Paoli's Library of Things - Tredyffrin Township Libraries

How to Borrow a Thing:

Select a category to the right or scroll to view our full collection online.
Visit Paoli Library to view current availability. The collection is located across from the Circulation Desk.
Grab the item you’d like to borrow and bring it to the Circulation Desk to check out. For Toniebox Character Sets and Yoto Card Sets, grab the sleeve that corresponds to the set you’d like to borrow. Staff will take the sleeve from you and retrieve your set.
Borrow the item or set for one (1) week. STEM and Literacy Kits can be borrowed for two (2) weeks.
Return the item or set to the Circulation Desk at Paoli Library. Please do not put any Things in our bookdrops or return them to another library!

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Notes:

Patrons must be 18 years or older with a library card in good standing to borrow Things.
Patrons are limited to borrowing two (2) Things and up to three (3) Toniebox Character Sets or Yoto Card Sets at a time.
Things cannot be reserved in advance. They are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Things are not eligible for renewal.
Things are subject to a $25 late fine per day per item.

Audio

Toniebox
Included: Toniebox in Carrying Case and Charging Dock

Tonies Pack- Cultural
Included: 2 Tonies- Rainbow, Smokey Bear

Tonies Pack- Music Pack 1
Included: 2 Tonies- Puppy, Leopard

Tonies Pack- Music Pack 2
Included: 2 Tonies- Orange Fox, Rabbit

Tonies Pack- Myths & Folk Tales
Included: 3 Tonies- Myths Pegasus, Myths Horus, World Tales Griot

Tonies Pack- Seasonal
Included: 2 Tonies- Bat, Snowman

Tonies Pack- Sleepytime
Included: 3 Tonies- Orange Fox w/ babies, Green Fox w/ babies, Pirate

Tonies Pack- Story pack 1
Included: 3 Tonies- Dragon, Gruffalo, Hedgehog

Tonies Pack- Story pack 2
Included: 3 Tonies- Llama Mama, Llama Llama, Pete the Cat

Tonies Pack- Story pack 3

Included: 3 Tonies- Bear, LMNO, Sam I Am

Tonies Pack- Story pack 4
Included: 3 Tonies- Winnie-the-Pooh, ABC Tree, Apple w/ Caterpillar

Yoto Player
Included: Yoto in protective skin, USB cord

Yoto Cards- Ancient Adventures Collection
Included: 4 cards- Ancient Egyptians, Ancient Greeks, Ancient Romans, Pirates

Yoto Cards- Animal Stories Collection
Included: 4 cards- Brown Bear & Friends, Little Owl, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Where’s Spot

Yoto Cards- Assorted Holidays Collection
Included: 6 cards- 5-Minute Halloween Stories, 5-Minute Holiday Stories, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Stories for Diwali, Yoto Christmas Party, Pete the Cat Celebrations

Yoto Cards- Assorted Story Collections
Included: 3 cards- Food Group Collection, Nerdy Babies Collection, Who’s in your Audiobook

Yoto Cards- Baking with Yoto
Included: 5 cards- Banana Pancakes, Birthday Sheet Cake, Cheese Scones, Rainbow Cookies, Rocky Road

Yoto Cards- Bedtime Collection
Included: 3 cards- Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site, I Dream of You, Sleep Songs

Yoto Cards- Classic Story Collection
Included: 3 cards- Frog and Toad, Runny Babbit, Winnie-the Pooh

Yoto Cards- Gruffalo & Friends Collection
Included: 6 cards- Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book, The Gruffalo, Monkey Puzzle, Room on the Broom, The Smartest Giant in Town, The Snail and the Whale

Yoto Cards- Laurie Berkner Collection
Included: 3 cards- Animal Songs, Food Songs, Transportation Songs

Yoto Cards- LEGO duplo Animals Around the World
Included: 6 cards- Animal Jams, Animal Parade, Animal Rescue Adventure, Animal Riddles, Animal Sounds, Sounds Explorers

Yoto Cards- Let’s Move on Vacation
Included: 6 cards- Let’s Move At the Beach, Let’s Move At the Carnival, Let’s Move In the City, Let’s Move In the Countryside, Let’s Move In the Forest, Let’s Move In the Mountains

Yoto Cards- Llama Llama Collection 1
Included: 5 cards- Llama Llama Red Pajama, Llama Llama Mad at Mama, Llama Llama Misses Mama, Llama Llama Home with Mama, Llama Llama Gram and Grandpa

Yoto Cards- Llama Llama Collection 2
Included: 5 cards- Llama Llama and the Bully Goat, Llama Llama Loose Tooth Drama, Llama Llama Loves to Read, Llama Llama Mess Mess Mess, Llama Llama Time to Share

Yoto Cards- Love/Amour & Other Stories
Included: 3 cards- Carmela Full of Wishes, Love, Milo Imagines the World

Yoto Cards- Mindfulness Collection
Included: 3 cards- Enchanted Meditations, Mermaids and Fairy Dust Meditations, Mindfulness for Children

Yoto Cards- Music for Littles
Included: 5 cards- More Dancing Songs, Now Hear This!, Sing Through the Year, Songs for Little Pirates, Row Your Boat & other Pre-School Songs

Yoto Cards- Our Universe Pack
Included: 6 cards- EARTH!, MARS!, MOON!, OCEAN!, OUR PLANET!, SUN!

