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.
October 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 Halloween Jokes, read by Miss Anne.
- Press 3 to listen to the poem, The Tiger in My Belly from the book, Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess, read by Miss Becca.
- Press 4 to listen to the story, Bunso Meets a Mumu by Rev Valdez, read by Mx Cosette.
- Press 5 to listen to the poem, A Was Once An Apple by Edward Lear.
- Press 6 to listen to the story, The Story of the Pumpkin by Norma B. Carson.
- Press 7 to listen to story, Veo el Otono= I See Fall by Charles Ghigna, read by Miss Esli This story is Bilingual.
- Press 8 to listen to the book review, The Grumpy Ghost Upstairs by Mamiko Shiotani and Polly Lawson, read by Miss Becca.
- Press 9 to listen to the book review, Stitch: Reimagining Frankenstein by Pádraig Kenny, read by Miss Becca.
