Something About Libby: Magazines for Kids
Make screentime count with fun and educational digital magazines through the Libby app!
Use your Plano Public Library card to digitally access hundreds of magazines for kids – no extra payments required. Once you download the magazines (over WiFi or Internet), you do not need the Internet to read them.
How to Get to Magazines for Kids
In the Libby app (or in your browser), click the three-lined hamburger menu to get to the filters:
– Sort by: choose date added (sorts newest first)
– Format: choose magazines
– Audience: choose juvenile
Then click the teal button that says “show ### titles” to refresh the page with only juvenile magazines.
What You’ll Find
Magazines on Libby can be read immediately – no wait needed. Above each title it will say “magazine series” or “magazine special” – for a series you can subscribe and automatically receive new editions. Magazine specials are one-off magazines without any regular schedule for new editions.
For kid’s magazines, topics range from space to pop culture to animals and beyond. Highlights include:
Published in partnership with Encyclopedia Britannica
Topics: space, animals, history, machines and more
Topics: sports, games, contests
Topics: history
Topics: natural life, science, technology
Highlights Hello (ages 0-2)
Builds language skills and helps parents teach little ones the joy of reading
Highlights High-Five (ages 2-6)
Stories, poems, crafts and more for beginning readers. Reinforces reading, math and other areas of learning
Highlights for Children (ages 6-12)
Fiction, non-fiction, puzzles, science experiments and more