Guides: Student-Parent and Family Resources: Library Resources

Grab & Go Kits

We know that entertaining kids can be a challenge. If you're trying to find some time to study and need to keep kids busy, come pick up a Grab & Go Kit at the Library Services Desk on the 1st Floor!

Grab & Go Kits include all sorts of goodies such as a fun squirrel craft with supplies and instructions, a UNT Libraries coloring page, crayons, a tattoo sheet and snacks!

Help Yourself Campaign

What is the Help Yourself Campaign?

The Help Yourself Campaign (HYC) connects UNT students with library resources on topics that may be difficult and stressful for individuals to learn about or discuss openly. Topics include: Food & Housing Insecurity, Mental Health, Legal Resources, Adjusting to College, Work-Life-Balance, and many more.

HYC collections can be used in information-seeking and deeper self-guided bibliotherapy. For more information, visit: Help Yourself Campaign.

Living Mindfully by Gary Heads
Call Number: BF637.M56 H43 2017eb
ISBN: 1119163250
Amigas y Amantes by Katie L. Acosta
Call Number: HQ75.53 .A28 2013eb
ISBN: 9780813561974
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Call Number: BF575.S37 B76 2010eb
ISBN: 9781592859894
Disability in Higher Education by Nancy J. Evans; Ellen M. Broido; Kirsten R. Brown; Autumn K. Wilke
Call Number: LC4813 .E83 2017eb
ISBN: 9781118415689
Reframing Reproduction by M. Nash (Editor)
Call Number: HQ766 .R377 2014eb
ISBN: 9781137267139
You Will Find Your People by Lane Moore
Call Number: BF575.F66 M66 2023eb
ISBN: 9781647007140

Books for Parents

September is National Student Parent Month

Keep an eye out for our upcoming book display on the 1st Floor!

Learn more about student-parents in higher education. Some highlights include:

The Parent Track by Christina DeRoche (Editor); Ellie D. Berger (Editor)
Call Number: LB2331.7 .P37 2017
ISBN: 9781771122412
Mothers in Academia by Mari Castañeda (Editor); Kirsten Isgro (Editor)
Call Number: LC1567 .M68 2013eb
ISBN: 0231534582
Mothering by Degrees by Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson
Call Number: LC1757 .D87 2017eb
ISBN: 9780813588452
Never Too Late by Rebecca Klein-Collins
Call Number: LC5215 .K573 2018
ISBN: 9781620973219
Back in School by A. Fiona Pearson
Call Number: LC5251 .P33 2019eb
ISBN: 9781978801912
The PhD parenthood trap: caught between work and family in academia by Kerry F. Crawford; Leah C. Windsor
Call Number: LB2332.3 .C739 2021eb
ISBN: 9781647120672

Audiobooks for Nursing Mothers

Listen to an audiobook while you multi-task! Some highlights include:

The Girl in the Garden by Melanie Wallace; Élise Arsenault (Narrated by)
Call Number: ACD 595
ISBN: 9781681683447
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr; Zach Appelman (Read by)
Call Number: ACD 406
ISBN: 9781442375420
Life of Pi by Yann Martel; Jeff Woodman (Read by); Alexander Marshall (Read by)
Call Number: ACD 79
ISBN: 1565117808
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby; Emma Fielding (Read by)
Call Number: ACD 529
ISBN: 9781611764024
Sam's Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson; Anne Heche (Read by); Jane Alexander (Read by)
Call Number: ACD 304
ISBN: 1586216325
Night of Fire by Colin Thubron; Michael Page (Read by)
Call Number: ACD 596
ISBN: 1536617113

Books for Kids

UNT Libraries has over 10,000 Juvenile Books. From classic children's books to Young Adult. You can request these for pickup through the catalog.

