Odd Friends — Preschool Storytime

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Have you ever been friends with a giant monster?  How about a robot or a stuffed animal?  Or a pig or a duck?  Friendship comes in all packages–even seemingly odd ones. To find the books in our library, click on the title. Stories The Pig on the Hill by John […]

Tiny Tales @ PPL: WINNING STORIES!

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We had some wonderful submissions for our Tiny Tales contest during Children’s Book Week.  Here are the winning stories from each site.  Read and enjoy! CENTRAL ALLENDALE HASTINGS HILL LAMANDA PARK LA PINTORESCA SAN RAFAEL SANTA CATALINA VILLA PARKE  

Tiny Tales @ PPL: Honorable Mentions

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We had so many wonderful entries in our Tiny Tales Contest for Children’s Book Week!  We will be posting our winning entries soon, but here are some honorable mentions.  To see a larger view of the story, just click on the image.        

Preschool Storytime – Apples

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Apples seem to cause all sorts of problems in today’s stories.  How could that be?  Well let’s start with Ragnhild Scamell’s picture book, OUCH!  Imagine you’re a hedgehog – you create the perfect nest underneath an apple tree, you step outside for a moment and PLOP, an apple falls right onto […]

Preschool Storytime: Elephants

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Storytime with elephants means BIG fun.  Today we shared some new stories about these favorite gray fellows. To find any of the items used in today’s storytime, just click on the photo of the book. Books We Shared What do you get when you cross an elephant with a helicopter?  […]

Infant Toddler Storytimes – Life on the Farm

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     In This Little Chick, little chick learns to speak various animal “languages” as she ventures forth from the farm.  The toddlers had fun learning to oink, moo, ribbit and baa along with this adventurous bird.  The story encourages participation and teaches animal identification and sounds.  Lots of fun!  The infants and toddlers […]

Shared Storytelling for Tweens

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On Saturday, November 23, the Central Library hosted a Shared Storytelling workshop for kids ages 8 -12.  We had a lot of fun making stories together in different ways. First, we started off with some exquisite corpse drawing.  Exquisite corpse was a game played by surrealist artists in the 1920s.  […]

Infant Toddler Storytimes – Thanksgiving!

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We shared a traditional Thanksgiving song, a delicious “pie” story and flannel board, said hello to fall, sang songs, enjoyed the nursery rhyme Little Jack Horner, and watched Max eat way too much stuffing in the video, Max’s Thanksgiving.  There was also a simple “turkey” take-home craft. A Song for […]