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.
March 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 Spring Jokes, read by Miss Anne.
- Press 3 to listen to the story, The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires, read by Mister Stephen.
- Press 4 to listen to poem, My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Press 5 to listen to the story, The Turtle by Leo Tolstoy.
- Press 6 to listen to the story, Sweet Porridge by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
- Press 7 to listen to story, Lucia Vilar, Habla Sin Parar by Christianne Jones, read by Miss Esli. This story is in Spanish.
- Press 8 to listen to the book review, Finding Rebecca: The Forgotten Life of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, America’s First Black Female Doctor by Shani Mahiri King and illustrated by Nicole Tadgell, read by Miss Becca.
- Press 9 to listen to the book review, Katie Big and Strong: The True Story of the Mighty Woman Who Could Lift Anything by Jennifer Cooper and Jen White, read by Miss Becca.
