Dial-a-Story: 847-232-8600
Welcome to MPPL’s Dial-a-Story! We’re here to read to you, wherever and whenever with Dial-a-Story. Call 847-232-8600 to listen to stories, jokes, songs, and more. Some items are read by your librarians, and some by other great narrators, but all have been carefully selected by library staff. Play a free pre-recorded story right from your phone, 24/7. Just call 847-232-8600 and follow the prompts to select the number of what you’d like to hear.
Our menu selections vary and change monthly, so we have created this go-to Web page for you to see what is playing during a specific month.
At the end of each selection, you will automatically be redirected to the main menu. However, if you don’t want to wait, you can press # to go to the main menu.
January 2025 Selections:
Links in this list show print, audiovisual, and electronic materials in the Mount Prospect Public Library’s collection with the same title that are available for check-out.
- Press 1 to listen to this menu in Spanish.
- Press 2 to listen to Winter Jokes, read by Miss Anne.
- Press 3 to listen to the story, Bear Has a Story to Tell by Philip C. Stead, read by Miss Laura.
- Press 4 to listen to story, Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney, read by Miss Becca.
- Press 5 to listen to the story, On a Magical Do-Nothing Day by Béatrice Alemagna, read by Miss Megan.
- Press 6 to listen to the story One Snowy Day by Diana Murray, read by Miss Sydney.
- Press 7 to listen to story, I’m Not Sleepy! !No Tengo Sueno! by Angela Dominguez, read by Miss Esli. This story is in English and Spanish.
- Press 8 to listen to the book review, Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty and illustrated by David Roberts, read by Miss Becca.
- Press 9 to listen to the book review, Does a Bulldozer have a Butt? by Derick Wilder and Illustrated by K-Fai Steele, read by Miss Becca.
