find climate, ecology, and topographic maps. There are historical maps and maps about empires and exploration. It even includes a section about world flags!

Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and Web sites.

With Hoopla, you can stream or download popular movies, television shows, musical albums, audiobooks, ebooks, or comic books! You can check out videos (movies & TV) for 3 days, music for 1 week, and audiobooks, ebooks, and comics for 3 weeks.

Gale OneFile High School Edition is a periodicals database designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.

Lingo LITE offers basic vocabulary training in 30 different languages, perfect for travelers and beginning language learners. Users can choose both the interface language and the language of study, and the instructional video and audio is presented by native speakers. You can also access Lingo LITE through their app, available in your smart device’s app store for free.

Watch staff from the public library and public schools read picture books on The Chelmsford Library’s TV show. Tune into Chelmsford Telemedia every evening at 7:00 pm for stories on the Educational Channels: Comcast 22 or Verizon 36. There are times that live programming may be shown rather than the stories. Tune in again the next evening, or check CTM’s online schedule.

TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book, which can also be read to you.

World Book Online is an interactive learning environment where explorers of all ages have fun while immersed in content and tools that will prepare them for a successful educational journey!

Accessing from home? Simply type in your Chelmsford Library card number and gain access to all available material!

Bedtime Math is a math enrichment site that provides a fun math fact daily with questions at different levels.

Dance Mat Typing helps you learn to type with the BBC.

PBSkids.org is a companion website for PBS shows with games and more!

Red Ted Art has a variety of fun craft and art projects for kids.

Scratch helps you learn to program your own interactive stories, games, and animations—and share your creations with others in the online community.

With PBS Kids, kids can learn to read with favorite characters like Daniel Tiger, Super Why, and more.

Reading Rockets is dedicated to helping parents understand ways to help children learn to read.

Starfall provides a fun online phonics approach to learning to read.