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.
December 2024 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 silly jokes read by Miss Anne.
- Press 3 to listen to the book, Pick a Pine Tree by Patricia Toht , read by Miss Sydney.
- Press 4 to listen to a clip of the book, Blizzard by Jon Rocco, read by Mister Stephen.
- Press 5 to listen to the story, Rumpelstiltskin by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm.
- Press 6 to listen to the poem, My Bed is a Boat by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Press 7 to listen to a story, Feliz Navidad, read by Miss Esli. This story is in Spanish.
- Press 8 to listen to the book review, Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic by Candace Fleming and Deena So’oteh, read by Miss Becca.
- Press 9 to listen to the book review, Go and Get with Rex David LaRochelle and illustrated by Mike Wohnoutka, read by Miss Becca.
