This program provides all caregivers (early childhood professionals and parents) with books, guided questions, and expanded learning resources to support literacy development, enhance relationships, and to make a connection with your local library.
Each year the theme changes, but the imagination guides always include the following:
- Conversation Starters
- Creative Arts
- Infant and Toddlers
- Infant/Toddler Board Book Suggestion
- Nature
- Resource Connection
- STEM Connections
2024 STEM IMAGINATION GUIDES
Adventures await when you connect storybooks and STEM!
Learning through adventures means lots of active learning experiences.
This year's STEM Imagination Guides feed young children's curiosity as they explore their library, backyard, space, and beyond!
STEM Imagination Guide
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ADVENTURES IN THE GARDEN
Up, Down, and Around
STEM Connection: Math Spatial Awareness
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ADVENTURES HERE AND THERE
This is How We Do It
STEM Connection: Sink or Float with Boats
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ADVENTURES IN OUTER SPACE
Rocket the Space Giraffe
STEM Connection: Magnet Block Rockets
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ADVENTURES IN THE LIBRARY
Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library
STEM Connection: Dragon Eggs
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ADVENTURES IN THE LIBRARY
John's Camping Adventures
STEM Connection: Tent Building
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4-H 2024 Reading Connection Resources
2024 Library Commission Theme: Adventure Begins at Your Library
Looking for engagement for school-aged children in your care? This program is available to youth development and early childhood professionals, afterschool clubs, summer school and camps, libraries, and parents. Resources provide engaging learning opportunities to spark an interest in STEM concepts and 4-H.
- Head: Adventures in Your Community
- Heart: Adventures in Gardening
- Hands: Adventures in Food Science
- Health: Adventures in the Forest
4-H Reading Connections - Archived Lessons
No endorsement of products or services by 4-H is intended or implied.
Want to request this program? Please send an e-mail to Jennifer Hansen.
"The activities engage the children. The connection between the activities and the book content is easy to grasp. These guides encourage play and the children are eager to participate."
Early Childhood Educator
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