Yoto Cards- Pout-Pout Fish Collection 1
Included: 4 cards- The Pout-Pout Fish, Pout-Pout Fish Big-Big Dark, Pout-Pout Fish Can’t-Sleep Blues, Pout-Pout Fish Far Far From Home

Yoto Cards- Pout-Pout Fish Collection 2
Included: 4 cards- Not Very Merry Pout-Pout Fish, Pout-Pout Fish Bully-Bully Shark, Pout-Pout Fish Cleans up the Ocean, Pout-Pout Fish Goes to School

Yoto Cards- Representation Matters Collection
Included: 6 cards- Fry Bread, Imani’s Moon, Julian Stories, Sulwe, We are Water Protectors, 28 Days

Yoto Cards- Sesame Street Pack
Included: 3 cards- Sesame Street A Collection of First, Sesame Street Fun with Friends, Sesame Street Sleepytime Stories

Yoto Cards- World Traveler Collection
Included: 5 cards- Around the World, 5-Min. Stories from Around the World, Flags of the World, My First 100 Words, My Ten Lives

Crafting

Craft Kit- Cake Decorating
A kit designed to teach the basics of cake decorating.

Craft Kit- Embroidery
A kit designed to teach the basics of embroidery.

Craft Kit- Jewelry Making
A jewelry designed to teach the basics of jewelry making.

Craft Kit- Knitting
A kit designed to teach the basics of knitting.

Craft Kit- Soapmaking
A kit designed to teach the basics of soapmaking.

Cricut Joy Xtra Smart Cutting Machine
Included: 1 Cricut Joy Xtra Smart Cutting Machine

Literacy

Kindergarten Readiness
A kit designed to track the readiness of you child for kindergarten based on academic success in math, reading and attention skills, through play-based learning.

Included: 198 question cards, game stand, rewards coupons, 63 play money bills, score tracker and marker, 2 books (On the First Day of Kindergarten and The Night Before Kindergarten)

Learn Coding
A kit designed to help identify sequences and follow basic coding instructions.

Included: Code & Go Robot Mouse, 30 double-sided green action cards, Code & Go Robot Mouse instruction manual, Little Codr Game with 100 red cards

Learn Sign Language
A kit designed to improve communication skills by teaching a new language.

Included: 105 American Sign Language Flash Cards, 42 Sign Language Wooden Disks, and 1 book (We Can Sign!)

Learn Yoga
A kit designed to help build healthy exercise and mindfulness habits through yoga.

Included: 50 Yoga move cards and 2 books (My Daddy is a Pretzel and The Kid’s Yoga Book of Feelings)

Money Matching
A kit designed to teach the identification of U.S. currency and matching currencies with their respective amounts.

Included: 60 puzzle pieces to make 30 puzzles

Rhyming Words
A kit designed to help identify rhyming sounds and develop phonemic awareness.

Included: 10 What’s the Rhyme? Sorting Houses, 49 word cards, 2 books (Joy and Rhyming Dust Bunnies)

Sight Words
A kit designed to encourage letter recognition, spelling and reading readiness.

Included: Two sets of flashcards on large rings

U.S. Geography
A kit designed to teach the geography, history and major geographic features of the 50 states in the United States.

Included: 50 Match It! States & Capitals self correcting puzzle sets, Dry Erase Board with States and Capitals, Dry Erase Marker, 56 States & Capitals Flash Cards and 1 book (Celebrate the 50 States)

STEM

Paoli STEM Kits: Architecture
A kit designed to concepts of geometry, history and model buildings through architectural studies.

Included: ARCKIT Architectural Building Kit with 108 pieces, 1 Instruction Booklet, 1 DVD (Bill Nye Architecture), and 2 books (Cool Architecture and The Future Architect’s Handbook)

Paoli STEM Kits: Beginners Coding
A kit designed to develop critical thinking, coding skills and problem solving.

Included: Code & Go Robot Mouse Activity Set, SCRATCH coding cards, 1 book (My First Coding Book)

Paoli STEM Kits: Bones & X-rays
A kit designed to help identify and describe the functions of the skeletal system as well as the ability to explain the importance of X-rays

Included: 1 Human Body Crystal with platform and cord, 19 Human Body X-Rays, 14 Animal X-Rays, 14 Animal Pictures, 1 book (Skulls!), 1 DVD (Bill Nye Bones & Muscles)

Paoli STEM Kits: Engineering
A kit designed to strengthen fundamental math skills.

Included: Gravity Maze game, 1 book (Engineered!, 1 DVD (Bill Nye Simple Machines)

Paoli STEM Kits: Eye in the Sky
A kit designed to enable the viewing of space and to teach the identification objects therein.

Included: Telescope, 1 DVD (Bill Nye Comets & Meteors) 2 books (Nat. Geo. Kids Night Sky and 50 Things to See with a Telescope Kids)

Paoli STEM Kits: Fossils
A kit designed to teach key terms and characteristics of fossils.

Included: Fossil Collection Kit with 11 specimens and geological time scale poster, 1 DVD (Bill Nye Dinosaurs) and 2 books (Curious About Fossils and Where Do Fossils Come From?)

Paoli STEM Kits: Magnetism
A kit designed to allow the observation how magnet poles react to each other and what makes them attract or repel.

Included: Hand 2 Mind Magnetic Force Science Lab Kit with 18 tools and 1 instructional booklet, 1 DVD (Bill Nye Magnetism) 1 book (Magnets Push Magnets Pull)

Paoli STEM Kits: Math Skills
A kit designed to strengthen fundamental math skills.

Included: Proof! Mental Math Game, 1 DVD (Donald in MATHMAGIC LAND), 2 books (MathART Activity Book and Fractions in Disguise)

Tools

Dell External USB Slim DVD Drive
Included: 1 Portable Dell DVD Drive, 1 USB-C to micro USB Cord, 1 USB to micro USB Cord, 1 Quick Guide

Doxie Go SE Portable Document Scanner
Included: 1 Doxie Go SE Portable Document Scanner, 1 USB-C to micro USB Cord, 1 USB to micro USB Cord, 1 Quick Guide