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.
May 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 the Fruit and Veggie Jokes, read by Miss Anne.
- Press 3 to listen to the story, Saturday by Oge Mora, read by Miss Sydney.
- Press 4 to listen to the first chapter of the book, Legendarios: Wrath of the Rain God by Karla Arenas Valenti read by Mister Stephen.
- Press 5 to listen to the poem, Swinging by Lucy Clifford.
- Press 6 to listen to the story, The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Anderson.
- Press 7 to listen to story, La llama llama rojo pijama by Anna Dewdney, read by Miss Esli. This story is in Spanish.
- Press 8 to listen to listen to the book review, Girls to the Front: 40 Asian American Women Who Blazed a Trail by Nina Mata, read by Miss Becca.
- Press 9 to listen to the book review, Ali the Great Saves the Day by Saadia Faruqi, read by Miss Becca.