Some highlights include:

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown; Clement Hurd (Illustrator)
Call Number: JE B879go
ISBN: 0064430170
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry; Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
Call Number: JE C523ha
ISBN: 9780525553366
¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat by Raúl the Third (Illustrator)
Call Number: JE R245ve
ISBN: 9781328557049
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)
Call Number: JE S474w 1991
ISBN: 9780060254926
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFic S587g
ISBN: 0060256656
Soli the Dancer/Soli la balarina by Jordyn Nicole; Frances Ortiz (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFic N6425so
ISBN: 9798987480519

Family-Friendly Fun

Located on the second floor of Willis Library, The Media Library offers a variety of films--perfect for a family movie night! You can request these for pickup through the catalog. Some highlights include:

Elemental
Set in Element City, where fire, water, land, and air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted, and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.
Call Number: ELE 2023 DVD
MPAA rating: PG
Luca
Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, a young boy experiences an unforgettable summer. Luca shares his amazing adventures with his newfound friend Alberto, but their fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: they're sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface.
Call Number: LUC 2021 DVD
MPAA rating: PG
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
A Brooklyn plumber named Mario travels through the Mushroom Kingdom with a princess named Peach and an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad to find Mario's brother, Luigi, and to save the world from a ruthless fire-breathing Koopa named Bowser.
Call Number: SUP 2023 BLU
MPAA rating: PG
Monsters University
Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn't always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn't stand each other. Monsters University unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.
Call Number: MON 2013 DVD
MPAA rating: G
Chicken Little
Chicken Little causes widespread panic about the sky falling but people think it was just an acorn hitting him on the head. When a real piece of the sky lands on his head, Chicken Little and his band of misfit friends attempt to save the world without sending the town into a whole new panic.
Call Number: CHI 2005 DVD
MPAA rating: G
WALL-E
After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.
Call Number: WAL 2008 DVD
MPAA rating: G

Located on the second floor of Willis Library, The Media Library offers a variety of board games--perfect for a family game night! You can request these for pickup through the catalog. Some highlights include:

Candy Land
Each player advances along the rainbow path through the peppermint stick forest, the gingerbread plum tree and the gumdrop mountain.
Call Number: CAN 1949 GAME
Chutes and Ladders
Climb the ladder of success for good deeds and slide down the chute for naughty. Be the first player to reach square #100.
Call Number: CHU 200 GAME
Mouse Trap
Take turns building the Mouse Trap as you move around the gameboard. Use the Mouse Trap to try to capture your opponents' mice. Be the last uncaptured mouse on the gameboard to win.
Call Number: MOU 1963 GAME
Star Wars Operation
A player will acquire cards which dictate that you must remove a certain piece from the body of the patient with tweezers. Successful extractions net cash, and the player with the most cash at the end of the game is the winner.
Call Number: OPE 1965 GAME
Monopoly Junior
To be the player with the most money when another player runs out of cash!
Call Number: MON 1933 GAME
Robot Turtles
Introduces basic coding concepts to preschoolers.
Call Number: ROB 2013 GAME

Kanopy is an online video streaming service that offers easy to stream videos. From A24 collections to international films, you can stream any video available through Kanopy!

*Please note that most public libraries also offer Kanopy and have a bigger selection of films and kids programming. Contact your local library to learn more about Kanopy and what is available.

Some highlights include:

The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales
The countryside isn’t always as calm and peaceful as it’s made out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly strange: a fox who mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit who plays the stork, and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus.
Marona's Fantastic Tale
rom award-winning director Anca Damian comes the poetic and life-affirming story of Marona, an optimistic stray dog who looks back on the human companions she has loved throughout her life. Born the last in the litter, little Marona’s adventures take her through a series of names and owners – a colorful acrobat, a sensitive construction worker, and a little girl – with dazzling style, pushing animation in bold new directions.
A Town Called Panic: Double Fun
With disarming wit and hilarious visuals, this double feature revels in the simple setup of three plasticine toys sent on increasingly surreal and freewheeling adventures. Cowboy and Indian are always up to some harebrained scheme, with Horse left to clean up the mess.
Ernest and Celestine
Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer – and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn’t long before their friendship is put on trial.
Summer Days with Coo
One day, Koichi Uehara, a fourth-grader living in Tokyo, picks up a fossil that looks like a large stone while on his way home from school. To his surprise, he has picked up a baby Kappa (a Japanese mythical water creature), who has been asleep underground for the past 300 years. Koichi names this baby creature “Coo” and brings him to live with his family, and soon the two are inseparable friends.
Phantom Boy
A mysterious illness has transformed Leo into a phantom boy, able to explore the city as a ghostly apparition. He befriends Alex, a police officer injured while attempting to capture a gangster, who has taken control of the city’s power supply, causing chaos. They must form an extraordinary duo, using Leo’s phantom powers and Alex’s detective work to stop the plot and save New York from destruction.