March is Women’s History Month!

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  Be sure to drop by the Children’s Room or your local branch library for great books about women who have made a difference! Here are some of our picture book recommendations to commemorate this month — click the pictures to find them in our catalog!           

Infant & Toddler Storytime: Fabulous Feet!

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Today we celebrated fabulous feet at our infant and toddler storytimes! Books We Shared We began in infant storytime with C.W. Bowie’s Busy Toes for a look at all the wonderful, and sometimes unusual, things toes can do.  Next we played a guessing game with Whose Feet? by Jeannette Rowe.  […]

Infant & Toddler Storytime: Valentine Hugs and Kisses

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What better way to observe the upcoming Valentine’s Day than with a storytime! Books We Shared Animals kiss in so many different ways, and you can see many of them in Mary Murphy’s A Kiss Like This.  Parents and their little ones practiced all of them as we read the […]

Preschool Storytime: Love

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This past Saturday, we read books about love as a way of introducing Valentine’s Day!  If you’re looking for a good Valentine’s Day read for your preschooler, these are very sweet! How Do I Love You? by Leslie Kimmelman and Lisa McCue Hedgehug: A Sharp Lesson in Love by Dan […]

Infant & Toddler Storytime: Music for Winter 2014 Session

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One of the most enjoyable things about providing storytime is seeing the kids learn the different songs and rhymes we do and then begin to do them on their own.  I know a lot of parents want to check out some of the cds with the music we use for […]

Infant & Toddler Storytime: Pigs

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Today we spent storytime with our friends of the porcine persuasion — pigs!  This was a really fun storytime to do, since so many of the books offer instances for interaction. Books We Shared For infant storytime, we started things off with a wonderful book by Audrey Wood and Don […]

Infant & Toddler Storytime: Rain

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Our storytimes were so powerful this Tuesday that they actually brought rain on Thursday!  To celebrate this wet event, try reading some of these titles at home. Books We Read   In The Rainy Day Puddle, Frog loves his puddle — it’s big enough just for him.  But as the […]