The 10 Best Free Library Story Times in Summit County

The real choice here isn’t which library branch to visit — it’s matching the format to your child’s age and temperament. These sessions split cleanly into a few genuinely different types: quiet listen-and-play story times for babies or toddlers, movement-based sessions for kids who can’t sit still, a bilingual option, and one fully remote option for days you can’t get to a branch. Start with whichever category fits your child, not the calendar.

If your child is a baby (newborn to about 18 months)

Baby and Me, offered at both Draper and South Jordan, is built around songs, nursery rhymes, and play for babies with a participating adult rather than a read-aloud format — it’s designed so a baby who can’t yet sit and listen still has something to do. Tyler runs a similar session, Storytime: Baby, with one added wrinkle: it feeds directly into “Let’s Play @ the Library,” an open-play session right afterward. That combination is worth picking if your baby (or you) needs a longer visit with a built-in outlet for extra energy, rather than a single short session.

If your child is a toddler or preschooler and can sit through a story

Draper’s Toddler Time (finger plays, songs, stories, and playtime for ages roughly 1½–3) and Tyler’s Storytime: Preschool are the closest to a traditional read-aloud story time. Kearns runs a comparable general Storytime as well. Pick one of these over the baby-focused sessions once your child can actually engage with a story rather than just songs and play.

If your child needs to move, not sit

Ready, Set, Move! at South Jordan and Music and Movement at West Valley are music-and-movement sessions, not read-aloud story times — think “head, shoulders, knees and toes” rather than books. These are the better call for a kid who gets restless in a seated storytime and does better with an active format.

Related reading: The 10 Best Free Library Story Times in Davis County.

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If you need a bilingual option

Kearns’ Bilingual Storytime runs in both English and Spanish, with songs and play in both languages. None of the other nine sessions offer this, so it’s the clear pick for a bilingual household or a caregiver actively building a child’s second language.

If you can’t get to a branch

Zoom Into Bedtime Stories is the one fully remote option, run interactively over Zoom with talking, singing, reading, writing, and play. It’s the right choice when the barrier isn’t which program fits your child but simply getting to a library building at all.

If none of these categories fit, each library’s own calendar also lists additional one-off sessions beyond this regular lineup, worth checking directly if you’ve ruled out all ten above.