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EPL Picks Kids: Read In Week 2025

Get ready to READ! The annual READ IN Week literacy event takes place from October 6 - 10, 2025 and is all about sharing the love of reading with kids in Kindergarten to Grade 12. This year's theme is Books to Bytes! Here are some of Edmonton Public Library's top picks for great read-aloud stories that celebrate how reading takes many forms and how technology has become one of many tools to fuel our learning.

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  • Join Doug the robot as he unplugs and learns that cities are so much more than downloaded facts! Grades K-3.
    Book, 2016New York : Dragonfly Books, [2016] — E YAC
  • Join Rabbit, Bird, and Mouse as they encounter all kinds of robots performing all kids of tasks in this fun, rhyming non-fiction book! Grades K-3.
    Book, 2021London : Kingfisher, 2021. — E MIT
  • A boy and a robot strike up a friendship despite their differences in this simple but charming picture book. Grades K-3
    Book, 2012New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2012] — E DYC
  • When a little boy stops to show the doorman his new bot, it floats up out of his hands, and the kind doorman runs up to each floor of the building to try and catch it with the help of the building's residents. This simple story with colourful…
    Book, 2019New York, New York : Viking, [2019] — E YAN
  • Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time! Beware the Creeper combines elements from two worlds - reading and gaming - in this picture book about Sam, a newcomer to the Minecraft world, who discovers there are dangerous creepers and must…
    Book, 2022New York : Random House, [2022] — Picture books W PBK
  • It is Pearl and her robot Pascal’s last visit to the beach this summer and she is determined to finally build the perfect sandcastle! They find the perfect spot and materials and start building, and when Pearl encounters any difficulties, she…
    Book, 2018New York, New York : Viking, 2018. — E FUN
  • What exactly is a robot? How do they talk and move? And what does it take to build one? Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files is the perfect nonfiction resource for all these questions and more! Grades K-3
    Book, 2024New York : Amulet Books, 2024. — J 629.892 BEA
  • Roberto le robot a eu un accident! Avec l'aide de madame Eurêka, Max et Suzie découvrent ce que sont les circuits, les outils et les piles. Leur savoir-faire technologique sauvera-t-il Roberto? Roberto the Robot has had an accident! With the help…
    Book, 2019Toronto : Éditions Scholastic, [2019] — E French LIT
  • Charlotte has a talent for everything technological, so when she receives a doll as a present she isn't sure what to do with it at first. Doing what she does best, Charlotte uses a few spare parts and some code to create a new and improved friend!…
    Book, 2018New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — E MCC
  • Learn the difference between facts and opinions with robots in this fun non-fiction book. Grades 1-4
    Book, 2020New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2020] — J 121.4 REX
  • A fun read along about Robot - who works in a warehouse, but just can't seem to keep up with his peers. When he is sent off for reprogramming, Robot takes a wrong turn and in doing so discovers music, dancing, and best of all - ART! What will the…
    Book, 2024Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2024. — E BIE
  • Rosie Revere sees inspiration where others see rubbish, creating wonderful gadgets and gizmos - but only when no one is watching, When Rosie's great-great-aunt comes to visit, she brings with her an amazing revelation: that failure isn't something…
    Book, 2013New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2013. — E BEA
  • Oh No!

    (or, How My Science Project Destroyed the World)

    Barnett, Mac
    After winning the science fair with the giant robot she has built, a little girl realizes that there is a major problem. This picture book is sure to bring about giggles in students from K-6.
    Book, 2010New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, [2010] — E BAR
  • Ada's Ideas

    the Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer

    Robinson, Fiona, 1965-
    Ada Lovelace, born in 1815, was the daughter a poet and a mathematician. Ada embraced both of her parents passions and saw the potential for numbers to make art. As she grew older, Ada helped to program her friends new invention - the Analytical…
    Book, 2016New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2016. — J 510.92 LOV ROB
  • Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants. You won't…
    Book, 2016New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. — J BRO
  • Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet. Will…
    Book, 2022New York : Balzer + Bray, [2022] — J WAR
  • Growing up in nineteenth century London, England, Ada is curious about absolutely everything. She is obsessed with machines and with creatures that fly. She even designs her own flying laboratory! Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code is the story of a…
    Book, 2019Santa Monica, CA : Timbuktu Labs, inc., 2019. — J PUR
  • The first volume of this best-selling unofficial Minecraft adventure series begins with Runt, our 12-year-old hero, about to choose his future vocation at the Minecraftia school. His options are less than thrilling: farmer, crafter, miner. But what…
    Book, 2016Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel Pub., 2016. — Children's fiction - Series D PBK
  • In a new city, at a new school, twelve-year-old Emmy has never felt more out of tune. Things start to look up when she takes her first coding class, unexpectedly connecting with the material—and Abigail, a new friend—through a shared language:…
    Book, 2019Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019] — J LUC
  • Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school left many clues and puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. Using their wits and their growing prowess with coding, Hopper and…
    Graphic Novel, 2015New York : First Second, 2015. — J YAN v.1